So my boss picked up a 2001 YZ125, Sight unseen, from a friend of his in Colorado. Imagine our surprise when this shows up! turns out it's an ex-Motoworldracing.com team bike, that was sold to someone who obviously only rode in the woods. The previous owner added a big fender tool bag, skid plate, and spark arrestor. other than that, it's the real deal, We pulled off the clutch cover and found a full Hinson basket, inner and pressure plate. This project just went from "make it run and flip it" to restore it back to perfect condition.
she's in pretty rough shape, the countershaft had sheared off behind the sprocket, so the cases had to be split and that was replaced. At some point this bike had been blown up bad, because the cylinder had been replaced with an Athena. We could see where the cases had been ported, but the cylinder was untouched, so we sent it off to Terry Varner, who did the MW team stuff back in the day, and he ported the cylinder to match the cases. the frame was sent out to be powder coated, and we had ZLT reproduce the Motoworld graphics.
Re-assembly starts now! Stay tuned!
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