Spotted an advert on Rob Koopman's RG500 for sale list that really caught my attention. Instead of the normal plethora of RG500 frames, RGV conversions, and people requesting RG500 engines, someone was offering something different. An RG500 engine already in an RS250 frame.

I phoned the chap who was selling it, instantly knew I wanted the bike. He sent me some photos and I was convinced. After all I was just about to head into buying a knackered donor bike, potentially refreshing a tired engine, converting a TZ250 frame - this had the main work done. Why not save some budget for finishing the prject rather than blowing it all on the donor and initial conversion? A quick phone call to my understanding (and very pregnant wife), some compromises later (you know the normal ones us blokes always end up making to wives when they have you over a barrel), and I was back on the phone to the seller.

A deal was struck and a deposit despatched via a mate who lived near the seller - cheers Fozzy!

You know I mentioned my wife's pregnant with our first child! Well this causes issue number one. I can't travel at the moment to pick up the bike. Sue's due anytime soon, and I simply cannot spend a day away from home just in case child number one decides that that particular day is the day. So I needed an alternative. Good old Fozzy offers to pick up and deliver the bikes, spares, and associated bits and bobs in his van, and drop them into me at home first week in October as he's travelling down to Cambridge that weekend. Can't say fairer than that. Besides, his incentive is I've just sold him my Supermotard at a steal of a price for his troubles.

So I wait with baited breath at the arrival of the bike.