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Hey Jim! I’m excited to make some progress. It’s been too long.

Nice. Ok thanks 5twins. The flange being offset on the spacer after tear down just made me think it was oriented to a specific side.

Does the orientation of the bearing spacer matter on a front spoked wheel? I’ve seen diagrams but they are all of mag wheels and my bearing spacer does not have a hole.

Red side covers sold.

Hey Halfmile. I really like the stance on your bikes. I have 18x2.5 wheels front and rear, and I am looking at tires that are available in 120/90-18 and 130/80/18. Can you make a recommendation on what tire sizes I should run that would still allow it to have dirt track appearance?

19 front 16 rear

Regulator sold.

Are those Dunlop k180s? What size wheels are you going to use and what size tires did you buy?

I definitely understand. Thanks for some reference pics none the less. Pretty spot on to what I had in mind.

After I posted this I sat down again. I think I was just burnt out last night and frustrated Jim. I was referencing that same thread 650skull. I was just overthinking it. Here’s what I came up with.

Couldn’t sleep last night, tried to lace a wheel. Didn’t think it would stump me. I think I read too many how to’s. Started to overthink everything. It was hard reading threads that involved what was done wrong along the way.

TCI box sold.

Hey those are perfect. That’s exactly what I want but I want to use cone engineering mufflers. Only $45 for the pair, plenty of room for mark up... would you want to make me a pair?

Hey Halfmile. Those are awesome! I’ve come to find out that awesome is normally expensive though. Are those Jemco? Do you have any idea what they might cost? I’ve decided to use a DC Motive upper but I haven’t bought it yet. Here’s a picture.

You’re right but I can’t keep my bike in my condo so I’m stuck hand polishing on my coffee while I listen to Larkin Poe.

Hey Machine thanks for the heads up. When I was contemplating all the tabs to cut off, I definitely gave that some thought.

I like those. Are they stainless? I’m tossing around the idea of single on each side vs. dual on the left. I looked into the Radian, but I’m just keeping the original and going to install bronze bushings. Powder coating is a must. I’m going to keep the original tank but shorten the hoop.

My build thread is up and running. Check it out. http://www.xs650.com/threads/ethereal-1983-xs650.57308/ Also posted the parts off of the tear down that are for sale. http://www.xs650.com/threads/kyla’s-yard-sale-1983-xs650-parts.57309/

Selling parts I am not going to need for my build. Please reference the pictures and send me a private message if you are interested in anything you see and we can discuss pricing.

A friend who introduced me to this forum connected me with some wheels that were being sold by a forum member. They are Mike’s XS 18” wheels and they came with stainless spokes. I was kind of disappointed when they arrived, one is gashed up and the other has minor scratches. It doesn’t look like...