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Hello Everyone, I am selling my 1972 Yamaha XS2. It’s a pretty nice vintage bike, it has about 6600 miles and a lot of original parts. It’s runs and drives great. Aesthetically it’s not perfect. It shows it’s age a bit. But from a distance it looks great. It has a new front tire and tube. It...

The only things that are not original are the mikuni vm34 carburetors and the tank badges. The PO had a later model tank badge that broke. So for the meantime I 3D printed a badge and added a vinyl sticker to the badge. I’ll try and find a real set in the future.

Hey Mailman, my bike is nowhere near and clean as yours, but I do enjoy it!

Quick little ride today here in Northern Virginia.

Just to give an update. I went back and forth with Mikes XS, but to no avail. I am just returning the tubes they sent me and hope to find somewhere else to buy them. For now my old tubes are going back on. At least I put new fork seals on there.

I've contacted mikes XS, so I will just have to wait and see. I am not sure if anyone has successfully ordered a set of fork tubes for a 72 XS2 from them.

Hey thank you for the response! I will definitely try to bevel out the pitting on the old tubes. We are getting some nice weather this week here in Virginia and I would like to enjoy some of that on the bike. @GLJ Yes, there was a slight difference in length. They also had some additional...

Hey everyone, I am trying to rebuild the forks on my 1972 XS2, but I am having trouble sourcing new fork tubes. My old fork tubes are badly pitted. I went ahead and ordered some new fork tubes from mikes XS, item number 27-2002. I hit a bit of a hiccup because my old dampener rod will not fit...