DT125R ARCHIVE

Dt Danny · Guru

Meet up with oil

Luke · Guru

Does the red one belong to a guy on here? Remember a project one, but I think it went SM.

Dt Danny · Guru

Nope, it was his mate its in lovely nick too and we all went for a little ride and i bet all 3 dt's going off sounded lovely

MDK · DTR Legend

looks cool two nice muddy dt.s shame some one parked a girly clean sm in the middle ............lol

-- Edited by MDK on Friday 23rd of May 2014 12:03:07 AM

Dt Danny · Guru

lol hahah ;)

oli_125 · DTR Respected Member

Internets broke mate, your bikes quick ;) the red ones my mates, has everything to put it origional, came with supermoto rims laced onto standard dtr hubs, all chrome ;) hes ruined the dep on it tho, cut it too about 3 inch long an took all the packing out, lost loads of back pressure but sounds ok haha

Have to go for a ride up rivvi an ill get another mate with a nice mint restored black an red dt out

Dt Danny · Guru

Dam :/ and yeh i would of loved to here all 3 dt's race off from that pub

oli_125 · DTR Respected Member

Youll have too get a fresh piston an get some compression in your bike then we can meet up one morning an go for a massive ride all day hahaa

Yours sounds quite nice tbh, sounds like the other lads, thought theyd all sound the same haha

oli_125 · DTR Respected Member

MDK wrote:
looks cool two nice muddy dt.s shame some one parked a girly clean sm in the middle ............lol

-- Edited by MDK on Friday 23rd of May 2014 12:03:07 AM

Yepp, spent the day down some "green lanes" end up down one on the way to that pub that a 4x4 must use an my mate on the red dt ended up hitting a hole at 30 an flying off the side making me swerve into a bush with the bike on top of me hahah

Wernt wearin any gear either , thought we were only going a mates house haha

Dt Danny · Guru

my compression is decent dunno why yours is a little higher ( mind you i have run 4000miles on this piston

oli_125 · DTR Respected Member

You kicked it over with your hand! haha mines on original piston 30k + hahaha

Probs from using carlube 2 stroke ;)

you getting a hpires rear mudguard aswell now youve seen them ;)

Victor · Guru

If you can't do it by hand, you need to hit the gym lol.

I find it very handy when I stall on a hill sometime's and can't quite kick it over without falling over.

Dt Danny · Guru

yeh ive been using the **** 2t but thats all i can afford :( id love to run her on comp 2

Calum122 · Guru

oli_125 wrote:
You kicked it over with your hand! haha mines on original piston 30k + hahaha

Probs from using carlube 2 stroke ;)

you getting a hpires rear mudguard aswell now youve seen them ;)

You've got some issues if you can start the engine by hand. That's always a sign that something is not right. It's either that or you're very strong.

2strokemx · Guru

Sounds like you need to head to the gym cal ;)

Calum122 · Guru

2strokemx wrote:
Sounds like you need to head to the gym cal ;)

Sounds like he needs a top end rebuild...

oli_125 · DTR Respected Member

Danny does..

Victor · Guru

Iv'e always been able to do it by it hand, even after a rebore

Dt Danny · Guru

Yeh same always been able to do it

Calum122 · Guru

The bikes suppose to have this thing called compression. This ought to make it hard to push down with your hand. I'm not saying it's impossible. But it shouldn't be easy either. Maybe on a 125 it's a little different.

Dt Danny · Guru

Cal can you check yours and see how hard it is and mine can be pushed down not easy but it can

Calum122 · Guru

You're asking the wrong person lmao. Mine bike ought to be running high compression due to the bigger everything and fresh bottom end.

Luke · Guru

I'll never kick start a bike with my hand. Fuck that, did it once and it kicked back and I nearly broke my wrist...

If you can start it with your hand, it is a compression problem.

That being said, some bikes are easy to start with your hand, like little 2 stroke 80's. Personally I'd never do it though, it isn't called a "kickstart" for nothing...

-- Edited by Luke on Saturday 24th of May 2014 05:16:41 PM

2strokemx · Guru

If a bike is well warmed up you can start it with your pinky lol, not quite that easy but i wouldn't say its hard by hand, i can do it with my kxf and my dads 450, its just technique i only do it if i cant be arsed to get on the bike/kick it though

Victor · Guru

Calum122 wrote:
The bikes suppose to have this thing called compression. This ought to make it hard to push down with your hand. I'm not saying it's impossible. But it shouldn't be easy either. Maybe on a 125 it's a little different.

Your arm's suppose to have this thing called muscle. I've seen a 61 year old start his car by hand, as they did back in the day.

As 2stroke says it's a lot easier when it's warm