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A nice afternoon for a ride on the Blue Ridge Parkway a little ways east of Asheville, NC. The Parkway is about 30 minutes from my house and it's a great curvy switchback road to get there. Kind of chilly in the shadow of the mountain though.

Today was a beautiful almost-fall day. I spent almost a year working on this and have been thrilled to be riding it for the past several months. This winter I think I'm going to take the number plate off the front and go back to more normal headlight, and probably go from the dreaded pleated...

Was the '79 CBX one of the bikes you lost in the fire, or had you previously parted with it? Thanks, Ted

5Twins & Jim - Thanks! The first time I was messing with it I thought it fit equally well both ways, but in paying closer attention to it I realized it does not. And in shining a flashlight thought the screens to illuminate the inside of it, I can see that the male side goes all the way to the...

To be clear, it is the bottom of this filter that I'm referring to. Thanks, Ted

I figured this would be a good place to put this question: I have an '81 with the vacuum petcock, and the bottom of the plastic filter where it seats in the petcock has a male projection on one half and an oblong hole on the other half. The petcock has two holes just inside the filter mount...

I recently went to get a new driver's license. My license since I was 16 listed my hair as 'blonde', as it has been my whole life. Well, almost my whole life - the clerk doing my license renewal looked at me as she typed away on her computer and said, "hair color - do you want to list it as...

I really like the look of that headlamp. Can you share where it and the mounts are from? Thanks, Ted

Thanks y'all. I don't ride when it's wet out so the lack of weatherproofing isn't an issue for me.

I have a batteryless bike with no speedo components (cable, drive, gauge, etc were all previously removed.) Is anyone running a Speedhut GPS speedometer on their XS? Any issues I should be aware of? How big is the GPS antenna and where did you mount it? Thanks, Ted

I was wondering what mudguard that was. Can you share the details? Thanks, Ted

Am I correct in assuming that other than being a lock washer it's not special in any way, and an off the shelf lock washer of the approrpiate size will be a suitable replacement? Thanks, Ted

It's there. Thanks for both of your help. Thanks, Ted

Excellent. Thanks. At least I have some extra acorn nuts now!

I've been doing a fair bit of work on my bike and discovered that the nut was missing on the bottom bolt on my left rear shock. I ordered some 10mm acorn nuts, but when I went to install it there is questionable clearance between the net and the wheel sprocket (as shown in the picture). I...

I agree on the inspection. I hope the threads are still decent. We will see. Thanks, Ted

On my new-to-me XS650, when I took the rear wheel off to replace the tire I noticed one of the sprocket bolts was broken. I removed the other bolts and sprocket, and then with a fair bit of work was able to drill and extract the broken bolt. I figured since I had everything removed I would...

Thanks for the heads up- I would not have realized that. Thanks, Ted

I appreciate all the help and input, and have been reading through scores of old posts trying to educate myself. Regarding the tank, the attached picture might help. Based on 650Skull's post in this thread, https://www.xs650.com/threads/xs750-tank-on-a-xs650.53030/ doesn't the offset cap on...

It isn't original? Are you referring to the bondo work or the whole tank? This is my first foray into these bikes so I'm pretty ignorant. Thanks, Ted