Steel sleeve cr250 cylinder

[DesertCR]

Found a good deal on cr250 cylinder (03) but the thing has a steel sleeve in it. Anyone have any experience with theses, I know CR500's arent plated but how does a newer cr250 steel cylinder run? I dont want to buy the thing and end up having to sell it.

[100hp honda]

must of trashed the alloy bore at some point in time. dont see no other reason for the sleeve. whats your question ?

[DesertCR]

Well, do they run hotter, leaner, reliability? I mean the bike is designed to run on a nikasil clylinder not steel. Basically will the bike run as good and reliable as with the stock cylinder?

[100hp honda]

i never sleeved a plated cylinder so i dont know. millenium says on their site to never sleeve a plated cylinder for several reasons. glen says theres some yahoo at LA sleeve that says its good to sleeve them. got 4 plated bikes, i would never sleeve them with iron. actually wanting to put alloy sleeve and plating in the cr500 if i ever get around to it.

read this if you want. 3/4 down the page
http://mt-llc.com/About/faq.html

[2strokeforever]

nikasil is way better in every way, unless your running nitrous and blowing it up all the time, then its easier to rebore than replate