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newmann
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Edited Date/Time 1/27/2012 3:11pm
Beginning of a project. It's good to share an interest with people who have "the good stuff"! Hopefully the finished product weighs a LOT less than the 50 lb. chunk of billet it started life as. Sure would hate for my trick as shit bike to break the scales like the current crop of highly desired modern 4 jokes.





Then somedays the planets align and you stumble across the ad in a place you wouldn't normally look and low and behold there lays the holy grail of vintage suspension components. A gold anodized DG aluminum arm for the 76-78 CR125 Honda, a complete set of 38mm 12 inch travel Simon's forks, triples, stem and hardware,brake stay arm and two axles,and last but most definitely not least a complete set of 44mm Fox Forx, triples and axle with the brake drum lug still intact for the 78-80 Hondas. Merry F'n X-Mas to me!!! I refuse to even mention the price, because it was actually reasonable. Don't bother looking at the stock XR front end on the right.

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FreshTopEnd 12/22/2009 12:47pm
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Nice haul. You seem to be the king of them!! Smile

Still have those fox pants lurking around here somewhere. . .
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TerryK 12/22/2009 2:48pm
12/22/2009 2:48pm
You suck!

What are you making in the top pics?
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TerryB 12/22/2009 2:58pm
12/22/2009 2:58pm
A front brake backing plate with cooling fins?Huh
newmann
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newmann 12/22/2009 3:18pm
12/22/2009 3:18pm
Moto X Fox watercooled head for the 77 RM125. Similar to this one for the early Elsinore. Fox only made two of these things and I was lucky enough to get my hands on one to properly replicate.

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tydog 12/22/2009 4:39pm
12/22/2009 4:39pm
I have always thought that backing plates needed fins Joe. Good idea for a project.
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seven11 12/22/2009 5:42pm
12/22/2009 5:42pm
O hell yea. Whats a good site to download some free 10 second clips?
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TerryK 12/22/2009 6:23pm
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newmann wrote:
Moto X Fox watercooled head for the 77 RM125. Similar to this one for the early Elsinore. Fox only made two of these things and I...
Moto X Fox watercooled head for the 77 RM125. Similar to this one for the early Elsinore. Fox only made two of these things and I was lucky enough to get my hands on one to properly replicate.

That good sir, is a thing of beauty!
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MikeyB35 12/22/2009 7:04pm
12/22/2009 7:04pm
newmann wrote:
Moto X Fox watercooled head for the 77 RM125. Similar to this one for the early Elsinore. Fox only made two of these things and I...
Moto X Fox watercooled head for the 77 RM125. Similar to this one for the early Elsinore. Fox only made two of these things and I was lucky enough to get my hands on one to properly replicate.

Fellow machinist here, What are you milling this beauty with? I have 4 matsuuras all over 20 years old and all operate like new, I cant say enough good things about them.
Keep up the good work, looks great!
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newmann 12/22/2009 7:46pm
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I couldn't machine my way out of a wet paper bag. That's why I have my two best guys working on this project! LOL I have no clue as to exactly what they are using. And if I knew , I'd explain it all wrong. I purchased a 3 in 1 Smithy a few years back to make misc. small brackets, bushings and such but haven't finished my home shop. It's sitting under a sheet in the corner along with my watercooled tig welder. Keep getting sidetracked and can't seem to ever finish the shop. I do want to learn some basic machining and good quality welding. It's really a pain in the ass to find a local machinist to do a simple small job or someone to weld aluminum where it doesn't look like something my cat left in the litter box.
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dl117 12/23/2009 4:58am
12/23/2009 4:58am
newmann wrote:
Moto X Fox watercooled head for the 77 RM125. Similar to this one for the early Elsinore. Fox only made two of these things and I...
Moto X Fox watercooled head for the 77 RM125. Similar to this one for the early Elsinore. Fox only made two of these things and I was lucky enough to get my hands on one to properly replicate.

My dad had one made for my brothers 1980 rm100 back in the day, it was the trickest bike at our tracks back then. Then he barrowed it to a guy that made it to LL and never seen it again.
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lumpy790 12/23/2009 5:07am
12/23/2009 5:07am
Not sure who made it but Jimmy Lauer in MD had a water cooled RM125 77 or 78.......some of you old East coast guys may remember his dads track Big Berm.
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kcadrenalin 12/23/2009 6:48am
12/23/2009 6:48am
30+ years later and that thing is still trick as hell!

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newmann 12/23/2009 10:09am
12/23/2009 10:09am
Next step.

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alien 12/24/2009 8:39am
12/24/2009 8:39am
The milling portion of this head is being done with a mazak 410 A milling center.
The machine is not that big but the new nexus controller is super easy and fast to program making it perfect for one off jobs like this.

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