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Certainly have. Front forks seem to have leaked most of their oil as the bike dives alarmingly on braking, gearbox jumping into neutral every now and then, oil leak from somewhere but apart from that riding ok! Gave it a thrash around the lake track near our house last week, a real hoot. The engine is still as rattly as ever, but picks up nicely in the lower gears. The kids enjoy pillon sessions, so to date it's doing a good job as a holiday toy!

I hadn't! Many thanks indeed, a lot more reasonable than some of the other stuff about. I'm still awaiting a reply from the previous owner to see if his cover's still around, but in the absence of a reply this looks promising. Cheers!

He's after about £20 postage, so it's looking uneconomic. Thanks for the tip on DT175 searches, I'll keep looking.

They are out there, aren't they? The postage to the UK would be steep, but I could ask for a quote...

Just testing! (Please could the mods add a red-faced smilie...) That's the danger of buying parts for a bike that's a long way away..............

Many thanks, I hadn't spotted that. There's another sidecase cover on ebay at the moment, allegedly for at DT125/175 but it looks very different: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie...A:IT&ih=004. The one you've found looks a lot more akin to the hole left in my bike, although it's in France and I'm not, so I can't check. I've got an enquiry going through to the previous owner to see if he's still got it somewhere, but I'm not holding my breath...

Just my luck, 'all gone mate'! Plea for one in any condition repeated!

Many thanks for that, I'll give them a call.

Speedferries.com are cheap and have got more biker friendly of late. We use them regularly in the cage, very impressed for value and service. Very quick crossing, around an hour. I haven't had a bike with them, but have seen and chatted with a fair few bikers on trips over the last couple of years, they have no complaints at all. Dover to Boulogne is all they do at the moment, but that gets you within striking distance of the better autoroutes with added advantage of cutting out half an hour on the way down south once you're there.

Hi all, I'm new here having just acquired a 1979 DT 125 MX, presently sitting in a garage in South West France. The bike has been sitting up for the last eight years and has recently been serviced (I think this was just a new clutch, oil and filter) but is now running. I covered a few miles before a front puncture slowed things down. The learning point here is that inner tubes usually perish after such a lengthy rest.... I'm missing a flywheel cover for this bike, so if anyone can help out with one in any condition I'd be interested. Cheers, Paul