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Bought this orange 72 TS125J in the late 70s for a girlfriend at the time to ride to work, but when it wouldn't start one winter she stopped riding it and I put it away in one of my dads lock ups.

After many years in various garages and sheds, it hasn't done too well , but I finally have the spare time to try to restore it.




Should look more like this


Wish me luck

Had a couple like then when i was a yoof,the 125 and 250 the 125 though was like this but had a chrome front muddy,had some good laughs on that till i bent it...Good project..

Ive got a 1974 250, nice bike . Keep us informed of progress,

Hope you got strong knees for the kick start Good luck look forward to seeing at a zen meet next year

Sweet! I like them, when ive got nothing left to finish , I'll be on the look out for a small stroker trailie to tidy up.

The strip down progresses well

Despite some initial concerns that many parts would be beyond saving, its actually better than expected. Although the jury is still out on the tank which I need to get stripped back to find out also the seat pan is a bit crispy

Overall, lots of usable original parts once repainted or rechromed

After searching around for spares for the TS, I came across another one for sale - I now have 2





Originally thought I'd use it as a donor bike - it has lots of standard parts missing, but does have a running engine, better tank plus 1 or 2 other bits I need.

However, seems a shame to break a complete working bike - maybe I'll try to restore both

Great little 70s trail bikes, nice bike to ride on dirt roads

Just collected my TS125J tank from the restorers - thought you might be interested in some before and after photos - was worried the tank was beyond saving, but Steve at MTS did a great job - although he did say it was one of the worst he'd ever done

That tank does look the Dogz!

WHEN I was about 14, a friend of our family, eldest son had an "L" reg TS100 and I used to lust after it

Great little bikes and about time you got stuck in lad.

Its been a while since I posted an update - I've been rather busy with work stuff, but have been working on TS at weekends.

Had a real fight with a rusted in fork bolt with a rounded off head


Not the most conventional way of heating a bolt using a camping stove, but necessity etc


anyway, with the help of some big grips and some brut force ....


success

Frame and loads of parts back from powder coating

Fork stanchions are away being re-hard-chromed in Luton at Philpotts - should have those back in a couple of weeks.

Fork legs have been blasted back to bare metal, but surfaces is not good enough to polish, so going for some sort of dull chrome or nickel plating - anyway a non-bright chrome finish more in keeping with the original look.


Lot of other parts about to go for bright rechroming

Becker it's starting to look good
It's great to see New paintwork that tank looks ace