Honda cg 125 cafe racer/scrambler

[Alan215]

Hello I brought a Honda cg 125 last week as I was board and wanted something to do so decided to turn it into a cafe racer/scrambler and I’m looking for a few parts eg headlight bracket front peg bar and nobbly tires as cannot find anywhere anyone doing the same or getting rid of anything
Thanks
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Alan215

[stinkwheel]

So is it going to be a cafe racer, or a scrambler? Two almost exactly opposite styles of bike.

Sit down, look at the bike you have, look at some reference pictures of bikes you like the look of, decide what you want, think about how it's possible within the chassis you have, then make it happen. This will avoid you making a dogs dinner.

Can I beg you before you start to NOT lead with angle grinding the rear subframe and lugs off the frame until you have thought of the structural consequences of doing so. If in doubt, ask someone.

It's easier to work around existing frame fittings than to chop them off then realise they were either structurally necessary or useful. Keep any brackets or captive nuts until you are absolutely sure they are redundant... And even then, if they aren't in the way, just keep them, you might decide you want them at a future date.

There have been some horriffic frame chops posted on here recently that were not only badly done but actively dangerous. Don't be that guy.

Is the footpeg bar missing? If I remember rightly, it bolts to the underside of the engine on a CG125? Is all well with the bolt holes before you start.?

Also consider a cafe racer would often have rearsets so you don't land up looking like a shitting frog when you ride it. Rearsets can be improvised on the likes of a CG125 relatively easily by welding/clamping on footpeg brackets further back then flipping the gearchange to face backwards and modifying a brake lever.

A scrambler would normally have folding footpegs, ridgid ones are a liability.
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[Alan215]

Hello this is the look I am going for it is just a project to go to and from work which is about a mile away the pages originally the bike has been dropped and one side of the peg has been welded on badly so was just going to change them
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Alan215

[MarJay]

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[Alan215]

If all u guys are just here to take the piss why not go somewhere else with all the other people joined here to get some help didn’t know it was full of piss takers I’ll go join another forum for grown ups
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Alan215

[martin734]

[Riejufixing]

[Easy-X]

One would think that the mature thing to do with a bike is buy better tyres and/or suspension so it handles better.

Sacrificing handling for looks - style over substance - seems like something a kid would do... #JustSayin'
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[MarJay]

You're not special nor particularly imaginative. We get very close to your exact post on a weekly if not daily basis now. Most of the time it just ends up with junked 125's going to the scrapper because either people lose interest, or make cuts they shouldn't be making to their bike. The ones which do get finished are invariably deathtraps waiting to happen.

the fact you said cafe racer/scrambler does tend to give away that you don't really know what you want, and when you don't know what you want and you embark on a project like this, you invariably don't end up with something that is good at the end of it. This is not piss taking, this is hard learned experience.

A scrambler is not going to be a better bike. A 'good' cafe racer is possible, but why start with a CG125? Why not try a restoration?

If it doesn't make any sense, we're going to say it doesn't make any sense. That's the risk you take when you post things on the internet, you might get opinions that you don't like in return. In this case most of the opinion on here is informed by years of experience (over 20 in my case).

But, after all that you still want to go ahead? Please do. Just don't be surprised if your 'project' ends up going to the scrap man.
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[chickenstrip]

I think the term "cafe racer" has become almost a knee jerk thing. Everybody talks about building a cafe racer (usually seems to mean one of those cheap and nasty seat units on cut down subframe tubes) because...well, because everybody talks about building a cafe racer. One problem. NO ONE KNOWS WHAT A FUCKIN CAFE RACER IS ANYMORE!
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[Nobby the Bastard]

If it doesn't have clipons bolted to the fork legs below the top yoke so low that your knees are forced to stick out at 90 degrees from the bike it's not a cafe racer.
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[chickenstrip]

[MarJay]

[chickenstrip]

[Riejufixing]

[Bhud]

I would say a cafe racer, done well and properly, is just a wet dream unless you have a lot of experience or a lot of engineering knowledge or both (e.g. Allen Millyard's SS100, SS180 and SS250 hit the mark on both the aesthetic these guys are after and on the high power-to-weight ratio). If you're starting off with a CG125, an angle grinder and Ebay, you will waste a good bike. If it's a kid who thinks he's smart, and can palm off a structurally compromised, rough-running, unrideable and unsafe hack job to dreamers at a profit, that's not clever. What's clever would be to restore the bike and in the process pick up some knowledge which will come in useful later down the road when you're, say, setting up the suspension on your R8T.

[CorriganJ]

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[CorriganJ]

[stinkwheel]

Be different. Do a full concorse restoration.

The way things are going, you'll be totally unique, it'll be the only stock-standard CG125 in the country.

There should be a plentiful supply of airboxes, side covers, standard handlebars and front mudguards.
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I did the 2010 Round Britain Rally on my 350 Bullet. 89 landmarks, 3 months, 9,500 miles.

[Nobby the Bastard]

I had a mate who had an ap50 and he'd turned what looked like ace bars upside down and back to front so he could tuck right down over the front.

The trouble was he was 6'5 so he looked like a galleon in full sail....
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[A100man]

[Easy-X]

[Kentol750]

Is that flounce a new record?

(Another fucking cg125 ruined)
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