The Bikeshite Thread

[Guest Hooli]

This thread reminds me. Must order lots of parts & send my forks off to get rechromed. I need my GSX14 back on the road next year, I'm sick of cars every day.

[plasticvandan]

Good news is that after my off last week the MZ is now fixed and back on the road,just needed footrest,rear indicator and headlamp

I'm now thinking of replacing it with an older maxi scooter of some sort,my legs are getting worse and I could do with something a bit more cossetting for commuting on.

[DodgeRover]

I used to work with someone who always commuted on a bike, as he got older he swapped to a variety of bigger scooters, he used to have a big foot muff his legs went into to keep him warm when it turned proper bitter. Looked ludicrous but worked perfectly,

[Jerzy Woking]

 

Been looking for a two stroke sportsbikes, but prices of LC's, RS's and RGV's are (to me at least) unjustifiable. I missed the boat there.

 

So I now have this - full ground up rebuild of chassis and engine, 34 bhp, and it feels big for a 125. Still need to run it it for a few more hundred miles, and can't wait for that to be done, ring - a - ding -ding

[srad34]

That Mito looks great in yeller, used to have a Mk1 Mito back in the day, it was a lot of fun, 7 speed gearbox and mental revs!

[PiperCub]

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Been looking for a two stroke sportsbikes, but prices of LC's, RS's and RGV's are (to me at least) unjustifiable. I missed the boat there.

 

So I now have this - full ground up rebuild of chassis and engine, 34 bhp, and it feels big for a 125. Still need to run it it for a few more hundred miles, and can't wait for that to be done, ring - a - ding -ding

 

True about LC's - they've been pricey for quite a while - even projects and as a long time (25 years FFS!) LC owner myself, I'd advise against an incomplete/project bike as cosmetic/chassis spares are pretty expensive and hard to come by nowadays, engine/mechanical bits are easier to get. TDR's (the TZR's trailie-type cousin) come up now and again and don't command the prices of LC's but same rules apply. 

 

RGV's can be found reasonably cheap but there's a reason for that, spares are even harder to get, more expensive and the engines are pretty fragile and don't have a long life even if well treated. Same thing goes for KR1-S's.

 

Good luck with the Aprilia, they are nice things, rode a derestricted one years ago, felt nearly as quick as my YPVS! I don't care what people say, there's nothing quite like a properly set up two-stroke.

[They_all_do_that_sir]

The wee Aprilia RS125 are a class bit of kit. One to watch as I think prices will only go one way, they are still mega cheap at the minute but thinning in numbers

 

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[Fabergé Greggs]

2 stroke allllll the way!

 

Would love to try one of these wee things

[srad34]

The yellow bikes a Cagiva Mito Mk2, not an aprilia

[Jerzy Woking]

Should have said it is a Cagiva Mito (6 speed though). My nephew has the Planet I bought from Wuvvum, which he has just rebuilt. My great niece has an RS 125, my great nephew a Mito as well as a rare 50cc Aprilia Extrema ( single sided swing arm - very trick thing). Looking forward to going out with them all in the spring and laying down a haze of expensive two stroke oil exhaust.

These bikes have meant my other nephew has been shamed into digging his LC250 out of his garage after 15 years and into getting that sorted - the parts he needed he found fairly easily. It's a very early LC, tatty but all original, matching engine and frame numbers seem to make it worth far more than it actually is (in my view)-but thats nostalgia for you.

 

I've got a bit of money put aside for a new bike, but will probably start looking to buy non shagged out RS 125's, Mito's and Planets now. Simple to work on, spares not that hard to come by, and have probably bottomed out value wise now. Even if I don't make any money on them, I'll enjoy them.

 

And Jackytwoshoes - you are welcome to have a go when I bring it into London (when it's 15c warmer that is)

 

Time to move the CZ250 on now too - hateful thing!

[xtriple]

I  had a RS125 that I took in P/X on a 'big' bike. It was the usual tatty poor old thing that had been thrashed to death by its young owner. so, in a fit of remorse and an effort to make ammends for my youthful fuck ups, I restored it... proper like! Really easy to do and looked a treat afterwards. I de-restricted it as a matter of course but had never actually ridden it.

 

First ride was on the way to the MOT station which provided three insights: 1 it was going to fail as the fancy rear shock had zero damping even though it looked brand new, 2, the clutch slipped when given the berries, and 3, by fuck it was fast, handled really well (even with the horrible shock) had brakes that would stop an articulated lorry in a second and was all round an excellent little hoot.

 

New clutch, new standard shock and a new front disc (the MOT man said it was below maximum thickness, it wasn't he was just a Neanderthal that couldn't read a micrometer... and even tried to fail the new one for the same reason) and sold it for MEGA coin.

 

I have always loved 2 strokes, from my Kawasaki S2 through my KH 250, various 350 LCs, the odd 400 Yam, and culminating in an RD 500 ad later an RGV 250 with banana swingarm both of which  I loved and adored and wish I had kept. My last strokers were my Greeves twin trials/Yamaha IT465 and two more different bikes you could never imagine. Both brilliant and lots of fun, just one that tried to kill you every other second. That Greeves was proper pokey

[Jerzy Woking]

I  had a RS125 that I took in P/X on a 'big' bikearen't ruinous expensiveIT465 he usual tatty poor old thing that had been thrashed to death by its young owner. so, in a fit of remorse and an effort to make ammends for my youthful fuck ups, I restored it... proper like! Really easy to do and looked a treat afterwards. I de-restricted it as a matter of course but had never actually ridden it.

 

First ride was on the way to the MOT station which provided three insights: 1 it was going to fail as the fancy rear shock had zero damping even though it looked brand new, 2, the clutch slipped when given the berries, and 3, by fuck it was fast, handled really well (even with the horrible shock) had brakes that would stop an articulated lorry in a second and was all round an excellent little hoot.

 

New clutch, new standard shock and a new front disc (the MOT man said it was below maximum thickness, it wasn't he was just a Neanderthal that couldn't read a micrometer... and even tried to fail the new one for the same reason) and sold it for MEGA coin.

 

I have always loved 2 strokes, from my Kawasaki S2 through my KH 250, various 350 LCs, the odd 400 Yam, and culminating in an RD 500 ad later an RGV 250 with banana swingarm both of which  I loved and adored and wish I had kept. My last strokers were my Greeves twin trials/Yamaha IT465 and two more different bikes you could never imagine. Both brilliant and lots of fun, just one that tried to kill you every other second. That Greeves was proper pokey

 

Agreed, two strokes are great and Italian 125's are easy to work on, spares are available and arent ruinously expensive to rebuild. LC's were great 25 years ago, but not sure how one would compare to, say, 

a new Honda CB500.

 

I recently rode a Suzuki PE 250 (or was it a 325?) which was ok, but no match for a KTM 250. I once was pillion on an IT425, and the memory of that still scares me today, as do the prices they now fetch too.

[Frogchod]

Time to move the CZ250 on now too - hateful thing!

Tell me more

Pics, location price ?

[hairnet]

*points

 

laughs*

 

if you need help............

[andy18s]

Agreed, two strokes are great and Italian 125's are easy to work on, spares are available and arent ruinously expensive to rebuild. LC's were great 25 years ago, but not sure how one would compare to, say,

a new Honda CB500.

 

I recently rode a Suzuki PE 250 (or was it a 325?) which was ok, but no match for a KTM 250. I once was pillion on an IT425, and the memory of that still scares me today, as do the prices they now fetch too.

Used to love my 2 stroke days

The last I owned was a Yam TDR250,mental little thing that was

although a mate at the time had an original homegrown super moto CR500........and that was just epic up to around 90

[UltraWomble]

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/dvsa-sets-out-proposals-to-improve-motorcycle-training

 

Fuxake - just educate SMIDSY's

[strangeangel]

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/dvsa-sets-out-proposals-to-improve-motorcycle-training

 

Fuxake - just educate SMIDSY's

 

Agreed - the only change I'd make to the (already over-complicated) bike testing regime would be to stop people taking unlimited CBTs. No road user should be allowed to proceed on L-plates in perpetuity IMO.

[LostnotFound]

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/dvsa-sets-out-proposals-to-improve-motorcycle-training

 

Fuxake - just educate SMIDSY's

 

When would any changes come in? I really need to pass my test sooner rather than later, for all the hours spent on my 125 I picked up for practice, the fact only 15 mins has been riding and the rest fixing probably won't come up on module 1.

[Jerzy Woking]

Tell me more

Pics, location price ?

 

 

It's a 1983 (A registration) CZ 250 Custom (theirtake on a cafe racer) but it is minus the cockpit fairing. Runs ok but puffs smoke from the leaking head gaskets - not fitted the new ones I have yet (cost all of 60p each). Previous owner told me he had rebuilt the engine with all new bearings (but only have his word for that). 

 

No photos at the moment as its buried at the back of the garage. SORN'd  and MOT expired. Not sure about price as trying to recall what it cost me when I bought it.

[hairnet]

37 francs

 

not woking

[Frogchod]

I had to google the CZ250 custom.... Hells teeth, it's piggin' ugly.

I'm still interested

I've previous with shite like this, including an MZ ES250, a Jawa 350 combo and a CZ125 bought

brand spanking new coz it was cheaper than running a CBX1000 as a daily.

Traded the CBX and the CZ in for an XBR500....

It didn't stay a 500 for long, Mr Cosworth forced me to make it a 626 Lumpy cam and BFO amal carb followed soon after

I'm waffling.... Pastis again...

[UltraWomble]

Can I interest anyone in a Boat?

125cc MOT July 2017

£375 firm. Or swapsies + beer vouchers your way if you have one of those Chinese Dax copies

[Jerzy Woking]

 

Definitely weird-with the gear lever doubling as the kick start, hardly a contender for a café racer with rear sets.

 

I bought this to go down to Czech Republic to meet up with my mates there in May, but took a 125cc scooter instead. Sort of lost interest in it after getting a new battery and a good seat for it, and then some odd bits and pieces for it (which were extremely cheap). Have too many bikes now, and I must get the Monet sorted before spring........

 

Not my photos by the way-these were the ones that were posted on the ad by the seller. It will now have a layer of dust on it.

[Jerzy Woking]

And you won't get it to do this:

 

[hairnet]

Omg

[Frogchod]

Kickstart/gearlever also opperates the clutch.

So.

How many euros ?

[They_all_do_that_sir]

Kickstart/gearlever also opperates the clutch.

So.

How many euros ?

My JAWA 350 had that arrangement. Actually quite a nice thing to ride with

 

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[andy18s]

Just appeared on my wall...

[strangeangel]

^^^ Fuck, no. Buy Jerzy's CZ, but not that!

[strangeangel]

The mega-cheap Aprilia is holding up surprisingly well as it hacks it's way through the winter salt, however it developed an intermittent misfire a couple of days ago. There's plenty of fuel, and there's an inline filter, so I thought I'd check the spark situation before cleaning the carb.

 

The plug looked OK, but when I checked if the cap was properly screwed into the HT lead it just turned, and wouldn't tighten or loosen. So, engaging Primate Mode, I tugged it and off it came, shedding the resistor and other small parts. New one ordered (£6), hopefully that'll see it right!