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Chalky.
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PostPosted: 16:47 - 16 Dec 2016    Post subject: What bike is this? Reply with quote

https://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o22/fv53wkr/977BC6FE-A00C-4540-9B54-AE734163ED75_zpsiiqakot7.jpg

Mate needs a new exhaust for his bike, any idea what this is?

From memory it's on an N plate, obviously a Honda.

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PostPosted: 16:51 - 16 Dec 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote

Looks like an XL125R to me.

My first thought was mid to late 80s, C-F reg ish.
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PostPosted: 16:56 - 16 Dec 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote

Shaft wrote:
Looks like an XL125R to me.

My first thought was mid to late 80s, C-F reg ish.


Yup pretty sure that's it, cheers pal Thumbs Up Karma
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PostPosted: 17:06 - 16 Dec 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote

It looks like an XL125S, it's definitely not a 125R, because it's got twin shocks! (I should know, I've got a 125R!)
Good luck finding a new or secondhand exhaust, for a reasonable price, they're not easy to find.
The only, reasonably priced, new silencer were "Marving", sold by Wemoto. You can find "Marving" exhausts on Ebay, the price varies compared to Wemoto, so worth a look!
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PostPosted: 17:17 - 16 Dec 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote

Looks older than a mid 80s XL.

They introduced the Pro-Link suspension in'82.
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PostPosted: 17:17 - 16 Dec 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote

007 wrote:
xls125 had one back in 87.


When you were minus 12 years old?
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PostPosted: 17:27 - 16 Dec 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote

Was that pic taken on the set of Peaky Blinders?
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PostPosted: 17:30 - 16 Dec 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote

XL125S:-

https://i1018.photobucket.com/albums/af305/Airoyster/cid_4B54389A-8D32-4691-8DF4-5697-1.jpg

XL125RC:-

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Nv2T7VJSsqM/maxresdefault.jpg
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PostPosted: 17:38 - 16 Dec 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'm pretty sure it's a stolen bike.
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PostPosted: 17:57 - 16 Dec 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote

007 wrote:
Tracey Suntan-King wrote:
Was that pic taken on the set of Peaky Blinders?

Get out this is man talk.


So what are you doing here?
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PostPosted: 19:04 - 16 Dec 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote

Honda TLR200 maybe?

Definitely looks like a trials bike, and it's not an RTL 250 or TLM 200.
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PostPosted: 19:23 - 16 Dec 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote

stevo as b4 wrote:
Honda TLR200 maybe?

Definitely looks like a trials bike, and it's not an RTL 250 or TLM 200.


Actually, now I've had a chance to look at it properly, I reckon this is closer.

Pegs closer to the seat than an XL (look how bent the rider's legs are, unless he's 8' 6") relatively short travel forks and the way the tank runs into the side panels.

Unless of course it's a bitza.
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PostPosted: 20:09 - 16 Dec 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote

Could be this, 1983 Honda TL125 DJ (EU model):-

https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-arjDANoOl8I/Tb7WSNcemnI/AAAAAAAAA2A/2vyYk7cmQlY/s1600/Honda1984_TL125+Bleue.jpg

The frame downtube in the OP's picture, appears to be square section as opposed to round on the XL, has the same fairing as well.
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PostPosted: 09:59 - 18 Dec 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote

Rogerborg wrote:
I'm pretty sure it's a stolen bike.


My first thought, why would someone not know what bike they own? Confused
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PostPosted: 12:30 - 18 Dec 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote

rapt0r1997 wrote:
Rogerborg wrote:
I'm pretty sure it's a stolen bike.

My first thought, why would someone not know what bike they own? Confused

No mate, legit mate, bought it for real money mate, VIN just got knocked off against a rock, mate.
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PostPosted: 12:50 - 18 Dec 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote

Rogerborg wrote:

No mate, legit mate, bought it for real money mate, VIN just got knocked off against a rock, mate.


The paperwork? Oh that's the dog, swear mate. Very Happy
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PostPosted: 13:07 - 18 Dec 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote

As its nearly chrissmuss I'll say it ain't not nicked nor nuffin
The flat tyres and weeds in the wheels suggest a barn find
It appears the cam end cover is missing so I reckon it may have been put away and forgotten about for some time

If the N plate is relevant, that's 1974 or 1994 isnt it?
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PostPosted: 19:42 - 18 Dec 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote

I would say its a TLR200.

Plenty of pipes on eBay.
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PostPosted: 20:19 - 18 Dec 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'd say TL125
School-boy Trials regs limited youths to 125's.
Plenty sold in the 80's 'un-registered', as 'plant' saving vehicle taxes and dodging C&U reg's that they often wouldn't meet, lacking leccy horns & stuff. Hence not unusual for Comp-Trials to lack no-plate, V5 or VIN tag; essentially they were sold like a ride on lawn mower or cement mixer, not a motorbike.

Try Sammy Miller Spares for pipe & plastics; they used to support the rock-hoppas rather better than either Honda or Dave Silvers, though Jim Sandifords were the 'official Montesa-Honda importers for a lot of the rock hoppas.
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PostPosted: 20:24 - 18 Dec 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote

Teflon-Mike wrote:
I'd say TL125
School-boy Trials regs limited youths to 125's.
Plenty sold in the 80's 'un-registered', as 'plant' saving vehicle taxes and dodging C&U reg's that they often wouldn't meet, lacking leccy horns & stuff. Hence not unusual for Comp-Trials to lack no-plate, V5 or VIN tag; essentially they were sold like a ride on lawn mower or cement mixer, not a motorbike.

Try Sammy Miller Spares for pipe & plastics; they used to support the rock-hoppas rather better than either Honda or Dave Silvers, though Jim Sandifords were the 'official Montesa-Honda importers for a lot of the rock hoppas.


That makes some sort of sense - though surely it's (presumably) registered and the owner would have a V5 now?
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PostPosted: 13:42 - 19 Dec 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'll be up there this weekend to check exactly what it is, wanted to get the pipe before Christmas though, hence asking.

Looks like it'll be about £300 so might just get one off an old CB/CG and make it fit.

It was bought new when one of the farm workers lost his license drink driving so he could get to work across the fields, then for general work. Been sat in one of the sheds for about 20 years but got it going a few weeks back.

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