Back to the darkside.
Some Rg125 bits first, the stock four pot is a great caliper, but pretty heavy, measure against another four pot i had lying around.
So lets upgrade to the two pot sliding caliper! ok that make little sense, but lightness comes first when you have can’t have more power.
This drain nozzle on the bottom of the airbox is the only part of the bike that hits the s1000rr shock. specifically the rubber tube thats attached to this.
Since the depth is fine i just heated it with as heat gun and slowly squished it shut.
Next i started to take a look at mounting the top fairing, stock head lamp cage hit the brake lever, looking into ways of remaking the whole lot out of aluminium.
So enough of the crap piles, my two new bikes are a freshly restored DT175MX..
..and yet another cbr6! gah actually this is only a loaner, couldn’t stand the gb400 any more so although i know i should not go back, i went back, the darkside has tight suspension and shiny bodywork.
carbs needed a little clean from sitting so long, i had the seat/side panels/tank/airbox and carbs off quicker then my dad re installing the dt175 rear wheel, he didn’t know it was a race but a win is a win.
Bling!
So very distracting.
tiny bit of noise off of the camchain tensioner, i think my old cbr6 had a different shape, may change over.
Got those blind holes tapped with the help of a snapped tap, very happy to see it on, less happy when i realised i hadn’t taken note of the timing marks..
Bench cleaned for the new head, gotta copy the porting over from the race head since that was so wildly successful.
Complete head cost €16, will those valves stand the abuse?
