Chi2
XS650 Enthusiast
Man- that is one of the best rants I have ever read! Seriously
It is a bummer to see our beloved XS go from affordable assrattler with some old school charm to become the wet dream of every budding fabricator with a hacksaw. Who is to blame? Yamaha! They never should have stopped making them in the first place.
It is a bummer to see our beloved XS go from affordable assrattler with some old school charm to become the wet dream of every budding fabricator with a hacksaw. Who is to blame? Yamaha! They never should have stopped making them in the first place.
Whine? That's an open invitation to rant if there ever was one! I don't whine about Mike Lalonde, I just hate his business practices and what he's done and make no bones about it. I was doing performance mods on XS650 suspensions and motors when it was the most despised motorcycle on the road, and I could pick up parts bikes for $50 and runners for $250 (challenged) to $500 (in nice shape). Then Lalonde came along with his Walparts act, a bunch of newbs went "Ooo, me too!", and what's followed has been high prices, butchery, and bad boy posturing from a bunch of people who are long on hours watching OCC and very short on dues. Rant over.