Aprilia Sr 125/172 Project

Right, got myself a Sr125 the last week for £300. Needs speedo cable, battery, by the looks of it a rear wheel, rear tyre, and thats about it, possibly engine bushes/ slient block, but im trying to get it through the MOT first and when i rebuild the engine thats when they will be replaced.

This is how i got it 12/03/2010:










What my Plans are:

172 kit
Standard or Pm 52 pipe
25mm carb
Maunal choke conversion
SRT lightened Flywheel
Malossi Filter Burger Filter (Got)
Led rear lights
Angle eye lights
Undertray
Cut down mudgaurd (done)
Respray in white with gloss black inners and Blue metal flake
Seat needs recovering, in black or white
Custom front panel or the one of the 50
Polished Transmission case
Blue Renthal Bars and White/Black stem (maybe stage6)
Stage6 fuel gauge and Koso speedometer
Blue rim tape
Flush indicators for rear
Smoked lenses
Line seat bucket with Fur :yahoo:
Side stand


and thats about it!


18/03/2010

Today i have Sprayed the front wheel, mudgaurd, fork bottoms, Revamped a malossi filter i had lying around, Started rubbing down some of panels. Thats about it for today, its already got Dragster Paoli shock on it which is quite nice, spring could do with a powder coat, does anyone know how to get the spring off? and do i need special tools to get it back on, as im guessing it needs to be compressing to get back on?

I get paid next week, so shall see some more stuff going on when that comes

 

Keep the inners black mate.... White inners are hard to pull off....

These peds look sick when there stealthed out with blue led's and shit.

http://www.apriliadreams.co.uk/projectstealthsr172.htm

 

Im sure i stated i was doing gloss black inners and white outside pans? anyway thats what im going, sanding down all the material so its all smooth. yeh that doesnt look too bad.

 

Cheeeaap!

But I wouldnt trust putting all that money into the engine of that bike. I reckon its a ticking timebomb if given some beans. You not changing crank?

 

its not having any mods on it at the moment for the engine atleast. But when i do buy the parts i will be purchasing a new crank now you mention it, iv heard that just 172 kit can fuck the crank, and the engine has a fair few miles on it so yeh, i will be rebuilding the engine for summer or might do it over winter, might change the spec, im thinking:

172 kit ported
cases flowed
New bearings, gaskets etc
BGM crank? havnt looked into cranks any idea's?
Possibly a TDR pipe or jollymoto 172

 

Update 21/03/2010

Painted the shock up today with just gloss black and green with a bursh, just to make it look better for the mean time, im planning on getting it powdercoated in a few months, and painted the carb, left float bowl on because i cba to mask the bottom up, im spraying the float gloss black. Colours are going White main body, gloss black inners, few small bits in green and green holagraphic flake over everything, should spray it in a week or so. Also put wheel on.

 

Updated carb pic:



the green is darker in real life and the black is alot glossier aswell

 

haha, not too everyones taste, it looks better in real life

 

im gonna chuck it on there and see what it looks like, if it looks shit then ill paint it black, and if that looks shit then silver it is wont be able to tell anything till its painted

 

am i the only one that loves the green on the carb and think it looks tidy? :mod:

 

yes cratch: ...

 

just put it back on the bike and got to say looks 100x better on it.

 

THOUGHT THE GREEN LOOKED A LITTLE OFFKEY... ITS JUST LIKELY TO GET PETROL ON IT AND START FLAKING? BLOODY CAPSLOCK

I LIKE THE MATT RED CARB UP THERE THOUGH..

ASLONG AS YOU LIKE IT THOUGH MAN, ITS YOUR BIKE

 

i put it on the bike and looks better on than off, but still not sure, will change it when i spray the bike i imagine, people keep saying petrol will get over it, but why? if all my pipes are connected and iv put it back together properly then it wont leak petrol will it
Im also painting the engine black soon, so might look good against a black engine.

 

Although lines are tight you may still get slightest drip of petrol driping. And being a 2t its likely at some point to need the carb off again at which point causing drips to the painted parts. Its not a big issue, just keep ontop of it. As long as you like it and are happy to maintain it, thats all that matters. Kinda funky. Like a ninja turtle :grin:

 

haha, very true, might get it powdercoated when i send my shock off anyway, so we shall see, Should be MOT'd next week, so fingers crossed! Then its Lightned flywheel, maybe a pipe and spray job oh yeh and may even chuck some renthals on it

 

Renfooooools

Had them on my SR, looked abit odd but hey, it felt nice

 

Yeh i had downhill bars on my old Sr they loooked nice, but they stuck out too far, so im getting proper stem and some bars, just got to decide where my wages go