1994 GASGAS EC 125

Not quite sure yet. The linkage looks just like my 93 KX and so does a lot of the other chassis parts. The motor uses a lot of CR parts, like the piston. What I think will be hard to find is the plastics. The rear number plates and part of the rear fender (it’s 2 pieces) are also the same as my 93 KX just the nuclear red Honda color. I plan to buy black KX side panels and possibly are rear fender, and a nuclear red Honda fender for the front. I’m pretty sure I’ll never find a set of shrouds, they are not cracked and are usable. I will have to take my time and try to clean them up.

I'm about 99% sure it is an Acerbis carbon fiber silencer. I'm going to do what I can to save it, but it is cracked and the bracket has fallen apart. My plan is coat it with fiberglass resin to try to hold it together and then use a Bud Racing carbon silencer bracket.

So yesterday I disassembled the bike. It came apart pretty easy for the most part. The only thing I've had trouble with is the rear axel, its currently soaking in PB Blaster.

I found a couple things during the tear down. This bike has had a rough life. Both wheels are bent, the front one is cracked in a couple places. The drain plug has been replaced with a rubber plug, the the threads look like they can be repaired.

The front brake caliper has a magnet and part of the wiring for what looks like an old enduro computer. The bike has some paint markings and the plastic is faded around some old stickers, this makes me think that this bike either raced ISDE or a qualifier.

I was in the garage looking over some of the bike parts and noticed something cool. The GasGas logo on the tank is actually made in the tank, not a decal.

Also, I looked the silencer over. The picture below shows the damage. Hopefully I can coat it with resin and save it.

I spoke with the company who imported the bike today, the guy I talked to said that he remembers only 5-6 of these being imported. Either way if 5 or 10 were imported, I’m sure there isn’t too many left.

So a small update on the bike. I've started gathering parts and cleaning some of the aluminum pieces. This thing says Gas Gas everywhere. I have most of the parts to put the chassis together and Ralf at TM has been a great help finding engine parts. I still need to get the frame coated, then I can start putting it together. Hopefully I will be able to race this thing at Vintage Days this year.

Made a small amount of progress on the bike today. cleaned the subframe, airbox and triple clamps. I decided to have the framed powder coated to clean up most of the rust and then clear coated. I can't find someone to replate the frame and since I can't find the original plastic I figure this will look just fine.

I started cleaning the swingarm, I need to remove a couple broken bolts and have the holes repaired. My engine parts should be here tomorrow and I dropped the shock off last week for a rebuild.

Alot of the bolts have this cool turtle logo on them.

I have a new seat cover on the way, a red and black one. It should look a lot better than the yellow and blue one.

So a small update on the bike.

I made a trip to Dayton, OH a few Saturdays ago to talk to Kirk at KRW Cycles. Kirk originally purchased the 10 1994 GasGas machines that were sent here for the 1994 ISDE that took place in Oklahoma. GasGas did not want to mess with shipping all the bike back to Spain so he purchased them. He stated that out of the 10 bikes he had one new one and the rest were ISDE bikes. All the ISDE bike had the Acerbis carbon silencer, and Excel rims. My bike has the silencer by not Excel rims. The rims that are on the bike are mangled so the they may have been changed at some point. It's cool to learn a little history on the bike.

Since the last update I have rebuilt the forks, sent the shock off to be rebuilt, split the cases, changed the seat cover and tracked down a few other parts that I need. Finding parts for this thing is like a treasure hunt, a lot of the parts were utilized from other brands. I've found KX chassis parts, Honda engine parts, YZ clutch parts and KTM brakes.

I'm thinking gold rims will look good on this thing.

Slowly making progress. The engine is in the frame, shock and rear suspension is on. I still need to order a few small parts from TM for the motor. Things like, water pump bearing, kick starter spring retainer, clutch dampers. Hopefully I can button up the bottom end soon.

I have all the parts to rebuild the brakes, but I can't seem to get the pistons out of the calipers. I tried pumping air in to them but the pistons didn't move.

This might go on the back burner for a while, I just picked up a 1980 Husqvarna OR 390. I have a few things I want to do to the 390, but it is a good running bike. It just needs a few cosmetic things.

The linkage and swingarm bearings are the same as a 92-93 KX 125. The only difference I found were the sleeves that ride on the bearings. The bolts on the GasGas linkage are smaller than the KX bearings. I just cleaned the inner race and reused them. The seals on the swingarm are different too.