Suzuki RM250A 1976 - Tony Odonnell

This is my 1976 Suzuki RM250A. My dad bought the bike right off the showroom floor in 1976 and started racing two weeks later. My dad raced for one year before going to college, getting married, and having kids. He raced mostly desert with a few motocross race. This is a low hour bike as we recently took the top end off in preparation of get the bike up and running and the cylinder still had the original honing. We cleaned the new carburetor and put gas into the aluminum tank and it started on the first kick. The only things that I had to replace were the cables they were frozen, the carburetor the rats used the carburetor as there bathroom (did not know how corrosive rat urine was to aluminum, and the rear wheel I was able to purchase one off of eBay and it was from a same year and model bike as our.