Gentlemen, I submit for your approval

[hotshoe]

Finished product!

 

[HrdnSwede]

Looks nice!

 

[MaxPete]

Wow Hotshoe - now THAT is a very smart looking bike!!

Very nice, clean and tastefully done. Keep shooting nice photos and about this time next year, that old gal will wind up as Miss March 2019!

Pete

 

[hotshoe]

Wow Hotshoe - now THAT is a very smart looking bike!!

Very nice, clean and tastefully done. Keep shooting nice photos and about this time next year, that old gal will wind up as Miss March 2019!

Pete

 

[hotshoe]

Thanks Pete, I photographed the whole build and will start a thread with all the details when I get back from the Baja 1000 in 2 weeks. Now if my son in law will just teach me how he uploaded the picture.

 

[ThatXS650Guy]

Me likey. Nice job.

 

[xjwmx]

Very good, except for dang cut the kickstand too short again

 

[Jim]

...photographed the whole build and will start a thread with all the details...

We're holding you to that
Very nice!

 

[weekendrider]

hotshoe is that a 19" on the rear?

 

[YamadudeXS650C]

Very nice !
May I ask where you got the Yamaha decal on the tank?

 

[fredintoon]

Nice.
Not that it won't get nitpicked all to hell when you post the build photos.
But nice.
Although, why the 197 on the side?
That ain't a Villiers engine.

 

[hotshoe]

hotshoe is that a 19" on the rear?

Yes it is a 19" rear wheel. I made all the adaptors.

 

[hotshoe]

Very nice !
May I ask where you got the Yamaha decal on the tank?

I had Omars make it for me.

 

[hotshoe]

Nice.
Not that it won't get nitpicked all to hell when you post the build photos.
But nice.
Although, why the 197 on the side?
That ain't a Villiers engine.

The reason I run 197x is that was my last earned AMA # back in 1974

 

[fredintoon]

The reason I run 197x is that was my last earned AMA # back in 1974

Hi Hotshoe,
for me, 197cc is the swept volume of all the Villiers-engined James, Francis-Barnett & DOT bikes we all rode back 'ome in the 1960s.
'Wotcha buy this time, Bert?" "Another bleedin' 197"

 

[Brassneck]

I dig it! Very nice and glad you got a pic of it in it's most "Clean" state... on the track, the mud will be caked on pretty good in short time, I imagine.

 

[Paul Sutton]

Very nice!!! Could this be the missing link that the Yamaha XS650 evolved from?