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RS125 questions....

SpeedyCorky

rides minibikes;U should2
Joined
Mar 9, 2003
Location
East Bay Area
Moto(s)
are clearly addicting; so you see - it's really not my fault...
Name
key-tay
1) what year did they stop producing these things? and what is a desireable year as a result of the different changes that were made over year models?

2) can you take a normally street legal motor, say, crf150 4 stroke, and put in an RS125 chassis, get blinkers and stock exaust and mirrors and all that happy stuff, can it be made street legal? i've heard something like you gotta get the crf150 street legal, then apply for a 'frame swap' or something?



thanx mini-barferz :cool
 
Dude just buy a derbi or an aprilia that has a title and build it how ever you want. At least it will be comfortable for riding. The RS125 is not really suitable for doing anything other than racing.
 
Are you asking about the Honda or Aprilia? The latter is grey-market. The Honda is a purpose-built race bike. The seating position will suck for street riding.
 
Honda


:blah race bike bad seating position..... my other bike i'm considering is an NSR50, and you really cant make an arguement that an RS125 is less comfortable than a little ass NSR... can u?

i dont think i've ever actually sat on an RS125; least if i did, i dont have a memory of instantly exclaiming "wow this bike is totally recockulously uncomfortable!"... so...


:x
 
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The bikes you mentioned are all racing bikes......Mr.Corky....:nerd

You will have a very difficult time registering one....not unless you have a serious hook-up...
 
thats basically my question, is can you take a 'race bike', and put a 'street' motor, in it, and then 100% legally get a plate? and if so, what year RS125 should i be looking at?
 
SpeedyCorky said:
thats basically my question, is can you take a 'race bike', and put a 'street' motor, in it, and then 100% legally get a plate? and if so, what year RS125 should i be looking at?

No. Frame does not have a 17 digit vin. Only way to do it would use the DMV's one time special construction exemption. Not to sure if they'd allow this for a two-stroke...........


:loco Mark :loco
 
:loco Corky,

DUDE! Why go thru the hasstle of trying to register a "race" bike??????

+1 to what Pierce said......
 
cuz i'm



CRRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAZZZZZZZZZYYYYYYYY :loco




yeah its not sounding like it can be done legally. i figured that since the bike in the end wouldnt have a 125 2 stroke, an instead a smog legal 4 storke, that perhaps a 'frame swap' of some kind could be done 100% legally. guess not tho...


looks like i gotta PM NSRDOG and ride his ass about that NSR
 
The RS really is a lot less comfortable than an NSR/YSR. Your feet are closer to your butt and almost all your weight is on your wrists from the long reach to the bars. They also have like 5 degrees of steering lock, which is great at speed, but when you can't lean it way over (i.e. parking lots, U-turns) it makes for a huge turning circle. This would piss me off in S.F. in about ten minutes. I'd say just buy an Aprilia RS250 w/ plates if you want to be different.

Mike
 
It's quite embarassing when you're riding your Rs125 through the AFM pits at very low speed, and when you need to make a quick steering change to keep balance you hit the lock and almost eat shit in front of everyone at 2.5 mph.
 
ok ok, no RS125 on the street

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afterall, i wouldnt wanna drop my fancy pants RS125 in front of my P-Hill Starbucks crew..


:twofinger
 
How tall are you? I'm 6' and when I sit on Jakemate's RS125, I can stand it for all of about 3 minutes before my legs start cramping up. It's a very non-ergo friendly bike.

As for swapping a 4-stroke, it's my understanding you can swap a CRF450 motor into the '96 and later chassis. You could probably do the swap, throw the lights on and take it to the DMV to get the VIN and reg. After that's done, you could swap the smoker motor back in.
 
SpeedyCorky said:
Honda
you really cant make an arguement that an RS125 is less comfortable than a little ass NSR... can u?


:x

Yes.
 
streetable answer

You've tried to ask this same question several ways in several areas of the forum.

I would like to discourage you in the strongest possible terms.

For what you're asking, you want to get a bike from the same company from about the same time period and nearly same displacement.

For example, get an SRX250 and it will have a magical VIN on it and it will already be street legal.

It is then completely illegal to transfer the VIN to another Yamaha that might be 250ccs. The EPA never approved the TZ250 for the street here.

So don't do this.

I had a desire to do this a long time ago but fortunately it passed. Why do you want to have magnesium rims out on the street? Race stuff in addition to being FAST is barely strong enough to survive racing. A racing wheel will always be prone to bending more than a street wheel. Will you run slicks? I hear CHP will impound your bike and fine you more than $300 if they catch you with something like this. Cool!

Unless you have a specific idea of what you want to do and realize the trade-offs don't even try. To have never been on a torture-rack RS125 and assume you'll be fine on it isn't wise (yes, I know, you're tougher than me). I'm 6' and it's painful to race it every month. I take an Alleve before I hop on it.

Do you want a powerful thumper in a good chassis? Do you want a full grey-market bike? Do you want a 2-stroke? The answers for what to do will all be radically different.

I put a 500 thumper in my old SRX250 and it was "fun". But "fun" included having gearing something like 16 x 36 and a first gear moon-high to enable running at highway speeds without grenading or shaking apart. Dirt bike transmissions belong on dirt bikes. Unless you have a talent for being able to re-engineer the transmission gears to make it a wider shifter it will always be like this.

If you see street legal NSRs and think you can do it with another bike rememeber the key difference is the NSR is a street legal bike in many parts of the world. Thus you can buy a light for it. Also, it has an electrical system which is compatible. Are you going to put in a 12V battery for your lighting system and only charge it at home because there's no lighting coil on an RS125 or many of the dirt bike engines? Not a good idea.

Yes, I'm old and boring, but I do understand the urge to have something "different". A LOT goes into re-engineering a bike that you'll find out the hard way. Just recognize your finished product will never be anything close to "factory" by the time you're done. You'll always be explaining to your buds that you have to tickle the carbs JUST RIGHT so it starts, or that it fries its batteries every month or it can only go 80 miles on a full tank or that it balks with bad carburation at low revs.

Good luck and get something stock for the sake of your own sanity!
 
allright, allright allready !!! i give, i give!!! :laughing

ok so the RS125 frame isnt the way to fly on the street, reguardless if it it could be legally done or not.

yah, for sure going Derbi or NSR. waiting for NSRDOGs NSR50 to be in 'sellable condition', or for a good deal on a 2001 or 2002 Derbi to come along


and again, i'll be swapping in a CRF150 motor in there adventually, so whatever the stock motor does (lighting coil, or otherwise) of whatever bike i get, really doesnt matter 1 tiny bit
 
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