DT125R ARCHIVE

Where did you get the blue paint??

The blue paint for the headlight surround? If so it's halfords colour match. I will say that as good as it looks, the colour isnt a complete match with the plastics and the surround is slightly darker than them but I'm sure it won't be hugely noticable on the bike. I took the plastics in and used their colour chart to match up closest blue. They have a page of Yamaha blues.

A bit of an update. I'll write a bit about the photos this time. The bike is now mechanically sorted.




I had the powervalve out and dremmeled it back and re fitted.

I finished my fork rebuild, the first one I have done and hope it has all gone back togethr correctly. It feels good and appears to be holding the oil so i guess time will tell!



I rebuilt both calipers with new pistons and seals in both. When undoing the rear bleed nipple it snapped off and I thought "bugger". There was lots of swearing whilst i wondered what i could do now as I couldnt exaclty drill it out as loads of it would end up in the bore of the caliper. I thought, "those chaps on the forum will know" and low and behold supersteve and towiyd pointed my in the direction of a banjo bolt with bleed nipple built in. I ordered 2 up just incase and they arrived and did the job perfectly.





I continued bleedinging the brakes having never done it before. I found an effect method of drawing the fluid through the system using tube and a syrine attached to the bleed nipple. Then once the fluid was all the way down i used a one man bleed kit to bleed the air. The brakes are feeling fantastic!

The speedo drive cable was broken as the threaded collar that screws onto the rear of the clocks had come away and so I picked up a new speedo cable from Wemoto for 10 quid. When I had the front wheel out changing the forks I also put in the better condition wheel I had from the set in the previous photos.

I have run the bike and ridden it around out the front on my house. It seemed to be getting quite warm to the touch but the temperature gauage didnt show it getting too hot. It was going up but didnt get very far. Maybe I'm just being a bikerchondriac? It rode very nicely but i could hear a strange whining/hissing sound which i will investiage. I only have water in there at the moment so will need to change over for a proper coolant.

I order a Motrax Speedo converter that fits to the rear of the clocks between them and the speedo cable to convert from kph to mph and will remove the stickers from the clock face at some point.

I've put the DEP pipe back on for now until I can sort my 3MB pipe out. Someone has monkied the bolt holding the hear guard on and I'm struggling to remove it whilst trying not to damage the exhaust.


Once that is sorted I will be stripped it back and re painting it with plasti-kote as it seems to have good reviews from ppl on here. The dep had a hole in the pipe and ihave repaired using set hard metal style putty that you rub together and it sets solid. It appears to have done a very good job but i still want the standard 3mb pipe on for the better low rev range power. I don't want the high rpm power delivery that the DEP produces according to reviews.




My plastics are all still sitting around waiting to go on. I keep looking at the stickers and wanting to apply them but I'm worried ill mess them up and want to wait until i have plent of time so i dont rush.



The petrol tank is still in the same condition of half stripped. Again i keep thinking i need to sort that out but i wanted to get the bike mechanically sound first and have it as a finishing touch.



The tank graphics are making progress too. My cousin managed to design them well using what i assume was photoshop and I now have the files ready to take to a printing place and get some stickers made up. Then once the tank has been primed and sprayed blue i will apply followed by many coats of petrol resistant lacquer.



Now to the bit im stuck with. ELECTRICS. I don't know what it is but I just cant do them. I havnt done too badly with this one and the brake lights work, the servo obvisouly is working, the ignition is working. The kill switch is working but the indicators and headlight im struggling with. The indicators are all plugged in but seem to be flashing very very slowly. Will this mean a new relay is needed?

The headlight that was on the bike was a polisport and it looks like the wiring has been adapted to suit that. If anyone could shed some light on the headlight wiring it would be greatly appreciated. The photos show what I'm left with. I ordered a new headlight unit from YamBits but i think it is slighlty different to an original. I only had a headlight unit and not the wiring/bulb connectors and the new one from yambits was only 26 quid delivered.

Yeah I know I really do need to and want to. I was lying in bed last night thinking about it so it's not been forgotten. Yeah I will be painting the tank on the Dtr or you mean the Wr? I'll be repairing that too I think.

I'll be using a petrol resistant lacquer. Have you tried and failed? I've had good results using spray cans before providing you prep well and take care and time. I'm going to give it ago as I can't afford to take it to get it done professionally. Also just because I want to try.

I'm pretty confident it will be good and work well, if it doesnt then I'll keep looking for a good condition tank on ebay.

or get it powdercoated blue and put the decals on, powdercoatings cheapish

you dont need metalic because nothing else is on the bike

The whole front of the tank, from the cap on, was back to metal, due to the full tank seeping out, I don't know how long he'd had the rear end of the tank lifted up, but lacquer and gloss had totally washed away, luckily he felt guilty about it, so I got another tank and wirebrushed the paint off, and he got his lad to spray with the Two Pack paint, for nowt. and as pic underneath shows its a good'un.

They do but i am having th stickers made up myself.

Yeah the paint They make up costs a lot but I've had good results with it.

Haha you have the same tent as me, bought it on Friday from Tesco!

Your pitching skills is well better than mine.. we ended up putting it up pretty much 100% wrong looked funny though

Can't beat a good road trip

Mate if I would of known I would of come would love to do this if you ever do it again give me a shout

ToySoldier wrote:

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Mate if I would of known I would of come would love to do this if you ever do it again give me a shout

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 You given up on that epic 300 odd mile mission to Cornwall this year then Toy?

Nev dident give up lol had it all planed then got a job and couldent get time off lol in talks with my pal for next year down to cornwall stay at my aunts then next day go lands end then back to my aunts and go to the quarry lol then next day up to nathy =] then to Inverness and stay with my mam then to john o then back to my mums and go out with my uncle with him and his mates on quads lol then back home

AndyYam wrote:

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Yeah I know I really do need to and want to. I was lying in bed last night thinking about it so it's not been forgotten. Yeah I will be painting the tank on the Dtr or you mean the Wr? I'll be repairing that too I think.

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I have an original blue dtr 125 tank with original graphics on in my shed i would sell in good condition & could save you a lot of hassle pm me if intrested thanks.