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Hello again everyone, I stopped at a cycle shop where a man who claimed to have a great deal of knowledge of xs650s watched me pull in. He said as I got off my bike. "I noticed your bike is still pulling after you pull in the clutch." I told him that it is hard to get into neutral but I...

Hello everybody, Has anybody had a problem with a bs38 carb letting a stream of gas run out of a pod filter about the same diameter as the inside of the fuel hose coming into the carb? I can take the carbs off and pop off the bowl and nothing seams to be binding, no trash. This is the...

I finally got to take mine out and ride it. Dont have no speedo on it so guesstimation on mileage is about 80. Man it was fun. I got out on the 220 bypass here in Asheboro, NC where it is supposed to be 65mph and and tryed to keep up with some of these people and my glasses were sinking up in my...

Hey yall, I just had a brand new battery installed. We drove it into the shop under the bikes power. He puts a battery in and now it starts fine and idles but when you put it in first it cuts off, repeatedly. I asked him if he reattached a wire and he said no. The brand new battery after being...

Hello everybody, I need to replace my shifter shaft. I looked at the Haynes book and really dont know any more than before. What I want to know is, Can you swap them out without splitting the case? It looks like you take the covers off both sides but I am not certain. If anyone has done this...

So you dont have to throw them out? you guys have actually used them after they get rust pits in them? Sanding with 1000 grit? If that works I am thinking about putting my fork tubes in the lathe and polish with 5000 and 10000 grit paper that I just happen to use as a clipper blade sharpener. I...

Look I dont claim to know much. The older I get the less I know. But my bike, the one that starts on the fist kick as long as you dont have any air filters on it, (only floods with them) has nothing under the points and advance covers! I dont know anything anymore. Is there anything about this...

Hello Everyone, Im new here. Im trying to build me a bike. It seems to run really well and it starts on the first kick without the Mikes xs air filters. Put the filters on and it floods bad in just a few kicks. The man that rebuit the carbs said he set the clips down one on the needle for use...