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I bought this today..
- Thread starter The farmer
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Nice ride! And welcome
Welcome aboard!
Tell us a bit about the bike and your plans for it?
Tell us a bit about the bike and your plans for it?
Looks nice. I like the gold accents, but the gold side covers are a bit much for my liking, but to each his own. I spy a 750 kit on there. PMA?
Well that bike has had a lot of work done on it, looks very nice! Welcome to the forum!
The farmer
XS650 Enthusiast
Thank you.
The farmer
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Thank you. Well the frame is 83, the motor is not
. That's about it. All modification are made by professionals, I hope. I will try to ride it for a year or two. Then we will see...
The farmer
XS650 Enthusiast
I am totally agree on the gold side covers. Gold is for neck and fingers
. The guy a bought it from didn't know so much about it. Thanks for the 750 comment. I will look in to that...
The farmer
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Thank you!
The tell tale sign is the size of the cylinder fins. A stock 650 jug has smaller cooling fins that the head. The 750 kit is uniform size with the head.
The farmer
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Thank you again!
A Heiden Kit perhaps (given location) https://www.heidentuning.com/xs650-...ers/cylinder-big-bore-750cc-80-mm-detail.html
Lovely Jubblee; and welcome from WALES the land of song and frightened sheep!Thanks for letting me in. Not my choice of colors, but a nice bike. I hope. JPS F1
The farmer
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It's almost like my old Triumph. It had a morgo 750 kit.
I love Wales! Tom Jones and Drew Picard!
The farmer
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And the nature is maindblowing....
Lovely bike. Don't know about the shocks. They look like some cheap Chinese productions, but I could be wrong. You may want to take it easy in righthanders. The 2-1 exhaust that the "experts" installed will (not might, will ) ground in even moderately assertive cornering. ((Please don't ask how I know this.) It may serve your riding style, but if not you'd be well served to replace it with single wall 2-2 pipes and free flowing mufflers. Those Keihin knockoff carbs may cause more grief than they're worth; an expert stylist (lots of them out there) might install them, but an expert tuner (harder to find) wouldn't touch them with a 10 foot pole (or a 12 foot swede). Good luck. Enjoy!
The farmer
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Thanks for many good adwais. Yes the shocks are PRC shit i think. Carbs works.... Poops som times downhill. I will lock in to it. I have owned several H-D bikes with the same brand.....
Thank you. Well the frame is 83, the motor is not
Nostalgia kicks in I bought a multiple times crashed one 1985 for $ 800 Stalled on my way home shorted rotor.
Thinking if it last a year its OK
I was in Norway with it,,
Remember the low 0.5 meter walls that prevents a car going into the fjord many meters down ... thinking hitting that wall and down you go.
Almost 40 years later I am still saying the same thing
If it just lasts another year its OK ( OK I had one in between )
The farmer
XS650 Enthusiast
You have been in Norway! I am Norwegian. I think it last a year or so.....
Hey farmer, welcome.
Nice rig. Couple of points.
The same guys who sell the 750Kit with the big fins, also sell a 650 kit with the big fins, so just maybe, it could be still a 650.
I think Griz1 forgot to put his glasses on or I'm as blind as i am deaf................those carbs look to have chrome tops that look like BS34's to me.
Left side..........Off my 83. They came from the factory coloured black
Nice rig. Couple of points.
The same guys who sell the 750Kit with the big fins, also sell a 650 kit with the big fins, so just maybe, it could be still a 650.
I think Griz1 forgot to put his glasses on or I'm as blind as i am deaf................those carbs look to have chrome tops that look like BS34's to me.
Left side..........Off my 83. They came from the factory coloured black
