today I'm gonna show you how to go from this to this man that looks a million
times better and only takes a few minutes to swap out so this is the
original style from the cr125 kind of old-school looking you know 2000's style and
I'll be converting it over to a 2019 CRF style so you need you newer plate and
fender obviously and a bracket and all you have to do is drill a few holes in
the fender so pretty simple stuff now there's a couple different styles you
can choose from here when converting your front end all the way from 2010 up
to 2020 so there's three different styles and I'm gonna go ahead and show
you so this is the 2018 to 2020 style right here this is my favorite I think
they fit the cleanest together there's no gap between the number plate in the
fender and now we have the 2014 to 2016 style a little bit different than the 18
to 20 but still looks really good and last up we have the 2010 to 2012 style
so whenever style you choose you gotta use a matching number plate and fender
you can see where they meet up is different on all of them so for example
if you're gonna use a 2010 number plate you want a 2010 fender as well and make
sure you stay tuned to the entire video I'll be doing a giveaway on everything
required to restyle the front end of your CR and just for clarification this
conversion works on cr125 into 50s from 2000 to 2007 alright let's get started
all right so I've got the old fender and numberplate off the bike let's go ahead
and check out what we need to do to the new style fender to get it mounted up so
you can see the mounting holes are quite a bit different from the to the newer
style has a little bit of a step up so we'll need to read drill the holes on
this one luckily I've got a template here to make this easy for you guys
so just mock it up there and we'll get started
now before we do anything else we'll need to take our fender washers and
install them upside down so with the flange on the bottom side of the fender
put these in the rear holes of the fender then make sure you have to your
fender bolts handy line up the template with the front facing the front of the
fender take your fender bolts and push them through the rear holes and then
take something that sharp like a punch or a pointy screwdriver line them up
with the four dots on the fender and then give that punch a little tap with a
hammer go ahead and do that to all four pull the template off and then we'll
have four dots that we can easily see that way we know where to drill now
we're gonna grab an eighth inch drill bit to drill through those holes we're
just gonna drill a small hole right now to use as a pilot hole
now we're gonna step up to a 3/8 inch drill bit now you can see how close the
rear holes are gonna be to the existing holes that can be a little bit tricky so
you can either just go for it with a 3/8 and kind of just slot this existing hole
or I'm gonna try going in between with a quarter-inch size drill bit I'm gonna
step it up two 5/16 that way I'm is slowly working towards that threes now
we're ready to step up to the 3/8 you want you can kind of go ahead and clean
this up with a knife and now we can just put the old fender washers back in place
and now the fender is ready to go on the bike so this process with the drilling
is gonna be the same exact or any fender from 2010 up to 2020
so the fender mouths just like the original one and you want to make sure
you use the original washers on the back cover up those slotted holes that front
fenders looking mighty fine on there mount it up really nicely now for the
front number plate I'll go ahead and show you how we're gonna go about
mounting this thing up on here alright so the CF number plate uses two mounting
holes one on either side whereas the original number plate bolts up in the
center of the triple clamp right there so obviously this is gonna need some
modification now what I've done in the past is just run a zip tie around the
triple clamp through that hole hasn't held up the best it's kind of ghetto not
really the greatest solution but I do have a more permanent solution here it's
a bracket that bolts on right here and allows you to you just straight up both
the number plate on so pretty much like a factory part and this is that bracket
I'm talking about so just slips on like so fits right over
the triple clamp hole like that fits really snugly on there and then you've
got two threaded holes on either side of the bracket to bolt that number plate up
so pretty trick setup pretty simple deal just bolt that bracket on using the
center original hole just like that nice and tight on there now if you're going
to be using a cycler stadium plate like the one I have here you'll notice that
it zip ties around the fork which is awesome but there's also some stuff you
gotta be careful about so on this bike I never protected the fork you can see it
wore into the anodizing a little bit so you'll either want to use a piece of
clear vinyl to wrap around the fork to protect it or siker actually makes a
little rubber pad that goes behind a number plate right here where it rides
on the fork in a pinch you can even use some clear packaging tape I don't have
any clear vial right now so I'm just gonna have to use that for now
and now the number plate just mounts up like a factory part now another thing I
really like about the cycler stadium plate is it has its own brake line guide
so it just has this little piece that clips in like so and holds the brake
line in place and then you just take a zip tie secure the plate to the fork and
we're all done man it's crazy how much of a difference just a number plate and
fender make on a bike this thing looks like a completely different bike now and
one thing I was gonna say with the 18 to 20 style it fits really good right here
the seam the other styles you end up with a little gap here not a huge deal
but in my opinion this style fits the best everything clears fine back here
with the pipe and the radiator guards no rubbing at all
so yeah just a really clean set up now this bike is a 2005 and 2004 to 2007
uses a little different style bracket compared to the older bikes so this is
the newer style bracket if you have a 2002 2003 this is the style bracket that
you want let's go see what it looks like on my oh three so I have a 2019 CRF
front fender and plate on this bike as well it just uses a little different
style bracket though that one right there now when you buy bracket you get
all the mounting bolts required the fender template I showed earlier and
mounting instructions so a pretty complete set up also these brackets are
made of stainless steel pretty thick material so they're not
gonna break or bend on you nor are they going to rust also they're made in the
good ol US of A America so I'll drop a link down below to you where you can buy
the brackets and if you're needing a front fender and number plate as well
I'll also link the cheapest place to find those now if you want to modernize
your bike a little bit further what you can do is the poor tree style kit makes
the bike look like a 2019 that's what I have on this bike here
pretty cool-looking kit I'll link that down below as well and on the 125 this
is the original plastic style which i think looks pretty good as well but one
thing you can do to modernize it a little bit one thing I did on my old 125
I'll actually put a picture on the screen right now that I trim the number
plates down a little bit so started right here kind of trimmed down like
that just got rid of the back portion so this flows a little better I might do it
on this bike not quite sure yet but just an idea for you guys now if you don't
run a cycler plate the bottom is gonna be a little bit loose what you can
actually do see these two holes in here you can run a bolt down through those
existing holes in the fender here and throw a nut on the bottom side and that
will secure it so the 10 to 16 plates I believe you can do that and then for the
18 to 20 plate I have this little locating tab that goes into the fender
and that'll keep the bottom of the number plate secure now I promised you
guys a giveaway so what I want you guys to do is go down below in the comment
section and comment Prime that's PR y and E I'm gonna pick one of your
comments and I will completely refund your order on prime of X if you order a
bracket and anything else on the store I carry t-shirts hats stickers cleaning
pads obviously the brackets but in the next five days I'll pick one your
comments and completely refund your order and I'll also send you this fender
and number plate so you can get your bike looking just as good as this one so
go down below comment Prime order up a bracket along with anything else you
want on the store and enter to win that all that for free plus these as well the
only stipulation I got to keep it in the US these are kind of big to ship
overseas so just keep that in mind well that's it for today
appreciate you guys watching and hopefully this video helped with
modernizing your CR I'll see you all in a video coming soon keep it Prime