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Tempted by one purely for the craic and to see how long it would last.
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Nope, looks like a reverse shifter. Seen them on crusiers before. So you can "heel down" to change up.
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Can't believe no-one has mentioned the fact it has the world's best name. Love a bit of Yamasaki  |
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Why do the Chinese have no imagination 
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Tribsa - Mongrel created from the best bits of the BSA and Triumph model ranges
Norvin - Mongrel created from putting Vincent 1000cc V-Twin engine into Norton Feather-Bed Frame
TRITON - The immortal marriage of a Triumph 650 twin-carb engine, fitted with racing amals, high compresion pistons, hot cams and open pipes..... to the legendary, lugless hearth brazed, McCandles designed Norton Feather-Bed frame, fitted with Norton 'Road-Holder Forks' and for a touch of italian pezaz, Grimeca multi leading shoe drum brake hubs...... 
Yamma-Gamma - The aluminium cradle frame from a pre 'V' Suzuki RG250, light and sweeit handling but prone to blowing up; fitted in fristration with an RD350 YPVS engine for more power and better reliability
YAMAZAKI - oh..... what wonderful confection of exotic Yamaha and Kawasaki parts is this going to be? Its an R1 with a ZZR1400 engine? This has GOT to be something good!
https://i.ebayimg.com/t/BRAND-NEW-YAMASAKI-YM125-Commuter-Chinese-copy-CG125-IN-THE-CRATE-/00/$(KGrHqQOKo8E24we0y9NBN18gYw-Gg~~_35.JPG
Oh!
Its a HONDA CG copy!
When I first came accross this 'Brand' I had SUCH expectations dashed!
Heel & toe shift, like a C90. They are ACTUALLY quite 'nice' to use once you get used to them, aparently!
Unfortunately I have NEVER got used to them! I got my eldest a C50 for his 16th, and I had some fun trying to get used to it; but in the end I gave up, and shifted it with my heel like I would on a trials bike! Yeah, not as in using my heel on the reverse end of the lever and the front end, but using my heel to kick it up or down on the front end! (common on comp trials bikes; they used to shift the pegs back for better balence, but leave the levers where they were; you dont shift mid section very often, and means you cant accidentally knock it into neutral, so still common to have big reach between peg and lever even on factory comp-trials)
Just had a look at the small print AND seen the seller.
ROGER! You said no-one did this any more! 
Yup, you aren't buying a 'motorbike', you are buying a crate of motorbike parts, that you may use as you wish... if you choose to build a complete working motorcycle from them, and then try and register if for the road, you do get a 'reciept' to say that all bits are 'new' and that it conforms to the design spec of a recognised 'model' so you can register it as new and gain new vehicle MOT exemption for three years... so the old 'kit-bike' tax dodge I worn of.
Riders of Yeoville..... thats the seller. And I have to give them credit, unlike many who 'hide' the kit-bike tax dodge in the small-print and big up the cheapness of the bike, and trying to make it sound like its ACTUALLY a genuine Yamaha YBR or CG with a different badge on it..... Riders HAVE been pretty upfront and transparent about that, and do say "No WARRANTY" beyond broken or defective parts when you unpack it.
I have bought bits from Riders, they do a lot of Jailing parts for the CB125's, and I have to say that they have been pretty straight and very helpful in thier dealings with me; and being upfront about what they are flogging.... yeah, its a cheap and chitty chinky copy CG, sold 'in crate'...... and £600!
Sting is, thats in the crate collected. Add £70 for tax and registration, and possibly another £120 for delivery to your door, it's taken a lot of shine of the bargain; pushing the £800 mark 'On The Road'.... after you have struggled with the instructions to put it together.
I so often say, if you know enought about Chinks to live with one, you wouldn't buy one..... and I think that this holds.....
BUT? £600? - If I didn't have it delivered, and knowing a 'thing or two' about how to put them together 'properly' actually getting chink in the crate might save having to take pre-built one to bits to put it together 'properly' as well as save a few pence! For cheap 'Hack', with no expectations, remembering this is a the Bic Disposeable Biro of the biking world......
No... your right...
BUT? £600?
That's a very tempting number to make you REALLY think about one, isn't it!
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| Triton Thrasher wrote: | | Teflon-Mike wrote: | the legendary, lugless hearth brazed, McCandles designed Norton Feather-Bed frame, |
It was notable at the time, that the McCandless-designed "Featherbed" frame, unlike most frames, was not hearth brazed. |
Wasn't it? I thought that was main thing that made them light, not having lugs, but in not having lugs, to stop one joint cracking through expansion & contraction as local heat was applied to do another joint, whole frame had to be got up to cherry in a 'hearth' all joints done at the same time?
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You know what's funny though, using that fucker for a year and throwing it away after would still be cheaper than the depreciation on those new shitty plastic fantastic 125cc sports bikes |
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| Posted: 18:27 - 28 Dec 2012 Post subject: |
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its a copy of the CG125 I have.
https://ttvnol.vcmedia.vn/images/56597/-liton-road_1331788370.jpg
And the heel and toe shifter was good for me because it was the first time I ever rode gears and Neutral sits at the bottom instead of between one and two - just makes sense as a novice (also CAN anyone tell me why they put neutral where they do?)
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£595 
If I had a kid just learning to ride I would be so tempted to get one of those. I'm an engineer and experienced looking after my own bikes. I recon I could keep that going till they passed their test and then sell it for a few quid.
Put it this way, if you can get this for £595 it doesn't bode well for UW to get much for his 125.
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