YZ125 L 1984 Basket Case Restore

[paul]

for the life off me i can work out why the CZ RESTO WOULD MAKE IT INTO THE VMX MAG IN THE FIRST PLACE
YOU WERE TOLD THAT THE ENGINE NEEDED RE DOING .BEARING SEALS  ETC AND YOU DISMISSED THAT AS NOT A GOOD IDEA AND WENT AND STUCK IT IN AND THE THE OLD PLONKER WOULDNT RUN ANY WAY SO,WHY PUT A BIKE IN A VMX MAG THAT ONLY HALF DONE ,JESUS JI AT LEAST FINISH THE JOB BEFORE YOU START WINGING ,

[paul]

WERE IS THAT CZ RESTO PAGE ON HERE SO I CAN LOOK AT IT AGAIN ,DID YOU EVER GET IT FINISHED AND RUNNING .LAST THING I REMEMBER WAS I ASKED IF IT WAS A RUNNER AT CD?6 MABEE AND SOMEONE ANSWERED IT DIDNT RUN

[Marc.com]

Cmon Paul, you can't hear it running in the magazine.

I think one issue with magazine material is it has to be news worthy. Sorry to say it but giving a spit and polish to an complete production  YZ may have cut it in the early days, but unless you have recently welded the frame out of titanium it is not really news. The standard of the bikes available has gone up over the years so you are competing with factory bikes and other exotica for space. Not saying your bike is not good, it is good, but I think for a magazine build you really have to think even about what bike you are starting with and whether it will turn heads.

BTW I know of a titanium framed YZ being built.

[monaro308]

Thats when magazines begin to lose sales and fail to see the real picture.
Normal suburban people that have memories of owning and riding these bikes back in their youth.
Builds like Ji are what i want to read about in a magazine.
If i see another unobtanium on the front cover,all i see is a bike i can't relate to or afford to own.
How many times can a story be rehashed about a factory bike?
The fun is finding,trading,searching the net for your build and telling that story in the mag and the pitfalls of mishaps during the build.
Factory bike build.....white coat draw this,white coat machine this,white coat fit one off part to bike.
That won't help future vintage bike owner/builders.....I wanna read stories like JI GANTOR's builds.
I want to tell the mag how i built my bike not for them tell me how it has to be built!
Meanwhile i will enjoy everyones builds on here because thats how THEY built them.

My 2 cents and my view.
Keep it up Ji.....back to your build

[Marc.com]

Thats when magazines begin to lose sales and fail to see the real picture.
Normal suburban people that have memories of owning and riding these bikes back in their youth.

When VMX started it was not a global magazine and people were not actually making a living off VMX, things have changed, there are now professional VMX builders and also what people do build in their backyards has evolved.

[BJJ]

Wow,  what a great thread

[monaro308]

Whats happened to Ji gantor??
I was enjoying his rebuild and posts.....nearly 2 months since the last one.

[paul]

spat the dummy

[All Things 414]

Someone told he was writing a book (on Sprites I think.......  )

[Rossvickicampbell]

or - if it means so much to you - you can supply the same documentation, high quality Jpegs and have your article all published on various web sites in a much quicker time frame - oh and be happy that it has been published and not expect anything for it.  I just loved to have my "work/love" published rather than expect it to make a world class mag like VMX!  After all how many Red CR250 resto's are there out there - can't expect them all to get published?

 

Rossco

[steveo247]

Whats happened to Ji gantor??
I was enjoying his rebuild and posts.....nearly 2 months since the last one.

looks like we get to miss out on the rest of his resto due to his thread being filled with crap by others.

[Hoony]

what happened to Ji Gantor?

[All Things 414]

Someone must have asked him to chase up some Hoonda parts......

[Hoony]

Someone must have asked him to chase up some Hoonda parts......

 

only 1 "O" in Honda Rosss, you should have known that.