My bike is broken

[yorkie_chris]

No point having a shiny new clutch if it's revved itself to bits is there.

Listen to the herring. It is time for top end strip down.

What bike is it? Gaskets are usually cheap for 125s, you can even use cereal box for the base gasket.

[Jayneflakes]

Hey folks, thank you for all of your kind comments and advice on what I need to do to the bike. The bike is a Honda CG125 BrJ 1990, was bought from E-Bay for £250 and has been my training bike for nearly eight months now.

Carol has it stripped down now and given that it is twenty years old and has clocked up nearly thirty thousand miles, it is in otherwise reasonable condition. The clutch plates were in tatters, badly scored and burnt to a crisp, it seems that when it let go, it tore the plates to bits. The saddest part of this is how I feel about Henry. He may be a dirty, rattly, smelly and smoky old banger, but I love him, seeing him in bits with delicate parts exposed to the air seems so wrong.

I have asked Carol about the metal shards and she started using long words like "ridden like a tit" and "can't blame the previous owner!" so I just smiled and tried to look extra pretty so she will fix it for me!

In truth she has mentioned the top end and has taken a long time to show me how it all works, bless her. She laughed when I marvelled at how complex it all was and made jokes about Centrifugal Oil Filters and being designed to run on for ever with a sump full of chip fat. She then got out my Haynes manual for the SV and started showing me things in that just seemed horribly complex.

I have asked her about the metal bits in the bottom and she assures me all is well and it is just bits of the clutch plates, she is more concerned about the obvious idiot that rides it who worries over nothing and cries when the bike wont go!

fairy and soap powder nail brush and water sorry to hear about bike you can have my sv for 1600

[yorkie_chris]

So have you had any look at all at the engine? At the very least whip the rocker cover off and check for totally obvious signs of carnage! (do the valve clearance while in there)

Since, over revving will not make a clutch go bang, but, CG125 has pushrod engine which is not very resistant to high revs! (pushrods have a lot of inertia compared to a OHC layout like the SV)

Good news is, CG125 engine is about as advanced as something you'd use to run a cement mixer, and parts are cheap if it does need a new top end.

Originally Posted by Jayneflakes

but I love him, seeing him in bits with delicate parts exposed to the air seems so wrong.

Women and bloody machinery, Man the f*** up!

[yorkie_chris]

Also, clutch overheating would give you bits of cork and metallic powder in the oil sump / filter.

Shards are not good, unless they obviously correspond to missing bits from the plates (it really doesn't sound like it is). Then it is likely they have come from elsewhere. Overheated, worn or burnt plates don't tend to shed swarf.

And riding one like a tit won't create swarf unless something is badly wrong.

To be forthright for a moment, I know you think your lass knows what she's doing, but a more in depth check is a really good idea to avoid it really blowing itself to bits when back together.