DT125R ARCHIVE

Yes mate, get use to it apparently use to be very lively in previous years, but yeh i noticed it is extremely dead lately

yea had noticed that .was on here a while back when I was thinking of getting back in to biking. was saving then but got talked into getting a bigger bike. funny the mate who talked me into it has now been persuaded by his wife a van would be much better than his sv600. have found this site to be very informative and will be posting pictures for advise on any dt I go for. some of the euro dt forums are ok but the translation can be a bit ropey .have been out and about today looking in some of the local bike shops but nothing going .the sinnis apache 125 and 250 look ok but don't want a gutless 4 stroke.

and they are the best Chinese bikes.lol. a mates lad brought a ajs 125 looked quite nice new, will try to get a picture of it now. all his family are well into bikes ( his granddad is 71 and still riding harly and triumph) and told him to avoid. but try telling a 18 year old.. the picture taken was first day he had it now a year old and looks like a well raged pit bike.. also is a cat b insurance clame as he was knocked off it and the insurance said it was not worth repairing  the joys of your first bike..... 

really do like the rs 125 especially the last ones in blue. end of era for two strokes. but at 6ft 2 and 16 stone a wee bit small for me. the only sport 125 not counting dt's kmx's and ts. I had was an ar 125 in blue and silver  when I was 19, have lost all my bike photos :( had this then a gpz 500 the dropped down to a kmx 200...... 

I highly rate the Aprilias. Top machines. But if you're a big person then it's a small machine. But that is true for most 125's!

Yes mate! Some updates tonight me thinks :D

Engine is still a no go but interior has made some progress that I'll document and get up over the weekend

ringo67 wrote:

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seems very quiet on here at the moment ?....

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 yup

 

True mate, opened up joining ages ago lol

I think we still have a core group that will always be here, but members do come and go

just looking forward to some good weather and then putting the gs up for sale was thinking of round the £800 mark..what do you all think ?

i might not post anymore but im still around always lurking in case i can be off assistance

Its a good bike but not a popular model. A canned to death gsxr 750 goes for more.

like I have said I've had two kmx 200's and rate them still as very good bikes . but have had a couple of dt's in the past and fancy one now for tinkering with . a hell of a lot more things you can get for a dt where as you are limited with a kmx. the only Chinese bike I'd go near is a sinnis apache . but as its a four stroke it would be gutless . one of the blokes at work came in on a 125 and I thought it was tatty old Honda cg about 20 years old .but when I had a look it was a Chinese ching chong 23we324. a year old and looked like it had been left in the sea for a month. in fact true story...... about 20 years a go there were a couple of pits near me were you could take bikes over and we pulled a Honda cb 125 twin out of one of the ponds it had been under about 4 ft of water for 2/3 days pushed it home no plates or frame number but who ever had owned it before it had been nicked had coated every thing in copper slip drained the tank /oil and left it to dry out and got the thing running again. doubt you could do that with a cheep Chinese bike but .... go back a generation past me and my dads lot thought jap was crap........ and I don't like leaky triumphs a classic bike to me is a rd 400dx or kwak 750 triple

What do you guys think of ktm's? I know they use to get the piss taken out of them; i.e. There would be a picture of a bike snapped in half and a caption saying 'must be a ktm', but maybe that was in the past now days they look like one of the leading manufactures, are know to be expensive and therefore good quality?