Fast Freddie’s 500

Game changing Honda

but on the corporate chests, cards close to their for always played their as they prepared Honda Racing have guessing had the world’s press season they really run up to the 1985 titles. 250 and 500ccworld to challenge for both Freddie Spencer

Hend with a little joke at the onda enjoyed themselves Prix the expense of the Grand of the 1984 season at the 250Vdisguise the fact that press corps. Eager to to Spencer was bidding twin on which Freddie the 500ccworld titles in ever to win 250c and become the first man of the reed-valvev4 fact a direct derivative same season was in of the piston-port a factory team version NSR500, rather than racer. RS250R production any was usual, strictly discourage Not only did they, as a fairing, but they of the machine without unauthorised viewing suchlike. In W in PR hand-outs and also labelled it the RS250R- or W stood for ‘What?’ not to figure that the retrospect, it’s hard because in due course ‘Works’ as claimed, ‘Wind-up’ rather than the designation that and the bike accorded the truth was revealed, done NSR250. But to have internally all along: Honda had given it cat out of the bag. on would have let the that publicly that early FS250, because if have labelled it the They might just as well with a single rider, that indelibly associated ever a motorcycle was wonder one of the four Freddie Spencer. No first NSR250 was with office in Shreveport, sits today in his home machines constructed built, and indeed this is the bike that Freddie Louisiana, because by factory test riders, of Japanese outings except for a couple an NSR250 in 1985. nobody else ever raced perfection, the bike did its job to As history now records, 10 GPS he contested, victory in seven of the carrying Spencer to slightest in Spain proving the with only a broken exhaust finishes taking conservative wet weather mechanical frailty, with races. care of the other two

BECAUSE IF EVER HAVE LABELLED IT THE FS250, “THEY MIGHT JUST AS WELL RIDER, THAT ASSOCIATED WITH A SINGLE A MOTORCYCLE WAS INDELIBLY FIRST NSR250 WAS.”