Nowadays, the anti-pollution regulations of the European Union have greatly slowed down the two-stroke market. The golden years for Italian motorcycle manufacturers are over. Some companies went bankrupt, others focused on 4-stroke motorcycles.
However, the market for used mopeds and motorcycles is still very active. Many young people and adults continue to buy two-stroke motorcycles, also keeping the tuning market active.
I don't know what will change in a few years, but at the moment the passion for two-stroke motorcycles is continuing to grow.
I believe that there will never be a definitive stop for these vehicles, and even if there were, people will continue to circulate at the cost of violating the rules. I will never give up 2-stroke motorcycles, and I hope that at least historic vehicles will be allowed to circulate.
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New member from ItalyHi, I want to introduce myself. My name is Giovanni, I'm a new member of this forum from Italy. I come from Cento, in the Emilia-Romagna region. This land is called the Motor Valley, and it's known worldwide for being the place where some of the most important automotive and motorcycle industries in the world were born and still have their headquarters, such as Ferrari, Maserati, Pagani, Lamborghini, Ducati, but also Motori Minarelli - the company that produced the engines for the DTs.
I've always been riding a bike. In fact, my father bought me an old Malaguti Grizzly, a 50 cc dirtbike. I spent my days riding in the Emilian's countryside, on the seat of my bike, and so my passion for the engines grew more and more. At 12 I decided to repair the old Piaggio Ciao moped of my father, and I started to restore and tune mopeds.
Then, when I turned sixteen, I really wanted a driving license and a bike to go around. I had to convince my parents to buy me a bike, but I did it. I wanted to ride a 125 cc motorbike, possibly a two stroke. I begun searching for old motorcycles, and they were easy to find st low prices. However, it came out that in Italy at 16 you can only drive 15 hp bikes, and the old 125 2 strokes bikes were much more powerful.Then I started to search more recent bikes, but all were too much expensive for me, even the second hand ones.
By chanche, searching for low price bikes on an italian website called "Subito.it", I found out this cheap bike, a yamaha dt 125. I immediatly fell in love with the style of the bike. I searched for others Yamaha DTs closer to my home and a few month later I found the perfect one: a very nice yamaha DT 125 RE in excellent condition, for sale at €2400 about an hour from my house. I immediately contacted the owner and the following weekend I rented a van to get the bike.I had to replace a few part, such as front brake pads and disc and the intake manifold.
Then I found out about this forum, and I want to share with you some particular modification I made on my bike... I have already posted a couple of simple modifications and I'm planning to post others projects.
I hope to be helpful if anyone of you have any problem or any request.
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DTRE muffler protectionHi, I want to share with you another modification I made on my 2005 yamaha DT 125 RE.
One of the ugliest parts of this bike is definitely the muffler protector. This object, on the one hand prevents the passenger from getting burned, but also covers the muffler plate.
So I decided to get rid of that ugly piece of plastic and replace it with a diy plexiglass protection.
I first created a cardboard shape, then I refined it and reproduced the shape on the plexiglass
Finally I cut and sanded the plexiglass, made screw holes and fixed it with two countersunk screws.Here are some photos:
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New member from ItalyIn my opinion is very stupid to stop termic vehicles and force people to reply them with electric vehicles because they are not the main cause of pollution. The governments worry about stopping an 70's year vespa, which can go for 30 kilometers with a litre. But nobody talks about the trucks that travel all day and consume more than every other vehicles. Or the ships and plane, which have no anti pollution law to comply with.
And even if we stopped all this vehicles, the pollution will not disappear, because just one country like China or India pollutes as much as Europe and North America together. We should stop to trade with the countries who are destroying the world. The thing I hate the most is that the people who protest against termic vehicles are the ones who daily buy stuff on shein, temu, aliexpress, thinking that there will be no consequence on the environment.
Unluckily, who make the laws don't want to understand this.
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DTRE tool holderHey there, I'm the owner of a 2005 Yamaha DT 125 RE. Since I bought it, a year ago, I felt the need for a place to put some useful tool and other stuff such as a rain cover to always carry with me. I know that many other bikes have a space under the seat made specifically for this, but the DT does not. So I decided to create my own tool holder!
First I created the cardboard prototype. Then I used fairly thin iron sheets, which I cut and bent to size based on the shape of the prototype. I painted everything black, I moved the cables that go to the license plate and the indicators a little and I reassembled everything. The result was very beautiful, but there was no system to get the tools out. I extended the two saddle screws with knobs with female thread and threaded rods. In this way the screws can be removed from below without too much effort. I attach photos of the finished tool holder. I hope you enjoy. Let me know if you have any questions or suggestions!Here are some photos:
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