Is this an XS2

[Ted]

Bought this XS650 a few weeks ago which looks like an XS2. The frame/engine number isS650 204905 but when you look at vin number lists it appears as a TX650. Are the ally wheels after market?

 

[TwoManyXS1Bs]

Where's the "frankenbike" button?

Serial numbers say '73 TX650.
XS2 tins.
The top triple clamp looks like the '73 "366" TX650.
Left exhaust valve cover is missing the '72-'73 decompression feature.
Alloy rims came later...

 

[txxs]

Agree with TwoMany.
Also the lower front forks are 73 TX650.
Looks like the basic bike was originally 73 TX650 however the tank is 72 and the rims are 74 or later.

 

[gggGary]

Do thte frame engine numbers match? Do you have carbs.
Yeah it sure looks like a Johnny Cash special.

 

[gggGary]

The good news is that a 73 TX can be built as a pretty red 72 and only the snottiest 650 snobs will know the difference.

 

[txxs]

or vice-versa - if you like the blue (the best looking?)

 

[fredintoon]

Hi Gary, txxs,
"There's only two colours to paint a bike; one's black, t'other's the colour fools paint 'em."
And Ted,
those wheels are stock XS650 from later years & IMHO the best looking wheels the bike ever had although they're a bitch to keep clean.

 

[weaselbeak]

or vice-versa - if you like the blue (the best looking?)

73 Blue is easily the best looking

 

[fredintoon]

73 Blue is easily the best looking

or perhaps this? My stock '84 Heritage Special tank.
Dunno what the tank panel's official Yamaha colour name is but when I had shoes that colour it was called Oxblood

 

[5twins]

I think you're probably better off with the later front wheel. The '72 disc mount was rather odd and funky, to say the least.

 

[azman857]

Nothinging wrong with a "bits-a-bike"....Shoot, I have a '77 KZ with an '83 forks and a '82 engine and post '80 wheels.....All KZ......

 

[Bob Kelly III]

At least their all Yamaha parts ! that's a step in the right direction...... a friend of mine had a Honda-yama-kawa-zuki !!!!!!
the problem was remembering what parts were what make on the thing... going to the bike shop he had to hit every bike shop in town !
hahaha !
...... good find ! it'll make a nice bike !
Bob........