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First timer with an 81 xs
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Nice looking already!!
Welcome to the forum.
Welcome to the forum.
Lot of good meat on those bones. Looks very nice.
Welcome..........bike looks nice and has some upgrades done.........Looks like the PO has done some good work
Nice. I like 2 into 1s. I think they sound great and look cool. Not a lot of love here for them. I put a Duukevic on mine and am very happy with it. Used to run Jardens. Back in the day.
Note; Your carbs are BS34's. Check the bike is Canadian and not a US import, this is because the Canadian BS34's have adjustable needles and different Needle jets and usually the jet set up is also different to the US counterpart..........this make a difference when getting advice on carb set up, especially from US guys, if this differential is not mentioned ............
Yeah its a Cdn bike, vin matches. Thanks 650skull for looking out! Good to know advice!! Thanks again.
Your Canadian spec BS34 carbs are set up a bit richer than the U.S. ones, but I still think you may need some jet changes for that 2-1. At the very least, you should probably bump the mains up a size or two.
Nice upgrade ! Looks great.
Welcome to the website.
Looks really nice Pony - but don't ditch those OEM pipes as they are difficult to find and someone would probably really love to have them.
Cheers and welcome from Canada's sunny southern coast in Windsor, Ontario!
Pete
Welcome to the site! What part of Canada are you in?
Hi pony and welcome from Saskatoon,
like lakeview asks, what part of Canada, eh?
About the exhaust you took off, perhaps the pipes were the double walled stockers but the slip-on mufflers are aftermarket.
The stock system was a one-piece weldment each side with a crossover pipe. BTW, my Heritage Special's stock system
started out severely strangulated but opened up to a quite nice sound after it got the pointy bar & BFH treatment.
As your bike's rototiller 'bars are already history, next thing is to drill the bejasus out of the front brake disk.
Check if the PO swapped in a stainless brake line and a smaller piston diameter brake lever and if he didn't you should.
And like any elderly bike, check the tires' date stamp. over 5 years old tires are as hard as wood even if they look perfect.
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sleddog83
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Bike looks great. How does it handle?
