Jialing 125 End Of Year Roundup 2022

This bike had sat unloved in the workshop for an eternity.   Nothing significant had been planned for it until we recently came up with the idea of turning it into a trials bike for the club to take to a local trials course for a bit of fun off-road riding.  The engine, although tatty, runs well and runs without the need for a battery.  To turn this trail bike into a trials bike requires alterations to its frame to lower the seat height.  Fingers Phil James stepped up to the plate and has been putting his frame fabrication skills to excellent use.  As always a variety of other problems showed up as soon as he started working on it.  He found that the swinging arm was twisted and needed to be straightened.  He also found that the Chinese had managed to leave a large lump of weld in the way of the lower steering head bearing race. Phil has also found that the rear engine mount was cracked and needed the length of its spacers altered to make the engine a good fit in the frame.  Despite all of this, things are moving on at a pace and Phil is now hunting down a suitable fuel tank for it.