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I am in the process of tuning my bike for my new pods and aftermarket exhaust. I told the honey Im heading out to the garage to do some work. Turned the fuel on, key switch on, choke on and started kicking. To my surprise, it didnt start! What the hell, I've been starting up the bike quite often...

Good afternoon all, I recently had bought some tubed tires to have installed on my mag wheels, which say on them "Suitable for tubeless tires". I brought these tires, tubes and my wheels to the local motorcycle shop to have them mounted and balanced. The guy who mounted and balanced my tires...

Good evening guys. I'm in the midst of building a bobber/chopper with a tc bros hard tail. I am curious what width size rear fenders other guys are running on their bobber or chopper builds. I will be running a stock size tire on a 16 inch mag wheel (130/90/16 / MT90-16). I am having...

I have my engine all torn apart and I plan on soda blasting and painting parts of it and I have a few questions about the topic. I plan to paint everything black but the cylinder jugs. If I soda blast the jugs and do not paint them, should I hit them with some sort of clear coat to keep them...

Good evening gentlemen, Today i decided to track the source of my oil leak from under the left side engine cover. While looking for the leak I noticed more oil under the output shaft then I did the push rod. But I did notice how easy the push rod itself was to move up and down, side to side. I...

Hey guys, after just 100 miles of riding after an oil change and filters change i was curious what my secondary oil filter looked like because the first oil change I did when I got the bike had metal on the magnets in the sump oil filter, and a bit of metal on the secondary oil filter. I pulled...

What is the exact different between uni pods and something like a K&N cone filter? Do uni pods resemble the stock air boxes just with little more air flow and cone filters provide the most air flow? Is there even a major difference? Ive read that a lot of times uni pods require little to no carb...

Has anyone had any experience with these muffles? They are the emgo shorty mufflers part #: 80-03310 Im looking for something with a good loud sound but not as loud as straight pipes. They do have baffles in them. Also does anyone else have other recommendations for muffles with a nice loud sound?

Hello guys, just thought I'd post a thread showing how I routed my stock clutch and throttle cables, hopefully possibly helping someone out down the road. I have an 81' special, so of course all the cable are extremely long to start. This will be mainly for specials, seeming as they came with...

Hey guys! I have a couple of symptoms telling me my engine is getting old and probably needs a rebuilt. First off when I first got the bike i did an oil change, and changed the sump filter and the filter in the side cover. I noticed there was a decent amount of metal shavings on the magnets on...

Hey guys, was looking at getting some new exhaust for my bike (1981 xs650). The stock baffles in the stock muffles have rusted out, causing the bike to sound like crab, especially when down shifting. I was just curious if anyone knows if there are any exhaust mufflers that have the same amount...

Hello guys i recently got a set of drag bars (27.5" Length, 0" Rise, 3.75" Pullback) from mikesxs for my 1981 special and began to install them. Everything was going great, I rerouted the clutch cable as seen on previous threads, I went to mount the master cylinder, but then began to run into...

Hello guys I am new to the forum. I recently inherited a 1981 xs650 special. I went to transfer the title, and was unable to do so due to me not having the engine number on the title. So i went home to look for the engine number and cannot find it anywhere!! I believe I read online that it is...