Another one saved from certain death.

Racerx930
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Edited Date/Time 1/19/2012 11:44pm
Man I still act just like a little kid every time I find something like this.

This one was about to be put to grave when I found it. The funny thing is it has compression and spark, the damn thing might run! I think I'm going to have to restore it and call it the junk yard dog. One good thing about these early 125's is there's not that many parts on them!

I have a ton of 76-78 CR125 parts if anyone would want to trade some of them for the obvious missing goodies for this thing. I do have a new pro form pipe I had put back for my mini elsinore project I will use on it.
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lumpy790 4/28/2011 12:46pm
4/28/2011 12:46pm
Great find!

I think I had the same seat on a 250
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newmann 4/28/2011 3:09pm
4/28/2011 3:09pm
Sorry, I apologize for laughing my ass off at the site of that bike. My reason.....I've started with some worse than that! I'm glad I'm not the only one who feels the need to save all the old crap. Best part is it still has the rear fender loop! Guessing the next thing you tell us is the ID # block isn't chunked off the left case half from chain derailment??? You'd have to go buy a lottery if that's the case.
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Racerx930 4/28/2011 3:50pm
4/28/2011 3:50pm
Looked all over for you at Diamond Don's Joe!

Unfortunately the ID blocks long gone. Going to build a rider out of it so not that worried.

Found several spots on the framed today though that are going to need welded. Also found out my pro form pipe I thought was for an early 74-75 125m is for a 76-78
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Racerx930 4/28/2011 3:51pm
4/28/2011 3:51pm
oh and btw, it runs lol.

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karterron 4/28/2011 4:28pm
4/28/2011 4:28pm
You guy's are good at spotting finds. I looked at that pic and wondered why you didn't put it out of it's misery and let it die.
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jimmie 4/28/2011 6:03pm
4/28/2011 6:03pm
Racerx930 wrote:
oh and btw, it runs lol.
NOT...
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Racerx930 4/28/2011 6:22pm
4/28/2011 6:22pm
Cleaned the carburetor, put fresh gas on it, started in 2 kicks.
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pomster 5/11/2011 2:41pm
5/11/2011 2:41pm
You guys are so so lucky when it comes to this, bikes and parts for twinshocks are scarce to say the least over here in the uk. You'd be surprised at how often the bikes are advertised .... FRESH IN FROM THE USA You can always tell, your yamahas are yellow where as Europes are white, but i'm sure you guys know that already. Yamahas seem to be the most popular.
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PN27416 5/12/2011 4:49am
5/12/2011 4:49am
Nice score!

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