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Yes that's the mold in the pic, type of fiberglass does not really matter unless you are doing a production mold that will be making many parts, yes I had an old beater tank that was crusty and rusty, I also had the fiberglass seat piece I had already made, I just combined the two, the plastic tank is off a Ktm 50. Those last two pics were of the plug the mold was made from. I will be posting pics I am making the shell out of carbo fiber , it won't be visual carbon , it will be painted.

So whoever said that TL 125 rims lace right up and work lied or at the very least left out some important details, they might lace up but not with stock spokes, I am not really fully grasping what is going one here but all of the longer spokes are too long and the shorter spokes are too short, the DID rims have a deep drop center which throws everything off, of course I found this out afte puling apart two front rims and lacing the DID up to the TLR front hub, kinda p****d right now.

I also made a support for the frame and welded it up, picture of the plug for the mold also

And then this happened, that is a mold for the custom carbon fiber tank shell and the mini tank that goes under it

I realize this has been a dead thread for quite sometime but after several adventures I am back on it ., frame has been painted and we are rolling again

I believe I pretty much nailed it second time around, I have to build up the glass in some areas but the fit is perfect.

Second time should be the charm on this one, I will pull it off and trim it tomorrow.

Eventually I will be making my own tank - seat combo from Carbon fiber, I can easily use this piece and my beater bondoed up tank to splash a mold , however I would want to narrow it up some in the middle which means sectioning the mold and putting it back together, I also had thoughts of just making a shell that looks like a tank and running the hebo numberplate tank as the actual fuel tank, it holds 1.1 gallons, I remember riding my xl185 to school and back all week on 1.8 gallons.

So I had some extra epoxy resin mixed up today and decided to make a new seat cowl, yeah I know I made it too short but the beauty of fiberglass is you just rough it up and lay some more glass, at any rate here is what I have so far. I already have it taped up so I can lay the rest of the glass tomorrow. Or I may just beef it up and use this as a plug, then make a mold so I can make these and sell them, you never know !

No it is an XR200 kickstarter, I will probably get one off of Jauce instead of paying a ridiculous price for one.

Thanks I looked one up somewhere and it was $127.00, I will keep looking for now this fixed the issue.

So I got around to putting some front brakes on this thing off the other bike, while I was at it I decided to repair the bent up rear brake lever, I fired up the torch and straightened it out, then I kickstarted it and rode it back over to the shop. When I got to the shop I looked at the brake pedal and it was all bent up again WTF ? I started an investigation, the stopper was all there and intact, so I went on the web and got some pics, the kickstarter lever has been changed to an XR200 part. So now what, finding a new TLR kickstarter is not an easy task, so I look at the brake pedal closely and it looks if you lengthened the brake pedal everything would clear just fine. So with a piece off a damaged gearshift lever and a tooth part cut off an old footpeg I lengthened and widened the brake pedal. I will post pics up tomorrow as the bike was left at my other shop.

And here it is folks, I am almost bummed, I fully expected it to be beaten and broken, no dents in the tank, its missing sidecovers and a taillight and the rear fender has been Frankenstein patched, I was going to use it as a beater, I probably still will after pulling all the good parts off and putting my beat up one on it, I popped the float bowl this morning, dumped the fuel, poured some fresh in the tank and it started on the first kick, 3000 original miles on the clock. I think this one is slated for a full blown restoration down the road, parts are being removed and carefully boxed up for future use.

Well it's been a while and I have an update of sorts, I found another running bike that I am trading a running ATC200S and two non running ATC 200'Ss for, the deal should go down sometime this weekend, I know what you are thinking well so much for this build but no, the builds will continue. I have on the way a set of rings and a gasket set for the TL125 , a complete gasket set for the TLR200 and some other goodies, the build on the TLR will continue till it is like I want it, meanwhile I will use the new bike as a beater so I have something to ride while I build something really nice. I will probably tear the TL125 down all the way and at least repaint the frame before putting the engine back in it, I will work on paint and fenders for both bikes later, that.s the easy part anyway. I will post up pics when I get the new TLR here, more than likely I will be riding this weekend if it's nice .

Sorry life got in the way of building these, I got sidelined building a Virago and opening up a new ATV repair business, but I am back !

I finally did some work on this beast, apparently at some point the chain derailed damaging the flywheel housing and the ignition pickup, finding a new ignition pickup has not worked out for me so far, the wiring had been cut almost too close to repair, I said almost, I ohmed the pickup out and it seems within normal range, so I soldered two new wires on it and epoxied over the solder joints and a place where it looks like the chain hit it. Then I made an aluminum shoe to cover it and am JB welding it on, when that cures I am JB welding over the aluminum shoe and making a cosmetic repair on the cover. One more thing the chain derailed hard enough to bend the cover in slightly and the flywheel rubbed it, the pickup also took one helluva lick and I am sure the timing is now retarded. I straightened the cover as well as I could, ground the inside where it was rubbing and am going to install a 4 degree offset flywheel key for a CR50F, yes its the same key and available from ADA racing for $ 9.95. Hopefully somewhere down the road I can find another stator housing, stator and pickup or convert it over to XR200 stuff.

I have been on hiatus for a while after discovering the ACT200X engine would not work in this frame, I ended up putting it in a TL 125 frame and building a street tracker out of it, such is life.

White is the AC headlight wire, all that is needed to run the bike are the black-red which is the source coil for the ignition and the green-white and blue-yellow which are from the pickup coil, the pink and yellow are charging wires and go to the regulator-rectifier . I just dead ended the white, pink and yellow wires, bent the ends over and put a piece of heat shrink over them, the wiring had already been cut at the stator by the previous owner.

You can run the XL cam and pickup however you will have to make it fixed so it cannot advance, the TLR has the advance curve built into the CDI unit. The XL CDI's have a mechanical advance off of the camshaft, if you combine the two it will advance to the point of detonation. You could of course use an XL cdi box with the XL camshaft and advance assy and wire it in.

Yep you will be hard pressed to start a TL125 without the footpeg pulled out of the way with the spring.

On another note I was out ring the 125 yesterday and it suddenly died, no tools on board ( got to save weight you know)anyway I did the obvious checks, pulled the fuel hos and checked flow, all good, tried to choke it and the choke would not work. Hmmmmmmmm there is a clue, so I wrangled the airbox hose off and stuck in the back of the carb is a trailer lug nut, I broke off a branch on a tree and finagled it out of there, whew because that would have been a long damn push home lol.

Working on my new trails section behind my house, its going to be quite a job but most things in life worthwhile are.

I am near Montgomery , Alabama

Looking at the gear ratios the TLR has the closest ratios for the first three gears of all the 185-200 series engines, almost as close as the TL125, I believe I will just go with the TLR gears .

ATC200X engine , I also have a TLR200 engine but I will have to split the cases and replace the kickstarter shaft , has anyone ever successfully put a TL125 gearset into a set of TLR cases.