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  No damage to me or bike luckily as it was about 5mph!
Was in town and seeking a parking spot across the road. The maneuver was a half circle of around 2.5 car widths from a standstill. Saw my chance, moved with slight lean and little throttle....and the front wheel just disappeared left. Me and my bike in the floor! Swear I didn't have hand on front brake, although was shadowing it till throttle use.
I checked the road for any oil or wet stuff, but nothing other than good tarmac.
  I had a cheap front tyre recently, not run in yet, still shiny on far edges. Also new pads and pistons had only about 30 miles of road. Did replace master cylinder which holds good pressure and seems smooth.
Is it possible front disc brakes can lock up without lever use? I have checked the brakeline and no restriction there!
Could it be a front forks suspension issue?...The bike only past its MOT days ago and I watched the man test EVERYTHING!

Well, I've found a universal cylinderlever setup and finally found correct size caliper piston kit. Will buy next week.

P.S. Now on the road finally! Headlight issues were just a case of swapping wiring around...Replaced a few short bits of wire on the headlight to connecter, as copper was too thin (Chinese) and also did a proper soldering job/heatshrink on all wiring. Works fine and the 35/35w H4 buld illuminates quite nicely!
Taking things easy, as I'm a 50yr old just jumping back on, plus getting used to bike traits.

 Hi guys.
Put my 125 through UK MOT. Failed on a few things.
Then main problem is my front disc brake. I bled the system to put new pads in and unfotunately got air through the master cylinder. One of the 2 caliper pistons was ok to push in, but the other was not easy at all. Finally got both to 3 - 4mm still showing. Tried a normal refill and slowly found it wouldn't take fluid back into the brakeline. Blew through hose part with mouth and its quite clean and free. Knew the master cylinder to be ok, or so I tought.
 Struggled like hell over 5 days to remove both pistons to check caliper chambers. Finally got them moving with pliers.....Hmmm, a little damage, but mostly on top edges, so not a real problem A little muck in chambers - cleaned. Rubbers were nice, but I did put a couple of scratches on sides of pistons. Anyway, cleaned pistons and they went back in as expected, more force to pass the 2nd rubber seal on each piston. I set them to about 4mm showing to gets pads in and caliper onto rotor.
After watching Youtube, I did a reverse bleed with a large syringe and see through bleedline. After an hour, I could only get fluid back upto top of brakeline, (undid it to check). Realised that the smaller return hole in master cylinder was maybe blocked. I poked needles etc, anything, the unblock it. Washed it through many times with just water. Working the lever, I finally got bubbles from smaller hole! Mounted master cylinder back in position and continued reverse bleed till I got a tiny bit of fluid covering both holes in master cylinder. Would not fill anymore, so I topped it up.
 Then I switched to the normal bleed process. Worked lever fast to get vacumn, kept lever pulled in, undo bottom nipple 3 seconds, few bubbles, fluid etc, tighten nipple....repeated many many times! Bleed line was always sunk in old fuid to stop air getting in system. I CANNOT GET PRESSURE ON THE BRAKE LEVER AT ALL! Brake fluid is getting through because a little is coming out eachtime I open the bleed nipple. Also tried slow pulls on lever whilst watching for air bubbles.
ANY IDEAS GUYS???  IS IT LOOKING LIKE A WEAK MASTER CYLINDER?

Dear God!!!
Have played with headlight before, but this new (Chinese so I found out too late) is the worst £20 I've spent in years.
It looks ok, then try and fit the frickin thing!
Oh, the size isn't what they said, BITS FROM THE HARDWARE STORE
Oh, the 10mm mountings have 7mm nuts supplied for them, NUTS FROM THE HARDWARE STORE.
Oh, the grooved plug is correct BUT the wiring is in reverse???, BITS FROM HARDWARE STORE....I carried on working in the dark and messed that up. Had lens bit sat in a dip on right hand handle bar area. It sat there happlily for an hour, whilst I farted around making connectionsd in poor light.
FINALLY got it all together after 5 frickin hours! Ignition on, fire her up, try the lights.....YESSSSS for 3 seconds....NOOOOOOO, the headlight fell and broke 3 of 4 wires I had sweates over!
So, I decided to go into the main town (long busride) and get bullet connectors instead. Also thought I needed to make up an earth connection wire, as the old body was metal and the new one plastic. NOT SURE ON THIS, but its on there now.
I did all the connections nice n tight. Attached lens to body....IGNITION, fire up, lights....YESSSSS.....NOOOOO!
Lights yes, beam WAY OUT OF LINE!
The glass on lens was supposedly ok, but somehow was not now??? Ok, nasty job....removed lens clips to move lens, so it lines up. Stuck markers on rim and lens and compared it close quarters to the plastic body and mounting screws. Alittle fine tuning and suddenly its way off! After a couple of minutes, I find that the bloody glass is sliping on the lens! Jesus H!
So another trip to the hardware store for superglue next week, (totally out of cash now).
Just one more thing....why is the dip beam only a third the brightness of main beam? 6 feet away from a white wall, main beam nice, dip beam you can barely see it. Bulb is 35/35w

Hi gn2,
Have had a response from DVSA and they have narrowed down my idea of whats ok and not.
I now have enough info to buy and fit a headlight without fear of getting pulled over by Police.
A phonecall to a motorbike dealer I used to visit, who do MOTs, confirms this as well.
Would love to get old full metal light unit from a scrappy, but they all seem to be online automated here. They ask for reg. number and because my bike is over 14 years old, it always draws a blank!
I know what to order now, thanks guys.
P.S. Just had a Duro front tyre delivered from Poland for £29. Seems ok and reviews were good. Fitting myself, did one in the past.

No worth it really. Its the beam reflector thats bubbled. Seems I have a very odd size headlight.
So, I'm buying a new cheap unit once I know what is legal, cash is low!
Have emailed our dear government vehicle agency (DVSA) with a few questions. Apparently they haven't been infected by modern management yet, so I should get some definite answers lol!

EXAMPLE OF MODERN MANAGEMENT UK STYLE; Gov. agency: 'We know of one man in the south of England who has an eye squint and gets affected by ?///? style of headlight. He is still legal to drive and even though his doctor wants him off the road, we cannot revoke his licence as this may or may not affect his human rights'.
'PLEASE CAN YOU NOW COMPLETE THE ETHNIC DIVSERSITY, RELIGION, SIZE OF YOURE DICK AND HOW DID WE DO SURVEY'

Don't know about the USA, but this country is heavily infected with modern management. The mistakes and vague answers to questions is killing the UK! 

Seems that any Kymco dealers don't stock anything for my model, just other odd websites have a few bits each. Basic running spares are fairly easy to find, tyres, chain/sprockets.
I bought a museum piece! Found a website by accident that a complete geek is running in the UK by himself!He lists how many of each model of motorbikes are on or off the road in the UK (still registered with UK DVLA). There are 16 of my model on the road and 21 SORN (Off  the road). The guy deserves a gold medal for dedication!
He has sort of done me a favour with that info. There was only 380 of my model sold in the UK to begin with!
Can't see a Taiwanese bike going up much in value because of rarity! But I fully intend riding it.
Spares a hard to find, but still most can be found in odd places. Found on Youtube that early CK125s have the same engine, so no worries there. I have bookmarked dozens of pages for later use!
Nearly clicked BUY on eBay for a 2003 Yamaha XJ600 Diversion 2 years ago, but we had the worst storms in living memory and I opted for 4 wheels! Sort of glad I didn't by it, due to having never ridden a weighty bike before. A 125 is a sensible start after 20 years of 2 wheel absence!