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Worked like a charm! Thank you very much!

Thanks! Yeah, perfectly sense! So much sense, actually that I've already tried the hacksaw (only the blade, no handle), but without luck. But I think that vice version is probably the best bet I have. I only have to find a socket that's of the right size. Which shouldn't be impossible in my overstocked garage. Especially overstocked now, that I've sold my Chevy Suburb an two years ago and the Renault three years ago, so I don't have something to fix every bloody weekend!

Thanks, but I've tried all that's possible without knowing what I'm doing. So I think I need advice from somebody who's actually done this before.

The old one was shot, but I can't even get that out of the footpeg mount! I have attached a photo, so you know what I mean. Is there a special tool, a special trick or something like that?

And the deed is done. Bearings in place, and they worked out very nicely. The old cups (racers?) for the ball bearings can be used as spacers for the headlight fittings. So now my son's going to do the rest of the work, and he'll be back on the road. Which is in good time because the end of the coming week is the first time this year that it has been forecasted consistently over 0 all day and all night. Norway's had a rather cold and long winter this year... My southern part of the country usually has +10 degrees C most of March and 15 in April!

He-he! How fast a technical thread goes comical... But thanks! I think I have some O-rings at home. If not we'll deal with that later.

That does sound smart, yeah. Thanks! There was so much in that thread that I didn't see that little gem.

He-he, well, I hope these are the correct correct parts, then! His were obviously the wrong correct parts... And I hope it will be apparent to my son how they fit! This one he has do do himself, so it's going to be interesting. No daddy saftey net this time...

Oh, man... that joke really hurts! Well, I checked out that thread, and it's not the same bike, so I hope these fits here. Caroline at Yambits seemed very certain, and she's been right on previous parts for the things, so I'm hoping it will work out. Thanks for the tool tip! The rubber are meant as grease seals at the bottom and at the top, then?

My son's home and I'm away for a month, and he doesn't understand how to replace the original ball bearings on the 125 DX with the taper head bearing kit he got from Yambits. (Fast shipping and great service as usual, btw!). I suspect that he has to remove the part of the head itself where the balls were, but am I wrong? He says it seems to be a part ofthe head itself, but they can be knocked out, right? Is there a tutorial somewhere that he can follow? Also he says that the kit came with some rubber bushings. Where are they supposed to go? Are they a part of what's going to be punched into the steering head?

Thanks! I do believe I have found one: http://yambits.co.uk/rd125-taper-head-bearing-kit-p-3671.html It says: That would be the DX, right? I'm going to mail them tomorrow, but I'm pretty sure that would fit.

Thanks, that's what I thought. Still, would it be better to change to new taper bearings?

My son has a problem with his balls. Not hereditary, I know very well how many balls I have and need! Now I have not looked at his because I'm not at home right now, but according to the RD125B_RD200B repair manual, which I have, there should be 19 balls both in the upper and lower bearing of the stearing head. He says he can't understand that because it doesn't look like more than 18 will fit each. The problem is that he has split two heads at the same time, one parts bike and his own bike, and he may have mixed up the balls. Sounds rather uncomfortable to me, to continue the (bad) jokes. But he thinks he has 37 balls from his own bike, and they should be OK. Then he may have dropped one on the floor and can't find it, so it may have been 38 originally. But is it possible that there are 18 balls in one bearing and 19 in the other? And which one is what? Or would it be smarter to buy replacement taper bearings?

Thanks! Sounds just about what I remember from 30 years ago on my moped. I just wanted to check.

I'm talking about the weird looking thing that doesn't even look like a nut and keeps my loose balls in place (couldn't resist that one...). It's kind of hard to use a torque wrench since I don't have anything that resembles the pattern on the nut. So how do you guys do that?

Thanks! I actually didn't know that the 200 DX had electric start. It feels sort of wrong, really... These bikes should be kicked into life!

In Norway we're getting a new rule for bikes from the first of Jan, which says that you need to drive a "medium heavy" bike for two years before you can start with the real fun stuff. My son's getting there in one and a half year, and he's dreaming of an RD 250 around '80, same type as his current 125 DX cast wheel bike. Is it realistic to find something like this, or would it be a wild goose chace? An RD 200 DX would of course be an alternative, I guess they have a pretty similar perfomance, right?

Too bad. But thanks! I'll be waiting to hear what Givi tells me.

It may be a standard fairing, so I sent a message to Givi to ask if it's one they have made. I would like to have an original screen because I'm not sure if I can cut the profile good enough, and anyway I'd rather pay myself out of something like that than doing it.

Really? I didn't know that, thanks! Here's a couple of (bad cell phone) pictures of the fairing. I see that it has a Givi sticker under the screen, but it looks pretty standard and fits very well. Maybe it is a multi-purpose fairing anyway?

I have bought a parts bike for my son's RD (some moron backed a trailer on it in a parking lot and bent the front end), and it has a fairing that according to the seller is original. Is that really true? It fits very well, but I haven't foune any pictures of these bikes with a similar fairing. It's not so different from my own RD 350 LCII's headlight fairing. The reason I ask is that the screen is broken, and I need to find out where I can get another one. He really wants to use that fairing!

Here's the one I can get in Norway. I need to see the lower leg to see if it fits. I mailed him for pictures of that, plus measurements of the fork legs. The yoke looks pretty correct to me.

Aha. That's the difference. They were sold in Norway in a time where there were no 125's, 100 was the largest. From 1980 (not 1978, I remembered wrong) they came with disc brake. They were RX 100's outside of Norway. Now they are made in India, and many import those and put the parts on an old RS 100 frame:

Thanks! This is a disc, and I have seen lots of pictures of RS100's with discs. Just do a Google picture search. Does that mean that they are all modified? I thought the 78 and up, or something, came with discs.

That would be interesting. I can actually get a brand new front fork with steering yoke for around £130 locally! Made for the RS 100 because there is still production of those somewhere in the world. I can phone them and ask the measurements and ask for better pictures.