xs650 1979

Hello again everyone, I greatly appreciate the help this forum gives me, and I am having a blast exploring this bike. Now I need some more pointers, in my case some good quality vendors for these carb parts. So, I believe I have discovered the source of my gasoline leakage out of my carb air...

I just bought a 1979 XS650 and got it home yesterday, I saw it on facebook and fell in love with the style, the simplicity, and knowledge of the power and reliability has me hooked on taking care of this pretty much entirely stock 650 from over 4 decades ago. One thing I noticed while riding it...

Hey y’all. Just bought this 79 xs650 from a friend for a couple hundred dollars. Forgive my ignorance this is the first motorcycle I’ve truly worked on. After getting a new battery I kick started it and got it to run while giving it gas, although it seemed to be only left cylinder. Now it won’t...

The day is January 1, 2021 and it's raining ice in NW Ohio right now. I snuck out to the garage to tinker on the bike just a moment ago and thought it'd be a good time to post it to the forum. I'm a newbie here and this is my first post. About two weeks ago, my dad gave me his 1979 XS650...