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Enclosed trailers are good, but unless you have a cam in the trailer, you won't know if anything falls over until you pull up and open it. They will stop things falling out, however...An alternative would be mesh sides on the trailer. Stops things falling out and easy to see from tow vehicle.

Here are the photos used in the ebay sale.

I just picked up a sectioned XS650 engine the other day, and I can't find any information on the potential history of sectioned engines at all. Seller told me he believed that it was sectioned by apprentices or mechanics at one of the state Yamaha distributors in Australia. It has an s650 prefix...

A couple of years ago, I just missed buying this XS650 cafe racer, as it was a bargain, but I kept some photos of it for reference to my own version which I hope to start building soon. There's not much that I didn't like about this one; it has a fibreglass tank, but I prefer an allow tank...

Perfect timing! Just started building my shed to work on my XS's, and they are all bare frame up restos! Count me in!

Hey TwoManyXS1Bs, just looking through the above link, and that's a great idea, specially when you're just starting to troubleshoot a problem and don't want to pull everything apart to check likely culprits! The more I think about it, the more I think you might be right about the pilot jets...

Thanks Angus67 and TwoManyXS1Bs! I'll take your advice as offered, as I haven't had an XS on the road since about 1983, and I wasn't that interesting in doing my own mechanical stuff then. I've done a fair bit of my own work since then, but not so much on carbies on any other bikes I've had...

G'Day all, I've been reading a lot of the great material on this forum for a while now, but this is my first post. I hope I'll be forgiven for this first one being a quesiton, but I just need some help to get started. I've got an XS650C that I've hardly had to touch since buying it some time...