RockingThePartyDJ
XS650 Obsessed
Hello Everyone, I'm Dave aka "Rock" and have been wanting to Chop and Modify my own motorcycles for a long time and have always liked the XS product line since the late 70's, I actually had my room plastered with sales brochures for every XS in the product line up, and especially wanted a XS650 but didnt have the money to buy one back then. I've owned and ridden motorcycles since I was 14. I'm finally was getting back to looking for an XS650 over 2 years ago and got messed over on my first deal for one and then posted an ad on Craigslist and rescued one from being crushed at the scrapyard, I'll tell more about that in the build thread i'll be starting of my Brat (to begin soon, along with a build thread for a 81 special thats got an 11" stretched Hardtail, a 72 that will be a Street tracker, and my most recent addition a 75 Restoration canidate I picked up from Cafefill on this Forum) and then soon after I found a 78 titled frame and motor that was nearby that i picked up for $350 and that is the one that will be used in this build thread until i come up with a better name lets just use "Yamasaki" so I basically have 5 projects right now 4 of which are titled and 1 i'll have to deal with eventually, I also have a total of 7 engines, which include the ones in the XS's only one is hopefully running condition (the Resto, I just got a battery and will try to fire up in next few days but the rest will need rebuilding "Yay" ) So i've been collecting all sorts of parts for these and tools and after lurking here for the last couple years of which 15 months as a member I gotta get crack a lackin and get something rolling so here we go.
My Plan is to convert or build this into a combination of my second motorcycle, I owned a 1974 Kawasaki F7 which seemed to have some KE 175 parts on it. That bike was alot of fun, I actually owned that same bike twice, I eventually traded it for a car to a friend who was moving to Arizona, I needed a car more than the bike at the time so it needed to go. But I plan on building my own combined version of that bike with the XS at the heart of it. Call me crazy but I'm gonna do it! LOL
Here's what I'm starting with:
My Plan is to convert or build this into a combination of my second motorcycle, I owned a 1974 Kawasaki F7 which seemed to have some KE 175 parts on it. That bike was alot of fun, I actually owned that same bike twice, I eventually traded it for a car to a friend who was moving to Arizona, I needed a car more than the bike at the time so it needed to go. But I plan on building my own combined version of that bike with the XS at the heart of it. Call me crazy but I'm gonna do it! LOL
Here's what I'm starting with:
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