Restoration videos normally take a common bike that’s been run to the ground or abandoned, but this is a little bit more special than your run-of-the-mill motorcycle TLC session. Instead of an old Honda underbone, we have a special Paris Dakar edition of the XL125R.
The video opens up with the bike running, which would have been a rare sight in the world of restoration videos, but as you might notice, that’s a shot of the bike running after it was worked on. The real situation is that the motorcycle was worse for wear before the restoration session started. The video may span 37 minutes, but the clips are sped up, likely to accommodate the long hours it took to take the bike apart, order the parts, and account for daylight while shooting the video (most definitely since it says “timelapse” in the video title).
