Very nice 74 CR125 I helped restore.

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I did the repair and refinishing on the tank, fenders and numper plates on this one for a friend in New Jersey about eight years ago. I hooked him up with a bunch of misc. little parts to make the restoration correct down to the last detail. Even tracked down brand new correct Bridgestone tires for it that had been sitting in a warehouse squashed flat at the bottom of a stack of tires for the past thirty some odd years. He showed it in some bike shows around the area and it ended up being purchased to be a part of the Dave Mungenast collection in Missouri where it sits on display. Sweet bike for the early CR lovers.

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neverwasfastenuf 10/3/2011 9:48am
10/3/2011 9:48am
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I did the repair and refinishing on the tank, fenders and numper plates on this one for a friend in New Jersey about eight years ago...
I did the repair and refinishing on the tank, fenders and numper plates on this one for a friend in New Jersey about eight years ago. I hooked him up with a bunch of misc. little parts to make the restoration correct down to the last detail. Even tracked down brand new correct Bridgestone tires for it that had been sitting in a warehouse squashed flat at the bottom of a stack of tires for the past thirty some odd years. He showed it in some bike shows around the area and it ended up being purchased to be a part of the Dave Mungenast collection in Missouri where it sits on display. Sweet bike for the early CR lovers.

Sweet bike indeed. What are your plans for the 06 RM 250 you picked up? Any chance of you wanting to adopt an oldtimer "kid".
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NetMXer 10/3/2011 9:54am
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Looks great.
I like the little MR50 on the left. I wonder if that's the one that was purchased at VMD last year. Marple Motors built it and had a custom down pipe and fiberglass side panels. I based my MR50 restore on that one. Of course I don't have the custom down pipe on mine but I did track down a replica DG pipe for it.
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newmann 10/3/2011 9:59am
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neverwasfastenuf wrote:
Sweet bike indeed. What are your plans for the 06 RM 250 you picked up? Any chance of you wanting to adopt an oldtimer "kid".
Not me with the 06 RM250. Adopt? Can you clean air filters???Smile

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newmann 10/3/2011 10:00am
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NetMXer wrote:
Looks great. I like the little MR50 on the left. I wonder if that's the one that was purchased at VMD last year. Marple Motors built...
Looks great.
I like the little MR50 on the left. I wonder if that's the one that was purchased at VMD last year. Marple Motors built it and had a custom down pipe and fiberglass side panels. I based my MR50 restore on that one. Of course I don't have the custom down pipe on mine but I did track down a replica DG pipe for it.
I think that MR and the CR250M above the 125 were purchased as a set if I'm not mistaken. I only helped out with the 125 though.
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rg4 10/3/2011 10:19am
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Holy smokes!!!! That is a sweet collection.
neverwasfastenuf 10/3/2011 10:51am
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neverwasfastenuf wrote:
Sweet bike indeed. What are your plans for the 06 RM 250 you picked up? Any chance of you wanting to adopt an oldtimer "kid".
newmann wrote:
Not me with the 06 RM250. Adopt? Can you clean air filters???Smile
My mistake on the RM, it was another guy in a thread with your bikes pictured. I can clean those filters but only got the practice because I could never could get anyone else to do mine.

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