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I haven’t had an XS or any other bike with points for years. Is setting points on an XS always such a pain? I’ve set the gaps but it’s difficult to be 100% sure with feeler gauges as the points stay open for ages, and it isn’t easy to see the highest point on the points cam. I’m not sure my new...

This frame doesn’t move. All the guts of the plunger have been replaced with solid machined struts. Looks like a plunger but that’s as far as it goes. It’s rigid.

Inlet and exit for the fluid.

Mocking up the bottom yoke so brake fluid can run through it.

Mocked up front end. 35mm XS forks that are 5" over. Slab yokes with some plain aluminium risers and genuine 70's Z bars from the good ol' US of A. Everything from Ebay.

First picture has the bike with XJ550 wheels fitted, but for a 70's chop they were just too modern. I looked at loads of wheels and then remembered Kawasaki CSR650 wheels had great looking rims. Found this rear, and then a matching front wheel a few weeks later. Rear wheel was rebuilt with new...

The plunger springs had no real strength and everything felt floppy, so I designed some solid struts to take the original wheel mount and also the original springs so it kept the plunger look but was now rigid.

No idea where the early pictures are but this is just sat together, everything is loose and there are no guts in the engine.

For the past few years I've been building a chop and it seems that 99% of it has come from Ebay. It started with an Uncle Bunt plunger frame that had an XS motor in it, allegedly owned by one of the Outlaws MC in the Midlands, UK. The motor had been cut out of the frame, so no engine mounts were...

I make that a non numbers matching D model with a C model forks etc.

Well, it just goes to show you can't rely on documentation to get information from. I've cleaned the frame and engine numbers and it's not matching. Frame is 447 - 709121. So the reg documentation has the first digit missing. The engine number is 447 - 700462.

As it stands yesterday.

The hideous front mudguard is gone and went in the skip, as did the bent bars, bent indicators and battered headlamp bucket.

Yeah, I meant to say that essentially I have an altered TX650A, not a TX650.

Its dog rough really but I'm not too bothered about originality. I'm going to use it and do a bit of a rolling restoration as I go along. Hopefully should have it up and running on the road next week. I just wanted to know what it actually was as I had a D model previously and I knew it wasn't...

That's great thanks. There is no headlamp fail warning light so they must be Euro gauges, so as its an import they must have been changed. The carbs are definitely later as I've had to change some of the internals and a float bowl, and the throttle housing only takes 1 cable. The hub cover is...

My current long term build that gets touched as and when I have time. 72 XS2.

That’s the model I saw too. I’ll put a pic on.