Hello,
Just saying hi and introducing myself.
Bought an xs650 today that is in need of some help. I've had cb's and sportsters in the past, but was lured in by the extensive aftermarket for these bikes and the cool looking projects everyone builds from them. After getting it home and looking it over i feel like it might be a little more screwed up than I'd like but im only 500$ into it so It's not the end of the world if I needed to part it out or something. He had a title too, which is great, since so many of these old bikes dont have titles around here.
its a 1978. the dude put extended fork tubes, and a king and queen chopper seat on it. he didnt cut or grind the frame anywhere. He pulled off a lot of the stock parts, some of which came with it. The wire harness doesn't look too bad, just some cut wires where he removed the turn signals. The electric start doesn't work. bike had good compression, and I heard it run for a minute before it cut out. I pulled a plug out and it was fouled out pretty bad and old.
my goal is really just to get it running and reliable again. then maybe somewhere down the line weld one of those cool hardtail, or brat bike assembly's. I love having projects to work on and have finished and ridden a few successful ones over the past 5 years. This is probably the most ambitious, but I'm looking forward to learning a lot and having a good time doing it.
Anyways, just wanted to say hello. Hopefully you can see the pics I'm trying to attach.
Just saying hi and introducing myself.
Bought an xs650 today that is in need of some help. I've had cb's and sportsters in the past, but was lured in by the extensive aftermarket for these bikes and the cool looking projects everyone builds from them. After getting it home and looking it over i feel like it might be a little more screwed up than I'd like but im only 500$ into it so It's not the end of the world if I needed to part it out or something. He had a title too, which is great, since so many of these old bikes dont have titles around here.
its a 1978. the dude put extended fork tubes, and a king and queen chopper seat on it. he didnt cut or grind the frame anywhere. He pulled off a lot of the stock parts, some of which came with it. The wire harness doesn't look too bad, just some cut wires where he removed the turn signals. The electric start doesn't work. bike had good compression, and I heard it run for a minute before it cut out. I pulled a plug out and it was fouled out pretty bad and old.
my goal is really just to get it running and reliable again. then maybe somewhere down the line weld one of those cool hardtail, or brat bike assembly's. I love having projects to work on and have finished and ridden a few successful ones over the past 5 years. This is probably the most ambitious, but I'm looking forward to learning a lot and having a good time doing it.
Anyways, just wanted to say hello. Hopefully you can see the pics I'm trying to attach.
