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Since it's a little slow nowadays in our little dirt bike world and since I have some free time, I decided to work on my second project bike... Here are some progress photos...
Bought this 2000 YZ125 for $1200 while I was doing my first project bike, the 2003 YZ250...
The idea was to build it kinda like the bike I raced in 1998 in the West Coast series...
I got most of the parts vapor blasted. Found some similar old school blue Applied triple clamps on eBay. Got the frame powder coated using a powder called Illusion Smurf. The Bentley Blue powder is good too but I went with the lighter color.
KE3 Restoration vapor blasted my engine parts. Legacy Carbon made me a custom ignition cover. My buddy Thomas, replica bike builder extraordinaire, built the engine. New cylinder, top end. Hinson provided a full clutch setup.
Lately, I've gathered most of the parts and decided yesterday to start building it. Forks are stock. Lowers were coated by SGB Racing. Uppers were provided by Thomas. They were Josh Hansen's upper tubes from when he raced at YoT back in 03 or 04... Subframe is stock, just vaporblasted to remove the blue paint.
I made a little mod on the brake line. Got rid of the long stock brake line. Used a shorter 250f line, bought a little guide on eBay and bolted it on the fork guard just like the factory bikes in the early 2000s
I did 2 building sessions yesterday. The 2nd one ended at 1:30am and that's where I am at now. I'm waiting on a carbon tank which I hope I'll eventually get... I still have to bleed the brakes, work on graphics, build a carbon fiber silencer. I have the canister and got an old FMF shorty silencer on eBay that I need to refurb. Gotta order a few OEM parts I don't have.
The graphics ERA Moto Co worked on a while back to match my 1998 ones. Still not finalized, we still need to add the companies that supported the build...
Bought this 2000 YZ125 for $1200 while I was doing my first project bike, the 2003 YZ250...
The idea was to build it kinda like the bike I raced in 1998 in the West Coast series...
I got most of the parts vapor blasted. Found some similar old school blue Applied triple clamps on eBay. Got the frame powder coated using a powder called Illusion Smurf. The Bentley Blue powder is good too but I went with the lighter color.
KE3 Restoration vapor blasted my engine parts. Legacy Carbon made me a custom ignition cover. My buddy Thomas, replica bike builder extraordinaire, built the engine. New cylinder, top end. Hinson provided a full clutch setup.
Lately, I've gathered most of the parts and decided yesterday to start building it. Forks are stock. Lowers were coated by SGB Racing. Uppers were provided by Thomas. They were Josh Hansen's upper tubes from when he raced at YoT back in 03 or 04... Subframe is stock, just vaporblasted to remove the blue paint.
I made a little mod on the brake line. Got rid of the long stock brake line. Used a shorter 250f line, bought a little guide on eBay and bolted it on the fork guard just like the factory bikes in the early 2000s
I did 2 building sessions yesterday. The 2nd one ended at 1:30am and that's where I am at now. I'm waiting on a carbon tank which I hope I'll eventually get... I still have to bleed the brakes, work on graphics, build a carbon fiber silencer. I have the canister and got an old FMF shorty silencer on eBay that I need to refurb. Gotta order a few OEM parts I don't have.
The graphics ERA Moto Co worked on a while back to match my 1998 ones. Still not finalized, we still need to add the companies that supported the build...
Cant wait to see it finished.
But shouldn’t this be on the builds section?
Nothing beats the simplicity of the 2 smokers....
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Nice work by the way.
2000 was a great model.
Awesome that something positive is happening right now.
Pit Row
It's reason #1 why the feature should at least be made transparent. Or just remove it all together.
DV, do you have any pics of that original silencer?
Just the new one
I mean this guide mounted to the upper fork tube. Is that one not necessary? If it’s there, and I see it’s not in your finish pictures, the clamp for the brake line where you have it on the guard would hit it. I like how you have it mounted with the blue clamp. It’s much cleaner than how I did it but I still have the upper fork tube guide on.
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