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This is not really a long XS ride. Only about 2000 miles in less than a week. Long rides are more than that. This was on a borrowed 1977 model XS650. In November 1976 I had an assignment to put miles on some accessory pannier mounts that were in development for Yamaha Parts Distributors...

So you are in Danmark? My son and his family live near Sønderborg.

Here is another picture of that XS650 during that trip. This is on Ruta 3 in Santa Cruz province in Argentina in February of 1978. In those days most of the roads down here were this sort of gravel. And today most of them are paved. Let's see if I loaded the picture correctly....

Well, back in the 1960s I lived in Kitsilano and worked in the mountains north of Vancouver (BC) and my grandparents were missionaries in NWT. But also the Canadian Yamaha distributor participated in my little project by supplying a KM speedometer for that XS650. More recently, somebody...

I'm 30 years older than when I took those pictures and I'm living in Chile now. So there is hope.

Just found this forum, and I trust I am not violating some rule in posting this trivia. I used to be a test-rider for Yamaha in the US when they were in Buena Park, CA. In 1977 I borrowed a 1977 XS650 and rode it to the end of the road just a bit beyond Ushuaia in Tierra del Fuego. I just...