Recent content by twinrider

Very nice! I was hesitating on ordering one of those of Dime city cycles, but now Ive made my mind! Any pics of the whole bike with seat mounted on, just to see proportions? Thanks, very helpful review!:thumbsup:

those are some solid welds there! I rather like to see full penetration on a bike frame, than cosmetics, IMO! With a good powdercoat job, those will look dope.

One last tip would be to run your engine 5 minutes and flush oil, two times at least, to be certain no dust or remaining debris are stuck in there. Got this one off an old Yamaha mecanic, been there for 30 years, he says he always flushed 3 times after any rebuild.

I would not exceed 200-250 degrees. Most tank liners are epoxy-based and does not tolerate heat well. I was on the way to powdercoat mine and backed out for this reason.

just my 2 cents, I run a powdercoating shop and clear bare metal either with clear powder or clear ceramic coating. As was said, key is prep and most importantly a very short delay between polishing and coating. As far as I know almost all powder and ceramic coating are DTM coatings. they have...

To give a shiny original casting look, go with glass beads as was said. Soda will clean but will leave a matte greyish look to cast parts. I did mine with glass and it looks just fresh out of factory!

Know what???!!!! Just missed a 1974 in good working order and quite clean going for 300$!!! noooooooo! just tell me you bought it Vise! and let split the parts with a XS brother! LOL

Hey Visegrippe, Cool to see guys from my neck of the woods here! I will take a little trip to a bike scrapyard close to my place. I hope to find a few jewels, I'm looking for a tank, clipon handlebars, headlight, ultimately a complete engine! Will my 256 engine parts fit in...

New cases, hum... I doubt I could score any good condition used cases around here easily... I'm in quebec, canada and these bikes are not easy to come by. most bike mechanics I've spoke about XS650 were all telling me parts were impossible to come by. But that was before I discovered...

thanks for the replies, I will take my casing to a machinist that I know to make the repairs. Is there anyone with a pic of the shifter drum outer end (the broken part in the pics)? I would like to see how it is in its original shape? that would help my machinist...

Hi, I bought a TX650 1973 a few months ago for 400$, literally a barn find. Needless to say she needed love, lots. I finally took her completely apart 3 weeks ago and I've spent many nights reading on this forum since. Ran some testings on the engine with a friend mechanic and we...

Great infos there!!! Big thanks to all posters!

Hi, New user here, been reading for a month and decided to ask for help. Just got a pretty beaten up barn find, I believe it is a 1973 TX. Bike needs lots of love and I started to tear it appart a few days ago. Found some major electrical issues... Kill switch is not working at all, found...