Cynic

Brave words. A member on here was clocked at over 80 on his. By me and others. Rides all year, maintained with luck and old bubblegum. They are VERY solid bike you can rely on. Low on cool points, yeah probably.

Thats alright. They will break down soon enough and when your buying beer. They will be buying piston kits.

Welcome to the world of utter bullshit that is 125 top speed.

Oh well? Strange. You should be able to comfortably humiliate any 4stroke 125. No matter what they are. In fact anything post 2002 will be lucky to pass you without spending proper money. Define pinned. You will need to check that as they can move. It needs the pv re drilling and the pin re fitting for it to stay open. Keep an eye on the pv seals too.

Yep. Like i said, spedometer accuracy is off. My car is off by around 10mph. When the clock says 85 im doing 75 as per my tom tom. Be happy, you have a good bike im not shooting you down. With some care and a quality exhaust properly jetted. Providing the engine is still sound you bike could hit a genuine 85. Its where all the bullshit comes from with the later dtr's doing stoooopid speeds. Yours is one of the last genuinely restricted bikes. Later dtr's didn't have their wings clipped. They were designed to 12kw so have to be tuned. BIG difference.

Tut tut, that's a Dt125r. Small difference but makes a big difference as far as the engine is concerned. That bike on a good day with the right mods may actually do 80mph, I would take the speedometer reading with a pinch of salt as I would expect up to 15mph error. Nice bike. Done well to survive, most are dead.

This thread is long dead.

Brace yourself for the 100mph DT's...

Thought it took 7 days, still months quicker than our lot though.

Think that title is an oxymoron .The only person I trust to fix my bikes is me. Long description but your a bit shy on detail. Were there any other signs, bad idle, cutting out or running odd. Maybe having to rev higher for the power or dropping a gear earlier. Also, "well maintained" that counts for nowt. I have known people who would wash and polish till the bike gleamed but hadn't the faintest idea of maintenance and worked on the 'aint broke don't fix it' theory. Others like my late mate, he would obsess over the tiniest mechanical detail, it had to be perfect. Soap! Not a chance, but his bike make a swiss watch seem thrown together. Any receipts or service history. Have you done anything with it on your trans European trip, what's the mileage now? There is a Fazer forum that may help with the London angle, there are some folks on here on there, I cant help you as all of my bikes are a lot more than 10 years old but someone will be along. I hope you get it sorted.

You have resisted plugs (that's what the 'r' means) if you use them with resisted caps your bike will run badly if at all. Resisted caps run 4Kohm resistance, so with the caps your lumping 8Kohms of resistance into your system. The ideal is unresisted caps and unresisted plugs for a really bright spark, its only to supress radio interference. One other other is fine but you don't want both.

So long as its suitable for ally engines your ok

Yep. Trip meter is actually a fuel gague in disguise.

Is that only for weekends?

That makes me 45, or 35 or 28. Most recently 28. So after squires can I say I rode a 28 year old repeatedly and at length all weekend? Even left me a little sore.

The original 12 was an animal. Imagine a 150bhp lc. Sounds like the xjr has a gentle touch to make it better in the real world. I could never bimble on a B12. Hoon and intimidate. Oh yes. Only the early ones though and the watercooled thing didnt deserve the name. When you say top heavy how does it affect the front. My tdr turns much better with a full tank.

There is maybe a small benefit but I feel it is making the rider feel responsible for other people's failings. Also reinforcing the car drivers view that a motorcyclist is hard to see, yeah, people don't see my fkin truck at work, that's 50ft long 8ft wide and 15ft high, painted bright red. The cars are far too capable and far too safe perversely. That makes us, as a species ignore the dangers as the likelihood of actually getting hurt is in reality quite low (on a caveman survivability scale in our psych), add a society that now sees everything as 'not my fault'. People cut corners brake too late etc. They are expecting the gaps to be there. I think 90% of accidents are ignorant person versus ignorant person. They both expect the other to react to them in a deferential way and when they don't, bang! To take it full circle (sorry waffling), as a rider you have to anticipate and react to the modern motorist, but your not responsible for their failings. Wearing a whizzy jacket? up to you, but 'chocolate teapot' springs to mind.

Odd. Its the gearbox that goes normally. No thrust bearings so the shafts load up and the std bearings go early. Good oil is not a good idea its a must have. That said 60k is normal.

Yep. Dont use it from your phone either unless you want to be 'randomly' selected to win an iphone.

Nice. Wish I had the space you do john, I have to leave one on the drive to work on any others.

He knows this one is goosed. So tear it down and see how badly then rebuild. Twice in the past, one a v8rover and a 350 powervalve that were running sweetly etc. Heard both running. Neither lasted more than months because of deep down problems. Working out the cost of pulling the motor again and then spending top dolla for gauranteed unit in the case of the v8 i would have been better off fixing what i had.

Remind me never to travel in anything you might have had a hand in.

I agree, also after being caught out buying both car and bike engines over the years, rebuilding that one is a better option. There is no guarantee the replacement engine will be any good long term, it could come with hidden problems or god forbid be from a stolen machine. Stripping that one and fixing it will in the end be the best option, even if you end up needing a lower case that would be a better bet from a breakers than another motor.

Once he's convicted you can go for damages? Lost of transport, pain and suffering, etc. Isn't that how it works. With the conviction he cannot ague blame so becomes liable for all the losses. Like the fake sheikh bloke.

Hmm, well on my old 600 the rev counter didn't read worth a toss till 3k, have you tried riding it with a little more oomph. Getting her out of that nasty 3-4k rpm range, most 600's are happiest chugging at 6-7k, 7k normally the point most non racy middleweights wake up so you have power ready to use if needed.