LanarkXS
XS650 Member
For posterity...
I was reading through this thread and noticed that several fellow Canadians mentioned having 36 tooth rear sprockets on their Specials and one Canadian mentioned that 34 was standard.
My Canadian 1980 XS650SG owner's manual states that the XS650G and XS650SG has a 36/17 ratio.
For whatever reason it appears that the standard is different for the Canadian models.
Also as one would expect with the larger sprocket the original chain has 106 links rather than the "standard" 104.
mike
I was reading through this thread and noticed that several fellow Canadians mentioned having 36 tooth rear sprockets on their Specials and one Canadian mentioned that 34 was standard.
My Canadian 1980 XS650SG owner's manual states that the XS650G and XS650SG has a 36/17 ratio.
For whatever reason it appears that the standard is different for the Canadian models.
Also as one would expect with the larger sprocket the original chain has 106 links rather than the "standard" 104.
mike
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