Lologan
XS650 New Member
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 torn-down the engine with my mate and sent off any parts I couldn't take apart due to specific tools (cheaper to send it down to get disassembled than to buy the tools honestly, and only if I do it once). Next step is to finish cleaning what parts of the engine I can work with and replacing gaskets, and prepping the frame to be re-assembled. But I have come to a creative block. I currently have the frame in factory state but want to go more a solo seat bobbed style. I can easily buy a hardtail kit from TC and weld it on but want to keep the softail if I can since I have not done too much hardtail riding and VaB is notorious for shitty roads. I have seen builds that cut and rework the metal to keep the rear suspension but I question where is best to cut and weld. So I give to you all the question of where is best to cut? The shape I am aiming for is a soft-tail design like the Bolt or CMX500(Rebel).
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Full Frame stripped, tank and wheels on just to roll it around:
Dirty, dirty valves off at the sandblaster:
Most the carbon build-up actually comes off easy need to work on it:
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