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6/4/2020 7:56am
I didn’t do a great job documenting my latest build but what I do have is the sweetest kx I’ve ever owned and I would like to share my progress. No bike build is ever complete And I’ve slowly been adding bits as a find them.
Enough, on with the build.
To start, one day I browsing through CL and found a pretty sweet blown up 03 kx250. So I called my dad and asked if he was down for a 8 hour round trip drive to Indian for a new project.
So 4 hours later we show up in an abandoned school parking only to witness a skeleton of a bike sitting in the bed of a beat up old truck. At this point I looked at my father an say a look of disappoint. The bike as an absolute shitbox and we were in to deep to drive away empty handed.
Long story short and $800 later we were heading back to St. Louis with a frame, boxes and trash bags full of kx250 parts.
Enough, on with the build.
To start, one day I browsing through CL and found a pretty sweet blown up 03 kx250. So I called my dad and asked if he was down for a 8 hour round trip drive to Indian for a new project.
So 4 hours later we show up in an abandoned school parking only to witness a skeleton of a bike sitting in the bed of a beat up old truck. At this point I looked at my father an say a look of disappoint. The bike as an absolute shitbox and we were in to deep to drive away empty handed.
Long story short and $800 later we were heading back to St. Louis with a frame, boxes and trash bags full of kx250 parts.
Although it’s nothing special I noticed the PC pipe had a Lusk badge. Supposedly this was a dealer option back in 03?
And the real reason why it was blow up. Looks like the bike sucked a little bit of dirt
The Shop
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Luxon 4-Post Bar Mounts
$189.95 - $239.95
I was lucky enough to find a nice set of 2012 47mm SFF forks and clamps on eBay for $350. They’re not the newer 48mm forks that I wanted but they were a good deal and already had PC internals. So I couldn’t pass on the deal.
Before I sent the frame out I noticed the steering stop was pretty hammered so I cut a few stops out of 1/4 plate, grounded the existing stop off and welded the new stop on. Since I knew I was putting a Trick Engineering stop on the bike I went ahead and cut a few mounting holes in the stop.
$50 for a local guy to sandblast the frame
$50 for shipping
$250 for plating
Don’t worry, the fingerprints wipe away with WD40
Various parts were sent to a local shop for ano. The result were sub-par but I got what I payed for. The clamps were sand blasted and cleaned. Eventually I would like to buy aftermarket clamps but the money could be used elsewhere .
The ano on the rear shock body is light in spots but most of it is hidden by the air box. I plan on having it fixed in the future but it will do for now
The radiators turned out awesome! This is a must have on every bike I own.
ended up pulling all of the bears and having a local vintage resto guy Vapor Hone a lot of the aluminum components.
Dawn and simple green attemp.
Scotch brite and aluminum cleaner.
Sand blasting left a clean raw finish but stripped all of the shine and left the surface rougher than I expected
I thought about hitting it with a scotchbrite but they’re are so many contours that I would have been over it within minutes. I’ve been looking at buffing and polishing kits for Dremels and pneumatic die/angle grinder. All of them are pretty cheap, come with different scotchbrite attachments and speed things up quite a bit over hand rubbing so, I may try that out next. I’ve even been looking at mini media tumblers also but I’ve never seen or heard of anyone using it for polishing parts.
Other pieces were dropped off at a local shop for cerakote. As seen below
Pit Row
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Once Justin got his hands on the motor he immediately noticed something wasn’t right. Both cases were cracked and a previously hack welding job was exposed after vapor honing and was in need of repair. This really put things in a stand still. The cases were deliver to a resident welding expert that was only an hour away. Three weeks later the cases were fixed and back on the bench. Unfortunately I don’t have any pictures of the repair
I also bought a bunch of aluminum bolts from IRP-llc and they’re probably the coolest thing on the bike. $250 for a full plastic kit and a full outer case bolt kit & axel nuts (m18 & m16)
Aluminum seat bolts
I’m pretty impressed with the overall look of the different finishes. I love the ProCircuit clevis, bronze cerakote, aluminum and Ti hardware along with the black anodized shock body with the red accents.
The Yz125 footpegs turned out pretty awesome. With minimal work and new Yz springs I think I have $70 in them.
The ICW braced radiators look beefy as hell and add a nice touch
Other installed items: Blue eBay hoses, factory Kaw clutch, throttle cable, radiator lovers, gas lines, carb rebuild kit, Boyesen covers, new axels with aluminum nuts. PC linkage, pivot works swingarm and linkage bearings, new chain guide and buffer, steel brake lines, billet banjo bolts
Ti bolts with aluminum washers are holding a new 304 shorty on the subframe
The new chain guide is hell tight with these sweet little m5 Ti bolts.
Out back the chain buffer is replaced and receives Ti mounting hardware. To finish out the swing arm a set pod PC axel blocks and Ti chain adjusters are installed
Just a little bit of carbon to dress up the front end
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