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Re: 1979 RM125 Restoration Complete
« Reply #45 on: January 17, 2010, 10:57:14 pm »
Marketed as a Mudbug in UnZud only Mark ;) they were sold here in Oz simply as TF farm bikes and they were tax exempt to the man on the land. As for comparing performance to the AG Yamaha's you'd have to ask a farmer :D

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Re: 1979 RM125 Restoration Complete
« Reply #46 on: January 17, 2010, 11:56:03 pm »
Marketed as a Mudbug in UnZud only Mark ;) they were sold here in Oz simply as TF farm bikes and they were tax exempt to the man on the land. As for comparing performance to the AG Yamaha's you'd have to ask a farmer :D

I still have one of the clutch levers on my TM/TS185.... in case I want to open a farm gate or shoot a pig or something. These days the man on the land is on a 15 grand quad or Gator, no great call for ag bikes anymore.
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Re: 1979 RM125 Restoration Complete
« Reply #47 on: January 18, 2010, 12:00:11 am »
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Re: 1979 RM125 Restoration Complete
« Reply #48 on: January 18, 2010, 12:36:19 am »
Very nice :) :), had a RM125N back in 1980 and race junior 125’s good bike, I raised the compression by replacing the 1mm (copper) head gasket with a 1/2mm one, we moved the ignition 2° retarded I think. Than added DG reeds, port job, and an electron carbi.

Engine was slow until she came on hard, I could be last off the line and second in the first turn. Wish I kept the carbi, traded the bike at Savage Suzuki in Perth.

P.S love the RM500 in the back ground, rare horse.
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« Reply #49 on: January 19, 2010, 10:20:40 pm »
Can you forward on brake stay rod length centres that bolt's go thru ( at brake drum & chassie ball joint ) 0n a Rm 125 T please.