You’d think that the process of dismantling and reassembling a motorcycle for its restoration would be straightforward, wouldn’t you? What was an assembly must go back together with ease, surely.
Back in May last year when the project was last featured in CMM, after I’d had the CG125’s frame, rear fork and other components primed and sprayed eggshell gloss black, I’d casually thrown it together to give me an idea of how it would look. To give me lift, of sorts, I suppose.
It was an encouragement. I had been fed up with the 1980 CG125 I’d bought back in 2009; as a runabout the push-rod single ran well but the whole chassis was a rust bucket. Chipping through the layers of paint revealed horrible corrosion. And so it was stripped to the bones for a proper paint job that would make it look more like Honda’s
