XS650 Craigslist postings depository

[Team Junk]

It's one of those rare SX models.

 

[Mailman]

https://porthuron.craigslist.org/mpo/d/yale-yamaha-650-sx/7259198869.html

Some potential, at least it's got a title

Needs a bigger windshield!

 

[Team Junk]

I had a Arthur Fulmer fairing on Old Brown that was pretty similar. While not at all attractive it made wearing a ball cap and a Marlborough hanging from my mouth possible .

 

[gggGary]

Minneapolis area 80 with spoke wheels, lot of new parts $1000
https://minneapolis.craigslist.org/ank/mpo/d/duluth-1980-yamaha-xs650/7256316158.html

 

[Sickfitty]

Listed as a '75, looks like a '79 to me.
https://www.facebook.com/marketplac...96/?ref=category_feed&referral_code=undefined

 

[member28833]

Yup, 79, and a nice deal too !

 

[GLJ]

Must have saw what the XS2 sold for on BAT

 

[jetmechmarty]

Must have saw what the XS2 sold for on BAT
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Get it while you can!

 

[Mailman]

I’ve been watching the values on the early bikes creep up and up in the last few years, much the way old Triumphs did. My ‘76 Bonneville, I paid $4000 for it with a fresh ending build, I sold it two years later for $5500, I couldn’t buy it today for less than $7-8000. Maybe the early 650’s are going to follow suit?
My XS2 will be 50 years old this year! That is pretty amazing to me!

 

[jetmechmarty]

They'll go up until those of us who care to own them are gone. Model A Fords got pretty high before they dropped way off.

 

[member28833]

I’ve been watching the values on the early bikes creep up and up in the last few years,

This year especially there are just not many XS650's for sale in the Pacific Northwest. I just watch Craigslist most every day. Today there is only one !
I have noticed a few local XS's over the year with what I use to consider very high asking prices. Some very unfinished, rough looking, near naked "cafe" or "brat" bikes still have an asking price of $3,500 ish.
I use to think XS650's would not ever be worth even $3k in good trim. Now, I'd not part with either XS for just that.
-R

 

[jetmechmarty]

I think the PNW has the highest prices. I just bought one for $50 and it came to me. I rarely see any bike that isn't HD and I don't really see that many of those.

 

[member28833]

I think the PNW has the highest prices.

I believe that is correct. However, California seems to be where to sell a bike. I think I could truck one to Cali, surf a day and drive home in the profit even

 

[jetmechmarty]

I believe that is correct. However, California seems to be where to sell a bike. I think I could truck one to Cali, surf a day and drive home in the profit even

There are four XS650s in my garage. One I bought new, one for $35 at a junk yard in GA, one for free in VA, and the last for $50 in a Memphis 'burb. True, only one of them was nice and running.

 

[member28833]

I've only been fast enough to pickup one $50 XS650. An untitled, stripped 82 with 70 wheels. Made several hundred $ off of parts immediately and still have the whole engine dissambled on the floor. I'd pick one of those up anyday possible..

 

[halfmile]

They'll go up until those of us who care to own them are gone. Model A Fords got pretty high before they dropped way off.

I started watching the model A`s when I was in HS. You could but a pretty complete one for $300 or less. IMHO The Shay Reproduction ruined the value of the model A an the Hot Rod versions were out selling the originals. I`ve had both and I`d take the Hot Rod any day. At the Barrett Jackson & Mecum auctions there are no young buyers of the few model A`s that sell there. Even worse are the 55-57 Baby T-Bird`s. That market is totally unpredictable.

 

[jetmechmarty]

Do you think it's fair to say that what's hot is what was hot when we grey hairs were in our youth? It looks that way to me. Mustang is still hot and I believe it's because of Baby Boomers.

 

[halfmile]

If it wasn`t for us Baby Boomers there wouldn`t be any Hot Rod-Muscle Car market today. If I could get my hands on a "Time Machine" I`d go back and do it all over again. I probably wouldn`t change a Damn thing either.

 

[gggGary]

Ooh ooh ooh it's SO close to me.
https://madison.craigslist.org/bar/d/wyocena-rat-bike/7260688798.html

 

[650Skull]

Did you buy it............gone already............someone has a great buy............got a gold automatic nose picker when you go over bumps or the frame flex's.........