My first ever bike build!!

That CBR has to be fun though.
I've had to surrender my backpack at the door of some stores.
I tell them keep their paws out of my pack or I'll get them

Airwolfie, your secret is safe man.
You'll have your ass on that bike of yours in no time.
Carbon, I had use my little girls old side sling last time I thought it would be neat to run some papers over to the lawyers office. Yeah I pulled it off, 'cause I'm way too cool for school brother!

Looks great Wolfie! Keep it up!

Airwolfie said:

Didn't get ANY work done partly due to the shite weather and honey-do's that went horribly wrong!!

So we have a cuppa and a ciggie. He reads the instructions. "have you read these?" "Yeah sure I read them, I always read them!"
He replies: " it says here, test light WHEN IT'S DARK............."

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I just told everyone in the fish and chip shop so it will be all round the village tonight and viral on the net by morning ....hope I spelt ya name right ..

Thats exactly the sort of thing I do every day nowadays except I would have stompted on it in a swearing fit of rage and hurled it down the garden

Still ya got a ride on a nice bike out of it so it wasn't all bad

You could still do with some sort of camera and recording device really ...either that or wire the shed door up to a really Big capacitor like out of a camera flash nod nod wink wink

Right, I have decided to do the dreaded LIST!!

I should have done stuff on the bike today, but my tiredness got the better of me!

So lets do this...................

No particular order, I'm just putting it on here as I think of it.

- Mount headlight properly
- Find replacement brake line for clutch and front brakes
- fab steering stop
- finish off foot pegs
- replace tyres
- add chain
- mount front fender
- fabricate rear fender
- mount rear fender
- mount rear light
- mount indicators
- mount coils
- add spark leads
- mount tacho and speedo
- recon front caliper/s(not sure if I want to go twin or single yet)
- paint and drill rotors
- possibly make spacers for calipers/rotors
- mount number plate
- wire entire bike
- mount PMA/boyer(not sure which one to get yet, thinking Boyer as it's local)
- mount rear brake switch
- clean gas tank
- paint gas tank
- plug excess petcock holes
- add horn
- add fake oil tank for housing electrics
- paint fenders
- add key starter
- add hi/lo light switch
- add kill switch
- sort out exhausts
- add neutral light
- add petcock
- install fuel line
- add filter pods
- add oil
- add fuel
- run engine
- tune engine
- get MOT!!

There are probably more, but I can't think of them righ now. If and when I do I will add them.

Wow, a BIG list! Guess I'll be busy this winter!!

Oh my that is a long list.
You can do it!
Down town is bike night here I'm getting ready to take a ride down there.
They close off the main street to cars and trucks.
So tonight is bikes n babes n music!

You can do it! Yeah, that will keep you busy. And yes, you'll be adding to it I'm sure.
Still most of it is the fun stuff.

I am Carbon said:

Oh my that is a long list.
You can do it!
Down town is bike night here I'm getting ready to take a ride down there.
They close off the main street to cars and trucks.
So tonight is bikes n babes n music!

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Pics or it never happened! I will certainly have a go Carbon!

Johnt3 said:

You can do it! Yeah, that will keep you busy. And yes, you'll be adding to it I'm sure.
Still most of it is the fun stuff.

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I hope it's fun, as long as everything goes OK, I'm sure it will be fun!

Hey Carbon, that sounds like some fun man!
Airwolfie, you might run into some snags, but that's what we're here for man!

Kin ell AW thats a big list .. No wonder you didn't wanna do one lol.

Guess you're not going to be riding your baby this side of Christmas huh !

Airwolfie said:

Right, I have decided to do the dreaded LIST!!

I should have done stuff on the bike today, but my tiredness got the better of me!

So lets do this...................

No particular order, I'm just putting it on here as I think of it.

- Mount headlight properly
- Find replacement brake line for clutch and front brakes
- fab steering stop
- finish off foot pegs
- replace tyres
- add chain
- mount front fender
- fabricate rear fender
- mount rear fender
- mount rear light
- mount indicators
- mount coils
- add spark leads
- mount tacho and speedo
- recon front caliper/s(not sure if I want to go twin or single yet)
- paint and drill rotors
- possibly make spacers for calipers/rotors
- mount number plate
- wire entire bike
- mount PMA/boyer(not sure which one to get yet, thinking Boyer as it's local)
- mount rear brake switch
- clean gas tank
- paint gas tank
- plug excess petcock holes
- add horn
- add fake oil tank for housing electrics
- paint fenders
- add key starter
- add hi/lo light switch
- add kill switch
- sort out exhausts
- add neutral light
- add petcock
- install fuel line
- add filter pods
- add oil
- add fuel
- run engine
- tune engine
- get MOT!!

There are probably more, but I can't think of them righ now. If and when I do I will add them.

Wow, a BIG list! Guess I'll be busy this winter!!

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It was a good time last night.
There must have been 1000 bikes there last night.
Mine was the only XS650 that I saw
Mine is the only XS650 I ever get to see.
I do know that there are 2 more around the area I've seen pix of them
I forgot to take my camera.
I did snap one pic with my phone cam just before I left.

I am Carbon said:

It was a good time last night.
There must have been 1000 bikes there last night.

Mine was the only XS650 that I saw

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we always knew you were one of a kind Carbon

Must make you feel a bit special to be the only xs650 there

If that was over here they would all look at you with distain and ignore you like you had some unmentionable disease they might catch lol

That's way too cool Carbon! I wish there was something like that here.
Being the only XS650 isn't all that bad, makes you unique and different. Which like peanut said, makes you one of a kind brother!

Bike looks great. Long list but you are moving along at a fast pace. I would say won't be as long as it has been. Keep up the good job you are doing. Done in no time, hard part out of the way

Great looking bike! I think I should duplicate your list to keep myself on task What handlebars are you using, They look like a tracker/clip-on hybrid?

peanut said:

Kin ell AW thats a big list .. No wonder you didn't wanna do one lol.

Guess you're not going to be riding your baby this side of Christmas huh !

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I'm hoping to have it done by Crimbo! Note the HOPING lol!

I am Carbon said:

It was a good time last night.
There must have been 1000 bikes there last night.
Mine was the only XS650 that I saw
Mine is the only XS650 I ever get to see.
I do know that there are 2 more around the area I've seen pix of them
I forgot to take my camera.
I did snap one pic with my phone cam just before I left.

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Looks like it was fun! Hope they do things like that here!

scabber said:

Bike looks great. Long list but you are moving along at a fast pace. I would say won't be as long as it has been. Keep up the good job you are doing. Done in no time, hard part out of the way

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Thanks Scabber! It does look like a big list but like you said, they all small things! Hopefully they will go quicker than I think it will!

gigibones said:

Great looking bike! I think I should duplicate your list to keep myself on task What handlebars are you using, They look like a tracker/clip-on hybrid?

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Thanks Gigibones! You go it on the nail, trackers cut in half, shortened and stuck onto clip ons!

- Mount headlight properly DONE!!!
- Find replacement brake line for clutch and front brakes
- fab steering stop
- finish off foot pegs
- replace tyres
- add chain
- mount front fender
- fabricate rear fender
- mount rear fender
- mount rear light
- mount indicators FRONT ONES DONE!!
- mount coils
- add spark leads
- mount tacho and speedo In progress......
- recon front caliper/s(not sure if I want to go twin or single yet) Going to scratch that, they don't fit
- paint and drill rotors
- possibly make spacers for calipers/rotors
- mount number plate
- wire entire bike
- mount PMA/boyer(not sure which one to get yet, thinking Boyer as it's local)
- mount rear brake switch
- clean gas tank
- paint gas tank
- plug excess petcock holes
- add horn
- add fake oil tank for housing electrics
- paint fenders
- add key starter
- add hi/lo light switch
- add kill switch
- sort out exhausts
- add neutral light
- add petcock
- install fuel line
- add filter pods
- add oil
- add fuel
- run engine
- tune engine
- get MOT!!

So here's the light mounted. I found a T-bracket, twisted, bent, cut, and drilled the fecker and this is the end result!







I did realise in the end I didn't need a t- bracket, but I had other plans to utilise it, but it didn't work out that way so this did!

And the front indicators are on!





I busy making a template for the Tacho and Speedo, I will hopefully get to it tomorrow!

I also decided to check if the calipers would work with the wheels. They don't........



They do look nice on there though!



So I need to find a smaller alternative to fit them on the forks....................

I see You r getting things checked off the list.

I am Carbon said:

I see You r getting things checked off the list.

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Yep!! Got me motivated looking at it today, I thought I should at least do some of them!!

thats the spirit ! well done that man.

Guess I'd better brave the cold and do somethin myself tomorrow