Got my DKW 125 going - What model is it?

[grandpaul]

I just got my DKW 125 going, but the petcocks leak too much to ride the bike. (See post under wanted - petcocks).

This bike is orange with chrome sides on the gas tank, leading-link front suspension, sunburst head on 5A engine - What model is this?


GrandPaul,
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[DinoM]

Hmmm, sounds like my '71 DKW 1251/5A. However, mine has a brownish/copper tank with chrome sides..maybe yours has oxidized? If yours has the aluminum sunburst head with 3 lower fins cut off to allow for a side pipe exhuast, I believe its the '71 DKW MXer! A mighty fine steed indeed! I've got spares if you need some.
Dino Medina

 

[grandpaul]

One man's 'Orange' is another man's 'brownish-copper', I guess. It is quite oxidated. I need petcocks!!!!!


GrandPaul,
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[grandpaul]

Dino: Can you possibly list the spares that you have? I would also like to know about the rear seat mount; mine has what appears to be a "Home Depot" general-purpose galvanized hinge clamped to the rear frame rail that the seat pivots up from. This arrangement doesn't look 'stock' to me - what is yours like?


GrandPaul,
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[deek]

GrandPaul, there isn't supposed to be a hinge
on the seat. The seat base should have a bracket rivited on it. The bracket bolts to the frame in the rear and behind the gas tank
in the front. E-mail me about the petcocks.

 

[kc]

All 3 of my DKW/Sachs have a hinge from fender to under rear of seat. . Stock.  Front of seat bolts through bracket on frame.  Seat hinges to service airfilter

Petcocks have been a problem.  Please post source when you find one.  I've got some new material from Olson Gaskets but haven't make new washers/seals yet.

Kc
To many bikes


 

[grandpaul]

If my DKW has the hinged (at the rear) seat, is Orange/Copper with chrome sides on the tank, and has leading link front suspension, radial finned 'sunburst' head on a 5A engine, square-pattern holes on the expansion chamber heatshield and a very triangular air box, is it indeed a '71?


GrandPaul,
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[grandpaul]

Looking at a DKW forum, I still cannot determine whether my 125 is a '70 or '71; they appear to look identical from the 2 pictures I saw. I also saw a '72 which had a totally different heatshield on the pipe so I am narrowing it down to '70-'71. (Could it be a '69?)


GrandPaul,
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[deek]

I'm on my third Sachs/DKW (69, 71, 72)and none of them have ever had a hinged seat. Unless they are older. Bought the Sachs new back in 1969, the DKW new in 1971. The 1972 aquired recently. GrandPaul, check these sites.
Look at the Gallery.
http://members.aol.com/_ht_a/herculesig/hercules_e.html
http://www.narma.org/euro/german.htm