Odd Import: 1983 Honda MVX250F

In the world of import two strokes, you may be intimately familiar with RGs, NSRs, RZs and the like. What you don’t hear much about is the MVX. One of the oddities of the popcorn set, the MVX represents Honda’s engineering might coupled with a healthy dose of experimentalism. Unlike the RD/RZ/RG set with parallel…

Funky Chicken: 1983 Honda MVX250F

Up for grabs today is a very strange, Japanese market two stroke. Looking to have been imported straight from Japan (although this model was also exported to Australia and New Zealand), the MVX250F is a V-3 two stroke with, uh, character. With the front two cylinders laying horizontally and the rear cylinder standing up, this…

Honda NS250R

Available in Seattle, Washington is the precursor to the NSR250, the NS250R.  From an astute reader, Terry C., we have learned that “This is an NS250R, the precursor to the NSR.  The MVX 250F was the precursor to this bike…The MVX is a V3 with cast iron barrels and the NS 250R is Honda’s first…