Howdy
vufromlu: I see that you're from Hogtown -
gosh, I'm awfully sorry about your hockey team.
You know, my Mom's ladies bridge club played the Leafs a little while back and beat the heck out of them. I told them to not run the score up - but those old bags just wouldn't lay-off.....
Sorry - back to XS650s and your sidestand problem.....
As it happens, I also have a '76 XS650C and so does my riding pal, Lakeview (he lives near Chatham, ON) - but, the two bikes have different stands on them (mine appears to be stock and his is different - or just bent differently) and so what has been said earlier is quite correct. However, I suspect that the best thing to do would be to take what you have to a welder and show him the figure above in post #6 and he should be able to fabricate a new "handle" for it quite easily. Then just paint it black and you're done.
You might also need a new kickstand spring and you can find them on the web quite easily using the parts number search method given above (
just put the Yamaha part number into your Google search window and you'll be amazed at what comes up).
In fact, just now I went on the Partzilla website and pulled up the same Yamaha parts sketch as shown below. Here is the linky:
https://www.partzilla.com/catalog/yamaha/motorcycle/1976/xs650c/stand-footrest-brake-pedal-xs650c
It turns out that the spring you might want
is still available. It is Item #9 in the figure below and the Yamaha part number listed on the Partzilla website is:
90507-29009-00. It costs the princely sum of $9.49 USD from Partzilla. That means that your friendly local Yamaha dealer could also order it - or you could mail-order it from the US.
Now, the sidestand itself (Item #6 which is Yamaha P/N
447-27311-06-00 ) is NOT available, but I just cut and pasted that part number (
with NO words or anything else) into my Google search window and a whole bunch of listings came up.
Are any of the listing any good? I don't know, but that part number is certainly known out there in the www.
Here's another useful factoid - if you click on the Yamaha
part number in the Partzilla listing, you will get a list of all the other bikes which used
THAT VERY SAME part - and it turns out that the 1976 XS650C sidestand spring was also used on about 30 other bikes - most recently a 1997 Yamaha Virago model.
The key point is that a lot of things like nuts and bolts, bearings, washers, seals, springs etc. were used on
MANY different bike models - and some of those very same parts are actually still currently available from dealers. So - if you go in and ask for a "sidestand spring for the 1976 Yamaha XS650C" - they will tell you "
no way Jose" but if you just ask for the part number itself, they might very well have it sitting in a box on their shelf.
I don't think that anyone has mentioned yet that we really like pictures so be sure to post some of your bike as it is and how it progresses through the "wake-up" process.
Cheers, and again, sorry about your hockey team,
Pete
Odds are someone broke off the long tang, a replacement can easily be ground from a bolt, bent to shape and welded on.
