ReedValve

project section...good to know. I'll start with complete "before" pics and go from there.

Greetings all! I just became a member and I'm looking forward to many years of Interaction with the "club". I just bought a very restorable (hopefully, piece by piece) 1973 Yamaha AT125 enduro (still can't believe it!) I'm 52 years old and I owned this very same bike when it was new. It was also my very first bike with many more to come after that. That very first '73 125 was taken from me prematurely by a Woman running a red light (car) through an intersection going 40 mph. I got t-boned by Her and I was ALSO doing 40 mph. When I finished bouncing off of cars ACROSS the intersection, I picked myself up (yep) and hobbled back to the scene to find my bike wedged under the front of a car across the oposite direction. That was the last I would see of my NEW $475.00 bike. Lifting my right leg at the very last second before impact without a doubt, saved my bacon! (that and I was playing H.S. football at that time). I want to make this bike,very stock and very clean and showroom new as possible. Probably more of a vintage memento than an everyday driver that it once was. Can't wait to start admiring it like I once did ever so many years ago. Till next time.......JS