Also that's a beautiful bike!

@@ScootLogix I kept it for 1500 miles and sold it to a guy in Poland!

That little Honda is a CT70 Chinese clone with a 125cc Lifan engine. So what part of the country do you live in now?

Did you mean the rear "bag" or the built-in rear rack on the bike? The cargo bag is a KLR650 bag. they are $155 on Ebay all the time, brand new. They zip at the bottom and expand upwards to hold a full-face helmet.

We were all beginners at one time. Back when I started, there was no internet to get information from to help out newbies. We had to learn everything the hard way. Now we can share our 55 years of knowledge.

Thanks. I hope you enjoy it. I sold mine to a guy in Poland when I had 1500 miles on it. I bought three more motorcycles.

Yes, all of us old owners of the originals miss the two-speed gear box. The guys that never had it don't think it's a big deal. But it is. It makes the bike a lot more useable. I doubt it will ever come back. The only way to overcome it is either to put a 5-speed tranny on this with very low, low-gear, or give us a 175-200cc engine so we'll have enough power without changing out sprockets. Neither one of those will probably ever happen either. So we gotta just enjoy it for what it does. It's a fun bike to own and ride, but it's not great at any one thing. It's only mediocre at everything. It's underpowered and dog on the highway, and not much better on steep trails. The only thing it's good at is riding fairly good trails and going slow. It's most at home on two-lane mountain roads that you could drive a jeep up.

Yep. It was still underpowered, but like thousands of others, I “caught the bug” riding an old CT90 in the late 60s and early 70s. I guess I’m just nostalgic about my original freedom machine.

@@spydie you can count yourself lucky to get it in the U.S. It’s not part of the Honda Canada lineup for '21 . In the past we had the cbr125 but it's not more legal here ( 124 cc : no , 126 : yes ...) on the highway even if it 13 hp instead of 8

@@martinmartin5904 Wow, Canada has lots of terrible laws, gun and motorcycles!

@@spydie even with 13 hp on my cbr125 I find it suicidal to go on the highway with it . Stupid law or not I just feel insecure of not being able to get out of a bad situation with a twist of throttle when you're already at WOT most of the time .

I'm not sure how pure wax would hold up on the rigors of a motorcycle chain. There's no anti-corrosion involved with pure wax. The wax-based spray chain lubes have more properties than just wax. Motorcycle chains get hot and pure wax would drop off I think. Bicycle chains don't go that fast.

Thank you. It's long gone. sold it with 1500 miles on it to a guy in Poland. I've got a Honda Monkey now that I like a lot more.

Reduce vibration in the handlebars. I’ve got four single cylinder motorcycles so vibration is something you get kinda used to.

I told you all about that bag in the video. I know it's long, but you'll have to watch the whole thing to not miss information like that. It's at about 4:20 in the video

@@spydie Cheers. Somehow I missed that part. All good

I didn't like it after I had 1500 miles on it either. you could squeeze 50-55 mph out of it on a good windless day on a flat road but it's really a 45 mph bike (the old CT110 was a 40 mph bike). I just couldn't go anywhere fast enough and running a bike wide-open all the time just isn't wise. The best upgrade is a 42 tooth rear gear. A 13 tooth front tooth is like a 3 tooth change on the rear. So the 42 rear is a good compromise. A 13 tooth front was good for off-road only but it really killed your top speed. You won't lose any top speed with a 42 rear and you'll gain a little power off-road. A 42 tooth rear also didn't affect the ABS. The 13 tooth did. I sold mine to a guy in Poland and bought a Yamaha XT250. Much happier. But I love the looks of the CT125. If they ever came out with a 200cc I'd buy another one.

@@spydie I really don’t need the speed where we are and for what I need it for. I needed a bike that would go 7 miles to our river camp drive, the mile down the drive to the camp and then get me up and down the 150’ hill a few times during the day to keep me from wearing out. The roads are all 45 mph and lower and I can get to town and shopping on it without needing to go over 45. Still, not nearly as refined as the Vespa.

Thanks. But I sold it to a guy in Poland

That stock seat is really HARD. I sold the CT125 to a guy in Poland. I've moved on to a new Yamaha XT25, Kawasaki W800 and Moto Guzzi V7 Stone Centenario

Every accessory on this bike is money. accessories aren't cheap. The new speedometer costs twice as much as the backrest.

You can see the brand in the video. I did a close-up of the name. I got them on Amazon

@@findingneutral I'm looking at the video. Look at 18:37 and 18:57 and 19:07. Plain as day. And I even read the name to you if you listen.

@@spydie Thanks. I'm thinking those bar risers are a good investment. Stock is bit of a stretch for my messed up scapula.

@@spydie I was talking about the mirror extensions not the bar risers. But thanks still because knowing the risers worked out still helps. I'll be getting some of those too.

@@findingneutral sorry. I was mistaken. Just do an amazon search for them. They have lots and lots to choose from

I don't know what "a CC and the internet too" means?

@@spydie I'm just teasing you. Glad you're happy with your ride.

No. Never considered it. I’ve ridden dirt bikes all my life and never broke a headlight

I never said I had one. I said you would need one to make the ABS work properly with a 13t front sprocket. I haven't found one yet for the CT125. Opmid, that makes that cool speedometer for it, will have a Dr. Speed for this bike in March they said, but we don't know if they'll ship it to the US. A USA company called 12oclocklabs has one for the Grom and Monkey, but none for the CT125 yet.

Great review. Thanks for sharing. I got my bike Thursday. I put the tank rack and a rack over the head light. I agree with you on the mirrors being too short. Can you tell me where you got the mirror extensions.

@@Jokerboy-ps7tv and the what? What's a tank brace? Do you mean the spare gas tank mount?

I had to edit my reply sorry about that. I also did the spare tank.

@@Jokerboy-ps7tv amazon

Yes, they say you should do it when the chain is warm. Personally I can't tell any difference. And you can find one if you are willing to drive to another state to get it. Some guys have driven many hundreds of miles to pick one up. All bikes are scarce right now, not just the CT. I had to drive over 600 miles round trip to get my XT250 and over 500 miles to get my Kawasaki W800 and my Moto Guzzi V7 Centenario 850. But a lot of guys drive a lot farther than that. And if you wait until you can find a CT sitting at your local dealer, you'll probably never get one. They are pretty much spoken for in advance unless you live in an area where they aren't selling well.

@@spydie i know i drove over 600 miles round trip to get my silverwing. 2012 with 309 miles on it and as far as the lube i do it when i stop so that it can drip off before i ride the next day. and i also wrote down the lube you like because when i find a trail 125 i want to a good lube. but i think i will have better luck finding bigfoot. or seeing a UFO.

@@MadsWorld34 Wax-based lubes like the one I mentioned don't "sling" off and you can put them on any time and don't have to wait for them to drip off. They don't attract dirt and sand either and look nice much longer.

You're right. Back then I didn't think to put links with my video, figuring everyone could google the stuff and decide where they want to buy it (unlike a lot of KZfaq channels, I don't get any kickbacks if you buy items from links I post).All the accessories on my bikes are big brand names like the Barkbuster hand guards, the Optim speedometer, Kisan technology for the headlight modulator, the KLR tail bag, etc and you can google those big brand names and see where you want to buy the accessories. I don't own that bike anymore having sold it with only 1500 miles on it. I was disappointed in it.

@@spydie I'm still trying to get used to the no clutch thing and I'm still up in the air about it. Thanks.

@@shinyblind That wasn't a problem for me because I'd owned two CT90s and two CT110s in the past so I was used to it. I hear there's a rumor that it will be a CT150 next year. We'll see. It really needs a bigger engine to be roadworthy, but in my opinion it needs a minimum of 175cc and preferably 200cc. And they really need to go back to the 2-speed transfer case for slow off-road work. This thing is way underpowered in it's only (high) range. If you get it stuck in the sand or the front tire against a rock or log, you can open the throttle full and it will just sit there and grunt. It doesn't even have enough power to spin the wheel. It was a big disappointment over the old CT110 which was a 40 mph bike. These are really a 45 mph bike so it didn't gain much and it lost low range which it really needs with that automatic clutch. The Monkey is a better bike for off-road because you can work the manual clutch to break the tire loose when you need it or feather the clutch. I thought this was going to be a big upgrade to the old bikes but I was disappointed as I feel it was a downgrade.

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I have no idea, I sold that piece of junk to a guy in Poland shortly after I bought it.

I sold it to a guy in Poland.

I lived in Wisconsin for 37 years but never rode my bikes in the salt, so I have never seen chrome go bad. But I've seen painted items get rust under them from the salt. Any scratch in the paint and it will start rusting off. So if you think painted junk is better than chrome, you'll find out that's not the way it works. The painted parts on our bikes (rims and carry rack and all the rest) will rust just as quickly as chrome in the road salt because you'll get scratches in the paint just like the chrome did.

@@spydie I don't ride my bikes from November to March (England) because of salt. My impression is that cars certainly have good paintwork these days. My car is 15 years old and in quite good nick paintwise. Cars from the 60s and 70s tended to rust out in 5 or more years. I get the impression that the paint on bikes is good too these days, but not so good if it is painted aluminium. No sign of the Honda CT125 here yet.

I lot of people use WD-40 but it's a light oil that flings off. The speed pulse compensator is a nice addition.

Yes, I sold mine because they are too slow. Really need a 175-200 cc engine. They also needed the hi/lo range (or a bigger engine) because it couldn't spin the tire and pull itself out of sand.

@@spydie i think you could get a 250 still in a small package i like the ergonomics of the thing so an upscaled version would be killer the only thing is i still want air cooling for low maintenance

@@Friedrich-Wilhelm-1980 I replaced it with a Yamaha XT250. the 250 is the right size for that bike, but the smaller and much lighter CT could do the same thing with a much smaller engine. I also bought a new Kawasaki W800 and a new Moto Guzzi V7 Stone Centenario because they both have an air-cooled engine.

@@spydie idk if id like that i like to sit upright wile riding ill just to have to wait and see

@@Friedrich-Wilhelm-1980 All of my bikes are upright (standard) bikes. No laying down like on a Ninja.

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tampoco las venden en Polonia, así que le vendí mi bicicleta a un tipo en Polonia. pasaron tres meses antes de que lo consiguiera.

I'm sure you missed the point. A 49cc bike with small tires and no transmission isn't going to go where the CT125 will go, nor as fast. I think you should buy the Ruckus and leave the real bikes to us big boys! LOL

@@spydie - He said the BIG Ruckus. That's 250cc. But that's the first thing I thought when I saw the back rest you put on. That's what you made your Trail look like.

You probably didn't realize they don't import the Big Ruckus into the USA, right? It was only imported two years and isn't even being made anymore for any country. That's probably why I didn't buy a big Ruckus!

@@TheSkete Yes, I missed that, but he didn't realize they haven't made the big ruckus in many years and only imported to the US for two years a long time ago. You can't just go out and buy one and you can't get a new one. And I only buy new model-year bikes.

@@spydie - I see one for sale every once in a while on Craigslist, or eBay. But they definitely don't sell them new in the US anymore.