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So I am starting the rebuild of my old race bike from 2004. I have kicked around the idea for over the past 10 years of rebuilding it. Little back story about the bike, we (my step-dad) bought the bike new from Bob Tracy's world of cycles in 03 or 04. I believe in spring of 05 I was at High-point Raceway and i locked the crank up. Took it home and was planning on rebuilding it that next weekend. Well the world had other plans for me. Our house caught on fire and we were lucky enough to not be home but unfortunately our dog did not make it. The bike wasn't in that bad of shape. The sub frame was off and took most of the damage. Other then that the smoke damage just the surface of everything.
So basically I am going to do a ground up rebuild and hopefully get back into racing from a 15 year hiatus.
If anyone has any old pictures from 01-06 of Suzuki's amateur race teams bike that would be super helpful.
I am look to use that as a guideline for my build.
Im going to post some pictures up later today of the bike.
So basically I am going to do a ground up rebuild and hopefully get back into racing from a 15 year hiatus.
If anyone has any old pictures from 01-06 of Suzuki's amateur race teams bike that would be super helpful.
I am look to use that as a guideline for my build.
Im going to post some pictures up later today of the bike.
heres one of the suzuki amateur bikes
The Shop
I talked to the seller and they are refunding me my money.
Normally it takes me weeks to buy something because all of the research I do but I remember 15 years ago Universal had full page adds in every bike magazine. Tons of people were running them. Looks like ill have to do more research then I thought for this since I've been out of the game for so long.
Anyone have suggestions on a complete triple clamp setup?
I was thinking applied, pro-circuit or RG3
I'm looking into doing 280mm Yamaha rotor swap with a Brembo front master cylinder
Im going to use
stock 04 Rm 125 front caliper
96-02 Honda Cr 125/250 caliper bracket
14+ Yzf 280mm Front Rotor
Cr style brake line
Not sure on what master cylinder but it will be a Brembo
If anyone has done this setup and has any tips that would be great.
I'm still up in the air what color to cerakote everything though
Late model CRF Master Cylinder
Motostuff Billet Caliper V 2.0
Motostuff 280 Rotor
RMZ Caliper bracket (this bracket will give you a better sweep area on the rotor than the cr bracket)
Motostuff brake line.
I have this identical set up on my RM250 except I am using the motostuff v 1.0 billet caliper. This setup is phenomenal.
This is just my opinion.
Talked to PR2 they are going to handle the suspension rehab.
I am still bouncing around on who I should send the motor to. I was thinking PR2 but I also have looked at Tom Morgan, Eric Gorr and some others.
Any suggestions?
I was looking at doing a 134 kit and having it ported and polished.
Pit Row
Idlk if you have got the front brake setup you want yet but the brakes on an 18+ crf slide right on and have ridiculous stopping power. I put an entire crf front brake setup on my 04. Just an option to think about if you havent bought a front brake yet.
What did that end up costing you if you don't mind me asking.
What's it run like?
I havent bought anything for the brakes yet.
You have the whole setup meaning, master cylinder, brake line, caliper, caliper bracket, rotor?
Thanks for the help!
The brake setup i bought was the master cylinder, line, caliper and hanger but if i remember correctly the rm front rotor was smaller so i used the OEM caliper hanger and slide the new caliper onto it and bolted it on.
This is before cleaning the rads
After I was done with cleaning them
The shifter before cleaning and removing the casting marks
After cleaning, casting mark removal and blasting for cerakote
I was thinking about cerakote it with the heat transfer coating, I remember a magazine doing something like 10-15 years ago and it made a difference.
https://www.cerakote.com/shop/cerakote-coating/C-187/transfer-grey-air-…
The before shots
After about 10 minutes of soaking and about 10 minutes of scrubbing
I have a ton of parts coming, I did some work this morning.
Cleaned the cylinder and head, put in the bolt kit
Cerakoted the side case and water pump cover.
Cant wait to start putting all the parts on this!
The difference in the foot pegs is crazy. I had the same set on my crf and I really loved them.
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