Honda must be very proud of those inserts...geez. Awesome job solving the mystery. I've never had spinning bar ends until this bike. Looking forward to checking out your fix/upgrade.
Thanks for doing that - it gave me the clue on how to do it. After watching your vid, I pulled off the grip by squirting a little WD40, Used a tool very similar to yours to push the two buttons in simultaneously. Then, by screwing in the stock bar weight back into the insert, all I had to do was pull on it, after the two buttons had passed the two holes. It pulled right out without turning, or using pliers on the end of the weight.
The length is probably for more weight. More weight less it can vibrate. A roll pin would be tight. Do you need to grind of the boss that's protruding on the end of the bar to make it flush?
I hate it that you went to a great deal of trouble to do a simple job. Simply place something (I used a thin pry bar wrapped in a shop rag) between the end weight and grip and then tap lightly outward with a hammer and it simply slides out. I just performed this job on my new CT125. I then sanded inside the bars with a Dremel, placed the anchors in the freezer then put a micro thin layer of grease on the anchor wedge and gently tapped in the whole anchor with a mallet.
You gotta remember that back when I got mine almost no one had them. There was nobody with experience weighing in on the forums that had a clue what held them in. Some guys they they were the same as some other bike they had, but it wasn’t so. There are actually release tabs on it and it comes out without a pry bar
Yes, I had thought of that, but I've alway been adverse to drilling holes or making permanent modifications in my bikes, but I think it would have been worth it for this mod!
I currently have a fat tire ebike , but the local Honda dealer has a 125 to deliver around 22 June , my name is on the top of the list ! So I have been watching 👀 a lot of these 6 month old videos 📹 . Thanks !
@@richardduke9788 Yes, these videos were VERY popular from about last Sept until after the first of the year when everyone finally started getting their bikes (I paid my money down on Sept 3 and got it Dec 3 and was the first guy in NM to get one). Of course we all started watching the Thailand ones in about Sept last year and a ton of threads and forums popped up for these bikes. Mostly filled with guys bitching about not being able to get one. The popularity and uniqueness has worn off now as the guys that got them realized they were not the bike they were hoping for. A lot of us remembered our Trail 90/110 bikes which topped out at about 40 mph and were hoping for a 55 mph bike in this new Trail 125, but it's a 45 mph bike. You can stretch it to 50-55 on a good day, flat ground, and maybe a little tail wind, but it's really a 45 mph bike (and the speedometer is way off from the speed you are really going). But 45 mph via GPS is still where it likes to be. It's also not a dirt bike, nor a bike you can run in the sand because of the narrow tires. It's just an easy-trail bike. It's been put through murderous tests by all us first owners and taken places it was never designed to go and then we all complained about its failings. It's geared too high so the best solution is a 42 tooth rear sprocket. Dropping one tooth in the front gave it better hill-climbing power, but killed the highway usage with very high RPM. Dropping 2 teeth in the rear was a better compromise. (one tooth in the front equals 3 teeth in the rear). It's a great little bike for running around town, or in my case, back and forth to town because it's a 45mph speed limit all the way. But taking it on long adventure rides like we all planned to do fell by the wayside because it's too slow and the seat is too hard. It has lots of other failings too like non-adjustable preload for the rear shocks (which all the early CT90/110s had). If you get picky there's a lot of things to not like about this bike, but if you use it for what it was intended for, it's a lot of fun. I've got a fortune in accessories for mine but the best thing you can do for it is replace the speedometer with the Opmid one. Some guys have put big bore kits in them with limited success and the ones that haven't given any problem still ended up buying a bigger bike for the road because the big bore kits still didn't give them highway speeds. I hope you enjoy your new bike. There's still a lot of guys waiting for these, but the sales frenzy is quickly dying out in the US. My newest bike is a Yamaha XT250 which has turned out to be the bike the CT125 should have been. Very good highway speeds and it will go places off-road the CT125 could never go and all with more comfort and power than the CT125. But nothing is a cute as the CT125.
50 years ago I had a Honda 250 dirt bike that I used to check cotton fields in N.E. Mississippi. Haven't ridden much since then . Got the ebike about 4 years ago , and it is showing its age and time for something newer . I imagine this 125 will be a welcome step up from the fat tire ebike. I celebrated my 21st birthday for the 50tieth time the end of May , so my speedster days have changed into , a slow casual stroll ! I can carry an extra gas can , but an extra battery for the ebike is around $500 .
@@richardduke9788 I celebrated my 20th birthday for the 50th time this May also... you've got one year on me! LOL. Been riding bikes for well over 50 years non-stop. I've owned 57 of them in every brand, make and size from mini bikes to Goldwings and Harley Ultra classics and everything in between, standard trikes, reverse trikes, sidecars, etc.
Honda must be very proud of those inserts...geez. Awesome job solving the mystery. I've never had spinning bar ends until this bike. Looking forward to checking out your fix/upgrade.
Thanks for doing that - it gave me the clue on how to do it. After watching your vid, I pulled off the grip by squirting a little WD40, Used a tool very similar to yours to push the two buttons in simultaneously. Then, by screwing in the stock bar weight back into the insert, all I had to do was pull on it, after the two buttons had passed the two holes. It pulled right out without turning, or using pliers on the end of the weight.
You're a good man... I don't care what your wife says about you! LOL
@@spydie bahaha 🤣🤣
The length is probably for more weight. More weight less it can vibrate. A roll pin would be tight. Do you need to grind of the boss that's protruding on the end of the bar to make it flush?
Thx for the vid.
Great information! Thanks
I hate it that you went to a great deal of trouble to do a simple job. Simply place something (I used a thin pry bar wrapped in a shop rag) between the end weight and grip and then tap lightly outward with a hammer and it simply slides out. I just performed this job on my new CT125. I then sanded inside the bars with a Dremel, placed the anchors in the freezer then put a micro thin layer of grease on the anchor wedge and gently tapped in the whole anchor with a mallet.
You gotta remember that back when I got mine almost no one had them. There was nobody with experience weighing in on the forums that had a clue what held them in. Some guys they they were the same as some other bike they had, but it wasn’t so. There are actually release tabs on it and it comes out without a pry bar
A slotted shear pin from your local tractor 🚜 dealer .
Yes, I had thought of that, but I've alway been adverse to drilling holes or making permanent modifications in my bikes, but I think it would have been worth it for this mod!
I currently have a fat tire ebike , but the local Honda dealer has a 125 to deliver around 22 June , my name is on the top of the list !
So I have been watching 👀 a lot of these 6 month old videos 📹 .
Thanks !
@@richardduke9788 Yes, these videos were VERY popular from about last Sept until after the first of the year when everyone finally started getting their bikes (I paid my money down on Sept 3 and got it Dec 3 and was the first guy in NM to get one). Of course we all started watching the Thailand ones in about Sept last year and a ton of threads and forums popped up for these bikes. Mostly filled with guys bitching about not being able to get one. The popularity and uniqueness has worn off now as the guys that got them realized they were not the bike they were hoping for. A lot of us remembered our Trail 90/110 bikes which topped out at about 40 mph and were hoping for a 55 mph bike in this new Trail 125, but it's a 45 mph bike. You can stretch it to 50-55 on a good day, flat ground, and maybe a little tail wind, but it's really a 45 mph bike (and the speedometer is way off from the speed you are really going). But 45 mph via GPS is still where it likes to be. It's also not a dirt bike, nor a bike you can run in the sand because of the narrow tires. It's just an easy-trail bike. It's been put through murderous tests by all us first owners and taken places it was never designed to go and then we all complained about its failings. It's geared too high so the best solution is a 42 tooth rear sprocket. Dropping one tooth in the front gave it better hill-climbing power, but killed the highway usage with very high RPM. Dropping 2 teeth in the rear was a better compromise. (one tooth in the front equals 3 teeth in the rear). It's a great little bike for running around town, or in my case, back and forth to town because it's a 45mph speed limit all the way. But taking it on long adventure rides like we all planned to do fell by the wayside because it's too slow and the seat is too hard. It has lots of other failings too like non-adjustable preload for the rear shocks (which all the early CT90/110s had). If you get picky there's a lot of things to not like about this bike, but if you use it for what it was intended for, it's a lot of fun. I've got a fortune in accessories for mine but the best thing you can do for it is replace the speedometer with the Opmid one. Some guys have put big bore kits in them with limited success and the ones that haven't given any problem still ended up buying a bigger bike for the road because the big bore kits still didn't give them highway speeds. I hope you enjoy your new bike. There's still a lot of guys waiting for these, but the sales frenzy is quickly dying out in the US. My newest bike is a Yamaha XT250 which has turned out to be the bike the CT125 should have been. Very good highway speeds and it will go places off-road the CT125 could never go and all with more comfort and power than the CT125. But nothing is a cute as the CT125.
50 years ago I had a Honda 250 dirt bike that I used to check cotton fields in N.E. Mississippi. Haven't ridden much since then .
Got the ebike about 4 years ago , and it is showing its age and time for something newer .
I imagine this 125 will be a welcome step up from the fat tire ebike.
I celebrated my 21st birthday for the 50tieth time the end of May , so my speedster days have changed into , a slow casual stroll ! I can carry an extra gas can , but an extra battery for the ebike is around $500 .
@@richardduke9788 I celebrated my 20th birthday for the 50th time this May also... you've got one year on me! LOL. Been riding bikes for well over 50 years non-stop. I've owned 57 of them in every brand, make and size from mini bikes to Goldwings and Harley Ultra classics and everything in between, standard trikes, reverse trikes, sidecars, etc.