xspattio
XS650 New Member
Hello Forum peeps.
I am new to your forum. I've owned my 1980 XS650SG since 1991. It was my second bike, after a CB360T. I still have it, but its been mothballed since 1997 when I got my 1995 Triumph Speed Triple.
I've had, and still have, other bikes, but I like to mix things up and I've noticed that a whole new generation of riders have picked up on the XS and a whole new world of aftermarket stuff is available. So I've decided to put it back on the road and enjoy my old bike like its a new bike.
In the early 90s all I wanted in the whole wide world was for my bike to be a 'cafe racer'. I didn't have much to go on except for small pictures in magazines, and typewritten catalogs from small British bike specialty companies, so I did the best I could with spray paint and positive thinking (sound familiar, young people of today?) and imagined in my mind that my XS was a Manx Norton and I was heading for the Ace Cafe.
So here we are today, and there's an internet now, and a hundred eBay sellers of cafe parts and a hundred clubs to be a Rocker. I'm a fat, balding middle aged man so I can't get in on being a 'hipster', but maybe I can have some fun and take my XS a little further to being a 'cafe racer' than I could 20 years ago.
So here I am. Hello to the forum.
-Pattio
I am new to your forum. I've owned my 1980 XS650SG since 1991. It was my second bike, after a CB360T. I still have it, but its been mothballed since 1997 when I got my 1995 Triumph Speed Triple.
I've had, and still have, other bikes, but I like to mix things up and I've noticed that a whole new generation of riders have picked up on the XS and a whole new world of aftermarket stuff is available. So I've decided to put it back on the road and enjoy my old bike like its a new bike.
In the early 90s all I wanted in the whole wide world was for my bike to be a 'cafe racer'. I didn't have much to go on except for small pictures in magazines, and typewritten catalogs from small British bike specialty companies, so I did the best I could with spray paint and positive thinking (sound familiar, young people of today?) and imagined in my mind that my XS was a Manx Norton and I was heading for the Ace Cafe.
So here we are today, and there's an internet now, and a hundred eBay sellers of cafe parts and a hundred clubs to be a Rocker. I'm a fat, balding middle aged man so I can't get in on being a 'hipster', but maybe I can have some fun and take my XS a little further to being a 'cafe racer' than I could 20 years ago.
So here I am. Hello to the forum.
-Pattio
