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Hi All. I can see a few SR500 questions on here, so thought it was worth an ask. I'm looking to raise my ( new to me, and now running ) SR500 up as it's a new project that I want to make into a taller custom scrambler. I appreciate the better move is to start with a TT/XT but this bike came to...

Hi Apologies in advance for the long post. The TL;DR is a well running bike has started cutting out while riding after an "upgrade" I made, which has lead to book reading and confusion. The bike is a 1976 based customized XS650. Engine rebuilt and bored out to 750. Hugh's PMA kit. Pamco Pete...

Hi Had a great trip out on the newly MOTd XS at the weekend until 3 miles from home and I heard a metallic sound on the road behind me and the next pull of the clutch gear lever showed whatever had fallen off had taken the clutch out. Some lucky breaks with the traffic got me about a mile up the...

Hi Haven't posted for a while, but was out for the first ride of the new year today and realised the list of jobs I wanted to do over the winter didn't get done. When I put the bike together I did the Brembo conversion and always intended to swap out the industrial rotors for something lighter...

I have some custom straight through drag pipes on my XS with an inside diameter of 1.5 inch ( 44mm ). They need some baffles as they are raising the dead. All the slip in baffles are measured based on the O/D of the pipes, not the inside and I'm struggling to find any that will fit in my pipes...

All Bike has just come together, so I'm taking short shake down rides. Engine was a full rebuild and bored out to 750. BS34 carbs. Drag pipes. Kick only and running a capacitor. The bike is running well ( swapping out VM34s to BS34s made a major difference ) other than in the short runs...

All Bike is done. I haven't done a build thread as most of you would have grown old and died in the time it's take to complete the build. Anyway, it's back and passed the MOT, and I'm now dealing with teething problems. It has an SR500 tank mounted, with an aftermarket ALFA non-vacuum...

All I have a 76 XS with a rear disc conversion performed by the PO. I thought it was something he'd thrown together, but it appears he's followed the basic layout of the factory disc setup. A slight change to the swingarm mean the PO conversion doesn't quite fit, and I'd like to look at...