Picked it up at a garage sale for $500 in 2010.
After, in 2012:
After, in 2012:
One question, have you considered one of those low, chrome, Lucas styled tail lights ?
It’s just my opinion that that would really look sharp on your black fender..
Hey Pete, it must be the quality of the stock seat covers ...I have 2 of them. Top one is from my '77 and the other was 'on' the '79SF. They do have good pans and stainless trim though.
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Jim has a thread on his restoration and posted a contrast of when he bought the bike and then the finished product.
I thought this would be a great name for a thread. EDIT: since most forum members have before and after pics, how about limiting one before and one after?
Here's one of mine.
1980 XS650SG
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Mr. Bultaco, or anybody that knows....what handlebars are these?Here's my avatar build...only have a trailer pic of before because I was so disappointed with my purchase, that I took it directly to my shed for a year or so..
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Mr. Bultaco, or anybody that knows....what handlebars are these?
Before, 1978 XS650SE, done up to a Triumph Thunderbird theme, and bought as allegedly a runner:
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But the bike was not a runner and had a lot of hidden problems. That was end of May 2019. Below, 13th August 2019:
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Sufficient issues dealt with for the bike to run, at last! Just back from it's first half-mile of running in who knows how long.
And the mock Triumph Thunderbird has gone, now a sort-of XS2 tribute.