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Posted: 23:44 - 26 May 2014 Post subject: |
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Looks nice.
Personally, I'd run it premix. I've ran all of my 2 strokes premix. Including my DTR. Just a nail varnish bottle, empty and mark up 125ML.
Once one bike blows up due to auto lube, you'll never use it again. Mine killed my bottom and topend though... |
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Annoying rusty expansion chamber lets it down now big time!
I want to use the oil tank just to hold a litre of 2smoke oil, and fit a tap to the line that would go to the pump, so that I can measure out 125ml of oil into a dosing bottle for simpler fill ups. I just havn't found a tap yet. Ideally I could do with one that has a mounting bracket to bolt it to the frame somewhere.
I'd put a pump back on it, but don't fancy using a secondhand one and don't want to know the price of a new one! |
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This bike is the very definition of tidy ____________________ Motorsapien Art |
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Is it not brand new? ____________________ Current bike: ZX6R J1
Previous bikes: CLR 125 | GS500 | ZX6R G2 | SV650 |
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Posted: 19:50 - 28 May 2014 Post subject: |
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Sorry for massive disappoint and reduction of man points, but It's really a 1986 D-plate bike, and I can't have a project thread, as a bloke who know's his shit built and restored it for a small fortune.
I brought it all shiny and put on a new seat and a couple of stickers, so massive fail for me, but the previous owner should be very chuffed with what they achieved IMO!
I often wonder is it as good a bike as say a new WR125R or Reiju Marathon Pro etc? I think despite clean 4stroke engines with a touch less zap, the suspension componenty and ergonomics has improved a lot with modern trailie 125's!
I was about 8 when my KMX was built, which I find amusing but to an 8year old in the 80's it would have probably been pretty cool I reckon! |
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Posted: 19:52 - 28 May 2014 Post subject: |
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I want your bike. It looks great! |
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I'd have that over any Brand new 125 on the market today!!
Looks awesome ____________________ Current: Gsxr 600 Srad - GS125 - DT125
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Posted: 01:04 - 31 May 2014 Post subject: |
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I think the White colour scheme was just from 86-87, and then they offered green, Red, and Blue versions for the A/B2-4 models. I remember a lad used to ride past me and my mate on a White one like mine back in 1990-91 when we were walking to school, so they're a bit of extra nostalgia in white for me.
Yes some folk really don't like trail bikes, especially if they have only ever ridden them on the road, as they are almost as compromised as a raked out custom chopper in some ways.
I'd like to take out a new Yamaha WR125 or a trick Rieju Pro 125 trail bike just to see what they are like TBH.
I think however the only new 125 that I'd swap the KMX for would be one of these very trick Fantic 125's
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I think the KMX looks better with std wheel sizes TBH.
But a KMX special with different/longer front forks maybe, would then make a decent enough street supermoto, especially as a 200cc, as it would be able to make use of the extra grip and braking a bit more.
Been through the whole re-build/restore/modify the 200, a million times in my head over the years, but in truth I could never get it to have a good a level of finish and paintwork as this 125 no matter what I did or spent, and I doubt I have the skills to make it look as smart as the 125.
I also wouldn't get much for the 125, a 2year old WR125R would fetch/cost more to buy. The only idea that appeals with the 200 now is to strip and clean it all, replace the worn mechanicals and throw it back together with the scuffed plastics etc, to make a road legal green laner/for getting dirty and muddy.
It'd be a nice contrast to how I have to treat this one, and should cost £££'s not ££££'s that a special, supermoto, or full restoration would.
The other factor is that I'm starting to save up again for my next big road bike and in 2years time I'd like to have a nice Yamaha VMX1200 ready for proper longer distance road trips/touring etc. |
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Thats a point, but i was thinking that with a breather pipe in the tank, the flow rate would be about the same at holding a washing up liquid bottle up side down with the top cut off?
I could always modify the bottom of the tank to take a fitting for a bigger hose, either 8mm or 10mm, so that i can use common push fit connectors/tap etc?
IMO it seems silly for me to retain the tank, and not use it to store oil, and being a 1.2litre tank, it would last many fill ups.
The price for a new oil pump is over £130 and I'd need new cables, injector pipe work, and the 2-1junction box, and id lose the nice light throttle action, so pre-mix is here to stay i think! |
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gorgeous bike, makes me miss mine, though it wasn't anywhere near that good
shame about the shite brakes though ____________________ killa wrote: Im an ass man myself |
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Looks nice enough, do they run the sportman class for Supermoto in the UK? I heard that's what the Yanks call supermotos with front tyres bigger than rear ones ____________________ Motorsapien Art |
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Old Thread Alert!
The last post was made 9 years, 279 days ago. Instead of replying here, would creating a new thread be more useful? |
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