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Edited Date/Time
9/10/2012 8:43am
I've been looking for a 125 for a little while now. i've been looking mostly at YZ's, because there are plenty of them available and they're cheap (and reliable) and RM's, because I've always had a Suzuki. I have tried to trade my 2010 RM-Z for them, but no-one wanted to pay the difference. It just so happens that I was trying to sell my Yamaha XS 400 street bike also, and I noticed that someone wanted to trade a 2008 RM125 for a two cylinder old Japanese street bike. I called the guy and after a week he agreed to do the trade.
Me and my buddy packed the XS into his boxvan and drove 600km (~400miles) to do the trade. The bike was as the guy said and we traded bikes and I got my very first two stroke!
I started motocross relatively late (at 24 years of age) 5 years ago and my first bike was a used -06 RM-Z 450 that I bought together with my little brother. My next bike was a used -07 RM-Z 450 with a Athena 490cc big bore kit! After that I bought a brand new 2010 RM-Z 450, so I've never had small bore bike or a 2-stroke. Lately I haven't been able to ride very much (11-monts old baby girl!!
) and the 450 is killing me. I've tried my brothers' 250f and it just doesn't do it for me. I've also tried a 250 2-stroke and that is just way too much bike for me, so the idea of getting a 125 seemed to be the right one for me. And now I got one!!
So here she is:
And there she is with my thumper in the background
I'm not going to do a full scale rebuild as many here have done, I'm just going to ride her as hard as I can!!
I just went through it. The previous owner was maybe a little bit out of it, he said that it has winter settings in the carb and that's why it runs rich. I opened the carb and it was in stock jetting
I then put the forks and shock to factory settings. The forks were interesting, the left side compression was fully closed and the right side fully open! 
The rebounds were fully closed. The shock was way of also and the guy was 20kg (~40pounds) heavier than me and the sag was 120mm for me without my riding gear on!
I did a short test run in our yard and the bike ran perfect! Can wait to get her to the track!
BTW, do you think that thread title will get me into trouble with your government?
Me and my buddy packed the XS into his boxvan and drove 600km (~400miles) to do the trade. The bike was as the guy said and we traded bikes and I got my very first two stroke!
I started motocross relatively late (at 24 years of age) 5 years ago and my first bike was a used -06 RM-Z 450 that I bought together with my little brother. My next bike was a used -07 RM-Z 450 with a Athena 490cc big bore kit! After that I bought a brand new 2010 RM-Z 450, so I've never had small bore bike or a 2-stroke. Lately I haven't been able to ride very much (11-monts old baby girl!!
) and the 450 is killing me. I've tried my brothers' 250f and it just doesn't do it for me. I've also tried a 250 2-stroke and that is just way too much bike for me, so the idea of getting a 125 seemed to be the right one for me. And now I got one!!So here she is:
And there she is with my thumper in the background
I'm not going to do a full scale rebuild as many here have done, I'm just going to ride her as hard as I can!!
I just went through it. The previous owner was maybe a little bit out of it, he said that it has winter settings in the carb and that's why it runs rich. I opened the carb and it was in stock jetting
I then put the forks and shock to factory settings. The forks were interesting, the left side compression was fully closed and the right side fully open!
The rebounds were fully closed. The shock was way of also and the guy was 20kg (~40pounds) heavier than me and the sag was 120mm for me without my riding gear on!
I did a short test run in our yard and the bike ran perfect! Can wait to get her to the track!
BTW, do you think that thread title will get me into trouble with your government?
Just do ONE little thing for me, ok? If you aren't going to tear it down and rebuild, at least remove the Monster graphics. They are awful.
Have fun on the bike!
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I also agree with the other guys - ditch those Monster graphics ASAP.
I´m not going to remove the graphics even though they´re not to my liking either. I´ve never been much into how a dirt bike looks but more into how it works so I have no intention of using money for a graphics kit! If find some for free, then I just might do it
I read about the sparkplug on the internet and I´m going to use the special plug just to be safe. I still have to change the tyres and adjust the sag before I take her to the track. It looks like I´m going to have to wait untill next weekend though
bikes only go as fast as you twist the throttle
http://www.vitalmx.com/forums/Motodrive/Old-School-Moto,22
And for the fun and fundamentals, thats what I got the 125 for now!
I clocked a few laps on a full scale motocross track. I did 2.22 on the 125 and 2.20 on the 450, so not a big difference. My little brother did 2.17 on his 250f and 2.18 on my 125.
Yesterday we were on a private supercross-style track that was a bit muddy. It was hard to keep the 125 on the pipe without spinning the rear wheel too much. After a good day of riding on the 125 I hopped on the 450. That thing has so much traction and torque it was so easy to ride on the slippery stuff and all the jumps were so easy to clear. In those conditions the 450 was easily many seconds a lap faster than the 125 even though the lap times were close to the one minute mark.
Couple of pics from yesterday:
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