The Wonderful WK 125 RR

[Derrick The Diva]

Hello everyone! So I'd like to layout what I've been through in the last year...

Last year it was the last day of our local 'bike night' and unfortunately for me, there was a guy going around laying down oil slicks for people to fall off and crash.

It was a wet evening and bike night just finished, I went down to our seafront to do a final ride to go home when there was a guy at the zebra crossing, walking up to it and walking away from it. My back brake felt odd so I had to use my front, with are dual calipered and can stop my bike seriously in a few seconds to no prevail the entire bike catapulted itself into an endo, launching my off to dislocate my knee-cap with me sliding down past it with it somehow flying over me and landing on my legs again. It was bloody painful! The guy who was at the zebra crossing legged it and was no-where to be seen.

8 months later! I finally fixed it, put it all back together, had it look absolutely lovely, new tank paint job, everything was fine! On the first day back on it I went out for a 10 hour ride and was absolutely over the moon. The next day my bike's sparkplug tip fell off as I forgot to even look at it and I was stuck, I managed to get it home and I parked it just outside in my car park, safely tucked away from my gate. I went inside for 2 minutes and I came to it with a car just leaving the car park with it smashed to absolutely smithereens. Every single bit was damaged on the right side and someone fled, it was obviously hit with some speed; accident or not.

So I was left with this yet again, heap of bike in my garden. But I don't want to just leave it. I've just got a job again in which I'm saving up to do my A2 and buy a new bike, but my local bike night starts and I don't think I'll be able to do it all before summer ends. So I thought I might as well get this one back on the road so I can still enjoy summer to keep me occupied on saving for something new!

I have a few issues, this bike was fully faired but now I don't want to use the main ones, they're all cracked, the headlight cowl is smashed and I'd rather let me old man fix it as he's just got out of his knee operation with nothing to do. So, I'm in a bit of a pickle, I've got a few friends with little streetfighter hyosungs so I thought I'd be different and have someone like that, as no one would expect it.

The WK 125 RR is actually really lovely, just you have to maintain it a lot to keep up the reliability, it's honestly the size of a CBR 600 RR and it's been sat next to one, everyone thinks it's a huge bike.

What I want to do is find a new street-fighter type headlight for it, it's a simple 4 pin connector which I'll provide in pictures, It's also got a destroyed right hand switch, with a 2 pin brake light switch (I can't remember the proper names) and a 7 pin connector. I'm finding it very hard to actually find one and I'd thought I'd ask for help.

I don't care about looks, I'll make it look lovely in the end, I just want it back to have a good summer blast with my other mates on their bikes. It's an amazing bike where you can actually get your knee down without worrying about having tires the size of a little 125 and it's quite pokey in the low end. It spits it bangs and it sounds gorgeous.

If you guys can help me I'll be over the moon to get my bike back so then I can customize my Honda 250 Superdream and show off the work here.

Thank you very much guys and I hope you can help me out!

[arry]

Sorry, in the wall-o-text I can't work out what you're actually asking? A TL;DR version appreciated.

Anyway, in short - it's needing bits, and the bits are going to cost money. It appears the bike isn't worth more than a few hundred quid in its current state and one that works is a bag-o-sand ish (I might be wrong, I'm no WK expert) if you wanted to stick to what you know. So in short, is it worth fixing? Probably not.....

Either cut losses and go off and buy something working, or stick with WK, buy another one same and use your current one for spares for when something invariably goes wrong again (damage or reliability related).

That'd be what I'd do, anyway.

[Derrick The Diva]

[Rogerborg]

'kin hell, Derrick. Is this your question?

[arry]

[Derrick The Diva]

[Fizzoid]

[B5234FT]

You wont find a match for the connectors, so simply cut them off and replace with something you can match up.

For a headlight, go used, on ebay. Anything big and single like and ER5 will do. or even new if you feel like it:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Clear-Headlight-KAWASAKI-ER-5-500-TWISTER-ER-6-N-ER650A-/152455124892?hash=item237f08979c:g:RqsAAOSw4CFY50dA

Headlights like that take H4 bulbs which have three pins, dip, main and earth. Not sure what your 4th pin will be for unless you have sidelights.

You'll need to make brackets for whatever you buy, or buy some universal ones which clamp to the forks.

For the right hand switch, I assume you mean the switchgear mounted to the throttle? Again, Id be finding something common and used which fits the same bar size and swapping them, but that relies on understanding what needs to be switched how. Some time with a multimeter will figure it out.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1999-YAMAHA-FZS-FAZER-600-599CC-MOTORCYCLE-RIGHT-SIDE-GEAR-SWITCH-START-SWITCH-/162347195363?hash=item25cca59be3:g:iHwAAOSw241Ybm~e

You need to check if the brake switch works with a meter and if so, you can just rewire it, if not, you may have to replace the lever and master cylinder if a replacement switch is that hard to come by.

I'd guess someone competent with vehicle electrics would have it done in a couple of evenings for <£100 in parts.

[Rogerborg]

When OP rides an A2 training bike.

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