Not sure if this will help. I pulled the tach cable off of my parts bike. Looks to be original.
Sheath is 30 3/4 inches.
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So, Jim's cable is just a tad longer than mine.
Good. If I get an OEM replacement, it'll probably be the length I'd like.
Otherwise, I could get a MikesXS cable, and shorten it...
 
Yours certainly fits better. I added a zip tie to the frame because I didn’t care for the way it looped forward away from the frame. I ordered the cable from Mikes. Here are some other XS2 reference photos.
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G'day B-O-B,

Every time I look at Elvis I am convinced it would make a Jelly Fish go hard.

GW
 
My guess is your cable sheath may be 29-1/2", a bit shorter than mine.

Your cable is shorter, and looks too long.
My cable is longer, and looks too short.

The only differences I'm aware of are:
- Your cable routing would be shoved a bit rearward by the hydraulic manifold on the bottom bracket (triple tree).
- We use slightly different instrument mount plates. But your instruments look to be the same height as mine, comparing their spacing above the headlight shell.

I guess we'll see what Jim finds...
G'day 2M,

Just asking, but why do you quote imperial measurements when you are referring to a metric machine??
 
And, I've given thought to starting a different thread, "What on the XS650 is non-metric?"...

....darned near everything if you either divided by 25.4 or multiply by 2.20462....

....except for the tires on most bikes, the valve stems and perhaps the base diameters of the light bulbs I think.
 
....except for the tires on most bikes, the valve stems and perhaps the base diameters of the light bulbs I think.

Honest Pete I didn't see this post before replying to 2M's new thread!
G'day 2M,

Just asking, but why do you quote imperial measurements when you are referring to a metric machine??

Not too many metric tape measures laying 'round USA junk drawers.
 
Honest Pete I didn't see this post before replying to 2M's new thread!


Not too many metric tape measures laying 'round USA junk drawers.
I would make sense to go all metric, wouldn't it? And stop measuring stuff in trotters, thumbs, arms, furlongs, horses, bushels, and all that other stuff that you all got from the Brits ages ago, and that the same Brits pretty much have abandoned, except for maybe the pint ;)
 
I would make sense to go all metric, wouldn't it? And stop measuring stuff in trotters, thumbs, arms, furlongs, horses, bushels, and all that other stuff that you all got from the Brits ages ago, and that the same Brits pretty much have abandoned, except for maybe the pint ;)

Make sense? You thinking you'll get this from the USA gummerment? We were so close we could taste it in the 60's. But the no-nothings won with, we are the best make them use our system "logic".
 
At least the US stuck with one type of measuring. Canada has been on the fence since the ‘70s - metric for temperature, road distance, speed and gas - imperial for any other length, weight and volume.
That was industry not wanting to retool their entire world. They had to do it anyways and Joe sixpack is stuck with the mess.

PS pipe threads are mostly SAE with a little JIS jiggering. (of course)
 
That was industry not wanting to retool their entire world. They had to do it anyways and Joe sixpack is stuck with the mess.

PS pipe threads are mostly SAE with a little JIS jiggering. (of course)
Well, BSP, BSPP, NPT, and various metric pipe threads make my work interesting at times, when dealing with hydraulics and 2000 psi/139 bar pneumatics......
 
At least the US stuck with one type of measuring. Canada has been on the fence since the ‘70s - metric for temperature, road distance, speed and gas - imperial for any other length, weight and volume.

Hi peterg,
cartoon showing a Canadian building site:-
Foreman tells customer "It's metrification day, which is why we are attaching these 40 centimeter closets to those 16" spaced studs."
Note that the use of centimeters is confined to the building & garment industries. Everyone else uses millimeters.
And measuring fuel consumption in litres per 100 KM has no instinctive meaning because it's backwards to the old-fashioned MPG
or to the KM per litre metric equivalent.
 
I would make sense to go all metric, wouldn't it? And stop measuring stuff in trotters, thumbs, arms, furlongs, horses, bushels, and all that other stuff that you all got from the Brits ages ago, and that the same Brits pretty much have abandoned, except for maybe the pint ;)

Hi arctic,
wrongo! Complicated measuring systems stretch the mind.
The former British Pound, shilling and pence money could be divided by any of the factors of 240 and all it's coinage could be counted on a weighscale
because a half-crown weighed the same as five sixpences or a florin and a sixpence or a shilling and three sixpences.
Try that with the modern British money, eh?
And Thumbswidths, Feet, Armlengths, Strides and Fingertip to Fingertip measurements are always available to you and cannot be left at home.
As for the pint, the American pint is one eighth of a US (Queen Anne Wine) gallon and is too small a volume to serve beer in.
A British pint is one eighth of an Imperial gallon and is just right.
British beer is best served not at room temperature (70ºF) but at cellar temperature (55ºF)
Except for a rare few, American beers are best served at just about freezing to mask the nasty taste.
 
If you are on the fence with metric or just dont know any different this chart makes more sense to me. No one heard of NASA mistake forgetting to convert feet to meters.....Crash Down! Houston we had a problem...a big one!
I loved @Jim tape measure in a post. Just and only imperial with marked fractions..never seen one before ever!
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