Recent content by Alexs650e

Lol. I'm one of the lucky ones. I probably spend more one haircuts in a year than her...

Got the chain and tool for $74.19 between eBay and yamahaxs650.com. So under $100. Under 3 digits should go under the radar of my CFO...

Gotcha. No, my plate was sitting somewhere in the middle. So it probably has more life. I feel much more confident re-opening the engine in another 7k miles, now that I'm doing it for the first time. I haven't ridden it since 2019, so I just need to put her back on the road...

It does have 23k miles on it. It just looks in really good shape. Have the tensioner. I might just not update the tensioner, not cut the chain and finish the top end rebuild for now. If the engine survives this, I'll put in another 7k, and I'll do another top end rebuild/check up. Maybe throw in...

I'm replacing the guide and the tensioner assembly. I figured out the cam removal, that wasn't hard. The cam chain guide is falling apart. The cam chain tensioner has grooves from the cam chain, so that needs to go too.

Hello all, I have finally built my shed, purchased a tool bench, pulled the engine out, took top end apart, to find out, in order to replace the camera chain tensioner, I'd have to cut the cam chain. I don't want to cut the chain. I am going to try and replace the riveted part of the new...

I'm IN!!!

Yes, I still have points on mine. Not that I would mind the conversion but to have a spare couple of points and a coil in your backpack ain't a big deal.

Hahaa, niceee... I got no stories yet here, I'm young and young in this country. 6 years here and I got my first bike with my own money here. Luck made it to be an XS650. Very rare in Greece. CBs were more famous. But I was always hooked with old bikes and Yamahas as my first bike was my...

Does it make more sense now? I've edited the original post. It clearly was misleading and insulting

Does it make more sense now?

Ok, agreed, I clearly didn't get my point through. Let me edit the original comment to stop insulting people. Thank you.

I'm aware my friend, never said women don't ride. I want my wife to learn too, maybe she'll catch the bug too!

To me, anything you can fix with your hands and electric at most tools is old school. When you need a laptop then that's it. There are still machines built that way today.