• Hi everyone,

    As you all know, Coffee (Dean) passed away a couple of years ago. I am Dean's ex-wife's husband and happen to have spent my career in tech. Over the years, I occasionally helped Dean with various tech issues.

    When he passed, I worked with his kids to gather the necessary credentials to keep this site running. Since then (and for however long they worked with Coffee), Woodschick and Dirtdame have been maintaining the site and covering the costs. Without their hard work and financial support, CafeHusky would have been lost.

    Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working to migrate the site to a free cloud compute instance so that Woodschick and Dirtdame no longer have to fund it. At the same time, I’ve updated the site to a current version of XenForo (the discussion software it runs on). The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

    Unfortunately, the new software version doesn’t support importing the old site’s styles, so for now, you’ll see the XenForo default style. This may change over time.

    Coffee didn’t document the work he did on the site, so I’ve been digging through the old setup to understand how everything was running. There may still be things I’ve missed. One known issue is that email functionality is not yet working on the new site, but I hope to resolve this over time.

    Thanks for your patience and support!

1988 Kawasaki KX125

the rim is beat to crap with flat spots and I don't care, hahahahaaaa spokes are all tight so all good.....oh and those super bling spoke sleeves woo hooo. I will do the rear wheel next for some motivation then onto the chassis for clean and rattle can paint and pulling the engine for clean up too.
 
Spoke wraps-you've lost me on this clean up Robert! ;)

I'll give you the benefit of the doubt & say the spokes were probably really rusty.
 
UPDATE-- had about 2 hours to strip more to the chassis. Great news this motor looks super clean inside , did a real good exhaust port combustion chamber/cylinder look, and it is barely marked and well coated with premix oil (looks like 927 castor). all the fasteners came off fairly easy on the chassis and the shocks and forks came off easily. all fasteners on linkages are well lubed. things really look super good for just a fulll clean up , chassis paint and all the bits and pieces. Biggest cost will be suspension its going to Crow Performance (Race Tech Affiliate Mike Crow). Race Tech has fully blue printed mod kit and mod instructions for the 88 forks and the shock from back in the day. The drilling the rods and other various set up stuff to do. Truth is it looks like a low hour or gently used machine, even the radiator is un bent or damaged. The crank feels solid with no play at all by feel check. pulled the ignition side cover and inside is practically spotless, especially for a 1988 KX125. another noticable thing all the fasteners are proper, not like those POs that booger all the stuff up and put in wood screws and crap like that. Even the rollers and chain slider have very little wear. fotos to follow.
 
Looking forward to pics of that green meanie :cheers:

racemx904 said:
I can't do those things.... reminds me of moto xxx....
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I can understand covering up rusty spokes short term. My experience with those things is if your spokes aren't trashed they will be soon after installation of the spoke wraps. They trap dirt and water and mix with glue and rust and blech!
 
KX125 garage queen/socal (dry conditions)vintage mx bike spoke sleeves are nothing other than dress up items. No concern for corrosion and trapping dirt really. Don't take this bike too seriously really.
 
sweet ! Jerry is a New England native and his crew was something to watch at the local Enduros and Hare Scrambles. great guy .
 
cool robbo. did a mild resto/basket case 88 or 89 kx125 a few years back for a client. they dropped it off in 8 milk crates. said go for it...on a budget of course. i went with the stock can and DG pipe the old one was coke city. check every screw/bolt on the engine including the stator plate and rotor nut. i didnt build this guys engine he said it was "all just gone through no need to check it all" since i dont work for free i didnt pull the cover or time it. i did look up the port to make sure the piston wasnt in backwards and gave it a cursory. guess what came loose on the stand during heat cycles....stator plate screws behind the rotor they failed to loctite. bring bring hey man, need to replace your whole ignition....fark! clinet yanked the bike. it turned out sweet and was litrally race ready other than that! oh yeh toss all the brake hoses/calipers/cylinders and get new everything brake-wise if ya can. i tried to save a buck for the guy and the brakes were a real headache for leaks and stuck everything. gen 1 water pumpers cool man toss in some race gas and some bean oil mreep mreeep!
 
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