BEFORE and AFTER

Picked it up at a garage sale for $500 in 2010.

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After, in 2012:

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One question, have you considered one of those low, chrome, Lucas styled tail lights ?
It’s just my opinion that that would really look sharp on your black fender..

I have one and tried it. I like the '78 Special tail light better though. I have a special seat and the lucas style light looks good with it, hpwever.
 
Hey Pete, it must be the quality of the stock seat covers :umm:...I have 2 of them. Top one is from my '77 and the other was 'on' the '79SF. They do have good pans and stainless trim though.
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Maybe it’s your diet....?
 
Jim has a thread on his restoration and posted a contrast of when he bought the bike and then the finished product.
I thought this would be a great name for a thread. EDIT: since most forum members have before and after pics, how about limiting one before and one after?
Here's one of mine.

1980 XS650SG
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That’s crazy cool!
 
Those are from Mike's..."chrome-dirt, short track" #25-1088.
I like the bend, but they aren't knurled where they mount on the triple trees. You should roughen that part up.
 
Before, 1978 XS650SE, done up to a Triumph Thunderbird theme, and bought as allegedly a runner:


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But the bike was not a runner and had a lot of hidden problems. That was end of May 2019. Below, 13th August 2019:


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Sufficient issues dealt with for the bike to run, at last! Just back from it's first half-mile of running in who knows how long.

And the mock Triumph Thunderbird has gone, now a sort-of XS2 tribute.
 
Before, 1978 XS650SE, done up to a Triumph Thunderbird theme, and bought as allegedly a runner:


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But the bike was not a runner and had a lot of hidden problems. That was end of May 2019. Below, 13th August 2019:


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Sufficient issues dealt with for the bike to run, at last! Just back from it's first half-mile of running in who knows how long.

And the mock Triumph Thunderbird has gone, now a sort-of XS2 tribute.

Raymond,
Well done! Bravo! You knocked that bike together in record time! And the results are stunning! I hope you get years of enjoyment from it. I hope we see lots of posts from you , riding around in your beautiful countryside. Now about getting a photo of your bike in front of a castle...........:geek:
 
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