eidemaddin
XS650 Enthusiast
Great!
looks like a flat head 4 stroke?V4 2 stroke?
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Wooler. How does this even work?
connecting rods and crankshaft.Now that’s a valve train!
I should have noticed that it is a 4 cylinder, I guess we are so accustomed to conventional engineering that we fail to see the obvious. I worked on German machines most of my life and some of the ground up engineering ideas that are truly superior in their application seemed very odd at first site.connecting rods and crankshaft.
apparently the pin directly above crank center is fixed center for a bell crank between piston connecting rods and crank connecting rod.
A 55 Wooler
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On Saturday, I bought another bike - not an XS650.
I want to replay my misspent youth when I traded in my 1975 XS650B for a brand new - leftover 1979 Suzuki GS850G (see below). I stupidly sold the Suzuki in about 1994 for a pittance....NEVER sell a bike - lesson learned.
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@lakeview found yet another XS650 in a small town near us - and the guy also had a somewhat rougher GS850G for sale cheap...so....I went up there and bought it.
This new bike is not pretty (it sure doesn't look like my red bike depicted above), but these old GS Suzukis are tough, and so I fully anticipate a successful resurrection and will show photos when they are available.
Lookin' forward to a resto thread Pete....This new bike is not pretty (it sure doesn't look like my red bike depicted above), but these old GS Suzukis are tough, and so I fully anticipate a successful resurrection and will show photos when they are available.
NEVER sell a bike - lesson learned.
I believe if there’s no pictures, it didn’t happen.PS - the "new" bike is complete but it is going to need paint....@Jim.
Pete