The Best KX 125 Rebuild Ever!

[MXonaKawi]

What an awesome rebuild! I love watching the transformation. I am getting my '99 KX250 this weekend and it is in worse condition than your 125 was before you started the rebuild. This gets me super excited to restore it. I won't be getting so many new parts, but will try and salvage as much as I can and give it many hours of elbow grease.

Keep up the posting, it's good inspiration. I will start my own thread once I start with my bike.

Ed

Hey Ed,

Looking forward to seeing your rebuild come together. As nice as it is having all the new parts, I do kind of wish I would have gradually replaced them all so that I could have started riding sooner. Long live the two smokes!

[KevinTwoStk]

I was at the track as well and got to see this bike up close. The pics make it look nice, but it's even better in real life!

The good thing about such an in-depth rebuild is that you'll get many, many reliable hours out of it with only basic maintenance. You've done all the heavy lifting so now you get to enjoy the payoff.

[MXonaKawi]

Thanks Kevin! Great seeing you out at Milestone! I'm loving this bike so far. Just have to get used to it and riding in general after over a decade away from the sport. Hopefully soon we will both be ripping up the Vet track together!

[ecdeyzel]

What an awesome rebuild! I love watching the transformation. I am getting my '99 KX250 this weekend and it is in worse condition than your 125 was before you started the rebuild. This gets me super excited to restore it. I won't be getting so many new parts, but will try and salvage as much as I can and give it many hours of elbow grease.

Keep up the posting, it's good inspiration. I will start my own thread once I start with my bike.

Ed

Hey Ed,

Looking forward to seeing your rebuild come together. As nice as it is having all the new parts, I do kind of wish I would have gradually replaced them all so that I could have started riding sooner. Long live the two smokes!

I can only imagine your itch to ride the bike. That is, unfortunately, the downside of not replacing piece by piece. I prefer doing everything at once as you are doing it, but don't have that kind of capital or patience. I got the bike this morning and man, I have my work cut out for me. The previous owner (and the owners before him, for all I know) have done so many back yard fixes on it and its missing some parts. I will have my hands full for a while. I will be reaching out to people here on the forum for some help pretty soon too see what's missing and not.

Hope to see some progress pics of your bike soon.

Ed

[MXonaKawi]

Ed,

My best advice is to start with a 250 piece Specbolt kit from ebay which will help you out throughout your entire build. It is essential and will save you hours of frustration.

Pics of mine coming soon!

[ecdeyzel]

Thats true! Although, in order to save some money, there is a bolt and nut place pretty close to my work where I can take all the sizes and get stainless bolts and nuts for quite a lot cheaper than I think the sets come in. Buying the set will save me quite a lot of effort, but I know less effort = $ and since I will rather put the spare money I have into more important things, I will have to make the effort. I have started putting all the bolts, nuts and screws I've taken off the bike into separate packets and labeled them to not get too confused where they go. It takes some time but will save me some dough.

Thanks for the tip though! It's appreciated.

[ecdeyzel]

Hey MXonaKawi, I started my, hopefully, budget rebuild thread. You can check it out here... http://www.kxriders.com/forums/index.php/topic,14317.0.html

How is yours going btw?

Ed