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That's a good call, thanks. I lowered the price a bit.

I have an unrestored stock 1975 Yamaha XS 650B. 6,440 original miles. I am the 2nd owner. Great all-original condition and meticulously maintained. This bike was recovered from a Detroit residential garage in 2012 with 2,500 miles on it where it had sat since 1986 under a heavy canvas cover. A...

My bike sat for about 3 weeks while I was out of town. When I got home and started riding it again, she began to hesitate pretty badly when I accelerate at any RPM. It progressively has gotten worse as of the last time I rode it a couple days ago. Before it sat, I had tuned it up and set the...

I've read a couple posts on polishing up chrome exhaust pipes but I'm wondering if these methods are effective in getting the greenish water stains my batter is leaving dripping on the left side exhaust pipe (I know, I should have just sprung for the gel battery). Would oven...

Does anyone have an exploded illustration or photo of what the gas cap assembly looks like on a '75 XS650B? I think whoever had the bike before me jacked it up a bit. The tiny holes weren't lined up, which seems to have caused the vent to be closed up.

Thanks Classic, I'll give it a go. I did replace the rubber gasket inside the gas cap as the old one was toast.

I have a fully stock '75 XS with only 3,000 original miles. It has a new battery, the carbs were recently cleaned throughly and original jets replaced with new (stock jet sizes). Timing was recently set as well. She had been running really well until a couple weeks ago. It starts up...

I'm having the same issue... Need one of these, but out of stock at Mike's. Anyone else have any suggestions? Thanks.

I live close to the ocean and don't have a garage, just a covered car port. I cover my bike with a heavy duty nylon bike cover every minute I'm not riding it but it still is starting to develop some surface rust on the chrome and other random metal parts. Is there any way to prevent this other...

Crisis averted.... Threw my original verification DMV paper in the trash and rolled the dice and went back to AAA... I told them the speedo had gone over 100k miles and that was that. They didn't even do a VIN check again, just wrote down my info and handed me a plate and registration. Bam!

I think what I'm going to end up doing is taking it to the DMV for vin verification and tell them that the odometer actually has 102,500 miles on it and doesn't work anymore. I may even disconnect the speedo cable just for fun. That way I'll just end up with xxxxx on the title like with any...

I have a '75 XS650B with 2,500 original miles. I bought the bike in Michigan and had it shipped to where I live in California. The last time the bike was registered was in 1986. So now I'm in the middle of transferring the out of state title and registering it here and having some issues getting...

Killer, thanks for the help. Jmink did you get the rebuild kit from MikesXS?

Thanks for the replies. I pulled the bowl off the right side carb and the float and needle moved freely so I took the float off and inspected it for holes but didn't see anything. I cleaned everything up again and bent the tab on the float up maybe 1/16" at the most to see if it would help get...

Just picked up a great '75 XS650B with only 2,500 original miles.... a true barn find. Sat in a Detroit garage for over 25 years before my uncle grabbed it up a couple months ago. It's since been gone through - new battery, carbs & petcocks cleaned, tank dipped, plugs, etc. It runs really...