check this bike out a cr125 it is a little dirty so uh
let me go ahead and get this cleaned up and then uh we can take a look
so
god
so this is a 1989 honda cr 125 i believe it's 89. yeah cr
125 r1989 so yeah it's right there got it for my brother-in-law kind of a partial trade for a honda
foreman so we got her cleaned up a bit story is it's probably been sitting for about four or so
years it ran great before that it just he never uses it so he just wanted to get
rid of it and that was a cool bike so i'm gonna go ahead and uh it's a two-stroke so
you gotta mix the gas and oil so i was just looking at the the gas here so yeah the gas looks
pretty bad so i'm gonna drain that gas and get some new stuff i think the mix is 51. i'll look
it up but uh let's get some new gas in there and then see what we can do to start this thing up
all right so we got all the main dirt particles off this thing you have uh fun cleaning this
spike up yeah so next i would love to hear this thing run um like i said i'm told it ran maybe
about four years ago um i like to check out the air filter see how it how it looks in there um
i'm thinking we just try to start it before cleaning the carb so
let's uh just take the seed off quick and take a look inside
check out what's in there looks like a little bit of a almost i think there's a mouse in there uh
i don't know
oh god
no no no yeah this air filter is seeing better days here so uh
let's get this cleaned out before we try to start it
all right pretty much got it cleaned up after seeing that air box i kind of want to take a
look at the car to see what it looks like in there so looks pretty simple to take off just
a couple screws right there and then the throttle so i just feel better to see what's
what's it looks like in there so i'm gonna pop this carb off and now we can take a look
yeah just starting to take off the carb so there's a bunch of gunk in there
i don't even realize the slide was stuck so we're going to unstick that slide
and then uh i'll give this carb a nice cleaning so yeah all right glad we took it off
so here's the inside of the car it's really not too dirty in there but uh
it's a great candidate that's pretty dirty right there it's a great candidate
for my ultrasonic cleaner so i'm gonna take apart the jets and stuff and then
throw it in the ultrasonic cleaner probably throw this slide in there as well that is
pretty crusty i think i'm about to take this off and check the reeds i just look down the hole
looks like there's a bunch of crap in there as well so take off these check the reeds
clean this carburetor and miles for side cleaner and then let's get this stuff back on
all right i got the carb and on the reeds cleaned out got some fresh gas
so
there we go she runs pretty good
all right the mailman came he gave us some fork boots a new chain and an air filter so
i've been working on getting the old stickers off here i kind of painted up the pipe a bit
and that side side cover found some white paint that kind of matches the frame i've been kind of
going around doing some touch-ups so starting to look good
let's uh finish her off with these last three things
all right first up is this air filter pretty obvious it goes back in there
it's gonna clean up the outside and then here's that cage that it goes on so
i'm gonna put this back on there and then get it installed
looks like there was some sort of gasket material on there maybe i'll throw a little more on there
to make a great seal so this crap doesn't get back in there so let's get that installed
oil filter on it is already oiled up so it is all ready to go put these uh
covers back on and get that seat on for good now let's work on getting that chain
all right up next i got a new chain this one looks really stretched out
um it's kind of adjusted as much as it can so i'm just gonna pull off this master link
and then uh get this new one on there and see what adjustments we need to do
all right the new chain is on there yeah that's that's good it's a lot tighter than the
one before can all you can always adjust it by undoing this and then tightening that
but you know that's not too bad it's definitely better than it was um i cut off a few links of
the chain just with my angle grinder and then put that master link on there so
chain will say is good next we got to do these fork boots so uh let's go ahead and do that next
there they are so basically we just need to slide the forks down so we can take the old
ones off and put the new ones on to do that you just undo those bolts and undo those bolts
we'll kind of have to lift the bike front end up so we can pull the forks down
probably have to take off that reservoir right there because the cable i don't think we have
enough cable for it but uh let's make some room get this off there see what we need to do
all right a little engineering but through some bolts up there with some ratchets now
i should be able to just you know slowly pound these down and you can just compress the spring
or the fork and then slide the new ones on there so yeah i think this uh will work pretty well
all right four boots are on yeah that definitely makes the bike look newer and nicer it's gonna
put the uh straps on there and then we will be good to go get the rest of the stuff on and then
oh yeah i think i'm still waiting for my my uh brake lever right here
and that should be pretty much it then we can take this thing for a ride
i'm excited my last two items came of course how to get a brake leather lever because uh
it's missing over there and then i gotta get a new uh handlebar pad i think that's gonna look pretty
awesome on there so uh let me get these installed and then uh i'll take her for a quick ride
so here's the finished product the 1989 cr125 looking pretty good got her all painted up painted
up some of the frame took all those old stickers off got that air filter in there new uh pad on top
new brake lever careful and i got yeah that pipe all painted up and of course those fork
boots in the front probably the toughest part but not too bad at all makes it look a lot newer
you know thinking a 125 would be small but a small bike but this is definitely i'm 6'3 and
it fits me pretty well a little too big for you right yeah all right once you i'm going to try
to start this up i just got her to idle pretty good so let's see if i can get her going here
all right let me get it fired up here
i hope he falls
yeah she sounded pretty good hey uh maybe i'll take it on the road quick and see uh
how fast she is let me grab my gopro
all right let's try to take this for a real test drive
so
hmm
holy cow this thing can go once it hits that power band oh man the guy really gotta hold on
well i appreciate you guys watching and uh we'll see in the next one love these two strokes