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Hey everyone, glad to be here! So I have a 75 XS650 which has been sitting in my garage for approximately 2 to 3 years. This fall I plan to start rebuilding it or should I say reassembling it with my son who is 11. I have very basic knowledge when it comes to rebuilding a motorcycle so my...

Newbie here...I am very happy to have found this excellent XS650 website. I just learned that I could have repaired the speedo & tach dials on my XS650E and would have saved a hundred eBay bucks for a used cluster. I bought a instrument cluster, the vendor ID'd as a 650 cluster, but its not...

Hey, folks! Got a question... I'm in the process of fitting the engine back into the frame. I went with the approach of doing it with frame in the upright ( I know some do it with the engine and frame on the side). Got it in with a bit of a wiggle. The lower centre bolt went in without an issue...

So a while back I came to be the owner of an XS650 that was found on the eastern shore in a barn with the spare parts of a second bike. $300 dollars and borrowing my buddies truck it ended up in my work shed and now that the process of titling is done the bike is officially mine. I have...

Hi all, In a few weeks I'm looking at doing my first road trip to pick up a newly purchased '77 650D in Chicago and ride it back to my home in Brooklyn. I have an '80 XSG (Special II), my first XS but not my first bike. Still, I'm a newbie. I've been riding it for a couple of years but...

Hi guys, My dad got me interested in bikes a few years a go, we're british and own Lambretta scooters. It's safe to say I've got the itch and now want a bike as my main vehicle (in English weather, I must be mad). I came across xs650 bobbers a while ago and love the style, my favourite non...

Just want to get aquatinted with everyone, this is how she looked when I got her up until now!

Hey all, I've been reading through this site for a couple of months now, reading a lot of stuff for Newbies. I was intending on buying a bike next spring, after I took the Beginners Course... however, things change in weird wonderful ways :D I received a text from a buddy while at work asking...

I've been on this site now for 2 years come this Christmas. I've come a long way working on my bike, but I've never put all of my work into a single build thread to document any of it...so this is it. Background: I was a 36 year old father of two when I decided that I was tired of sitting at...

So I have an XS650 (1977) that I picked up in February that I have been making into a bobber. I paid an "expert" to wire it up for me. I live in Sacramento CA by the way. Well this expert, who has been working on bikes for 30 something years, yeah he f%^ked up my bike something fierce. The...