Worrying things you find.

[Kickstart]

Hi

I have been given an NS125F, and was sorting through the bits today working out what I need to get.

One of the bags had a clutch lever in it.

https://www.alfa-pages.co.uk/TempPicture/NsLever1.jpg

which has some slightly suspicious insulation tape over it. Taking that off revealed:-

https://www.alfa-pages.co.uk/TempPicture/NsLever2.jpg

the remains of a tin can, and then:-

https://www.alfa-pages.co.uk/TempPicture/NsLever3.jpg

Worrying what people will do. At least it wasn't a brake lever.

All the best

Keith
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[Paddy Blake]

That was just a idiot who did that.
Just goes to show one mans darwinism could be past to someone else had
you not check it out.

Paddy.

[finpos]

To be fair, Halfords were selling a "get you home repair kit" containing similar components for the fat end of 20 British pounds a few short years a go...

f.

[st3v3]

My clutch lever is currently snagged like that,(but I wouldn't cover it up) another reason it failed MOT That one, what's it like? what you gonna do with it? (If I can ask..)
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[Paddy Blake]

[Kickstart]

Hi

It is a bike a friend bought 13 years ago to learn to ride on (I went to look at it with him). It was last on the road 11 years ago when he blew the engine up (with a full tank of petrol, which smells like white spirit now).

Needs a hell of a lot of work. Bodywork is all there but is also all tatty (it is an F rather than an R). Barrel has been bored out and a cast iron liner fitted with a new piston, but a couple of the head studs are stripped. There is a spare bottom end and a spare head. Swinging arm has a small dink on the right but there is a spare swinging arm (which ironically I gave him ages ago as I had it floating around spare, has my address from 19 years ago on the parcel). The forks are corroded. The radiator is bodged on (top mounts on the rad are broken).

Nothing major but fairly expensive. Forks should be easy enough (Wemoto want ~£120 for a pair of fork stanchions, not much different from the price of rechroming). Might powder coat the frame (the frame is a lot better than I thought, but might be worth sorting that out now).

Financially it is not worth doing, but I probably will do it.

All the best

Keith
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[st3v3]

Well it would be nice to see one restored to it's former glory, if not even wholly, any chance of any an pics sometime....?

Saying that, would be bloody expensive but right now on Ebay there's a few spares going, Cept that rear shocker which may well be mine soon. *goes to check on it*
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[Kickstart]

Hi

Will sort some pics out.

Think I will do the mechanical work and then just keep an eye out for bodywork in the future. What is there would work but has been bodged so not really worth spending money having it resprayed.

All the best

Keith
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[hmmmnz]

thats not too bad
i had a stick and some insulation tape on my clutch lever, a rim tha was bent straight-ish with a bit of log and the gear lever connected to another stick so i could change gear by hand (with out clutch) as i couldn't move my foot enough after a crash out on the old xr in the middle of the wops
fun times
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Wiring Diagrams BIDNIP it bitches

[st3v3]

Pah, with that much spare it's really easy to use the clutch lever.
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[Louise]

My old exhaust for the Cagiva was held on by a coke can wrapped around it

[Kickstart]

Hi

[st3v3]

Thanks for that Keith, stunned at how immaculate the condition of the burgundy one is, seems like you've acquired more bits for it in a week than I could in a month.

Plus, the number plate holders all snap after a while, all on the bit just under the edge of the light lense. I just got me the bike's second one that I know of. The only thing I'm short of is a rear brake lever(not scrounging for one lol) tho I have had to cancel my test due to numptys on Ebay not supplying bits I asked for on time and had to re-start my car lessons. Hope you have more look in progress than I seem to get.
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[Kickstart]

[Kickstart]

Hi

Sorted out a list of the part numbers I need.

Cannot find a part numbers for a couple of the stickers. Neither the "Made In Italy" sticker nor the little E mark sticker.

Speedo might be an issue. I was going to put the trip reset knob from the damaged clocks onto this original set but when someone has bodged it with a self tapper they have trashed the dowl from the reset knob into the clocks. Option might be a set of new clocks, but that is £70 I would rather not spend.

All the best

Keith
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[st3v3]

Thanks for that, knew there was NSR parts there but not NS.

As for the clocks, In Ebay shops there was one for sale for a few month for £25 but whether it's worth it to you... can't find linky now, will look later on when I have the time if you want.
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[Kickstart]

Hi

There are a cheap set of clocks on there now. But £15 postage for some old clocks is a bit much. And they would certainly at best only be of use to cannibalise for spare parts.

All the best

Keith
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[virus]

on the gsx4 i found the starter motor live feed to be held together with a plaster, not even a twist in the wires either just put next to each other and covered in a shitty plaster....


Cheers
John
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owned: 85 rat CG (sold), 91 GS500e (stolen), 84 gsx400f (scrapped), 81 z250 (siezed, siezed, scrapped), 83 cb250rs (sold), 84 gpz750r ratfighter (killed) 84gpz400 (sold), '80 cb650 ratfighter (wrote off) 95gsx6/12f ratfighter (killed) 91 xj900 (sold)
stinkwheel Well I just had my hands up a pigs fanny. Which makes your concerns pale into insignificance.

[st3v3]

Just a thought, if you mentioned a centre stand somewhere then I found a cheap one..https://cgi.ebay.co.uk/HONDA-NS125-R-CENTRE-STAND_W0QQitemZ270183622328QQihZ017QQcategoryZ10460QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

When you say the fairings are not so good....

If you have one spare, hows the lower front, and how about the plastic bit that goes above the rear light?

Just they're hard to find, if you've got some scrap one somewhere I have some filler and some pennies..... If not, never mind but thanks.
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[Kickstart]

Hi

What seems to have worn (on both of the) is just the bush that goes through the frame and the centre stand. Groove worn on one side of it.

The one I am sorting out is an unfaired one. Original plastics have been bodged with filler in the past, plus painted metallic maroon. Rear panels I have decent replacements from the crashed NS125R, but there are a few trim pieces I need and a bellypan is needed.

All the best

Keith
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[Philious]

My old mtx used to have a rubber seal to hold the exhaust back box onto the expansion chamber.

When this disintegrated I popped into homebase and bought a curtain rail.

Did the trick
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[st3v3]

No worries.
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