Bout nother hour to home, a good turnout great weather, lots of cool cars.
Weathervane ran great.
No super slab mostly pleasant gently curving state and county roads, mostly around 60MPH with 17 34 gears.
A change to a 33 rear sprocket might be nice, BUT XS1's have a tall first gear, so gearing up too far would result in unpleasant parking lot, grass field manners, requiring clutching for puttering around speeds.
With tapered steering bearings, fresh K70's, and just a bit of weight in the bags, I didn't need to use the steering damper. But experimenting wiggling the bars at speed I could tell it wasn't far away from wanting a bit of knob snugging.
Shocks and forks a bit stiff. I used the factory called for 30 weight motor oil and amount. pretty sure 20 weight would be better.
Spent some time messing with the choke system before the ride, found a slightly bent plunger bracket was keeping one choke slightly open, when adjusted mostly cured idle RPM blubbering and bumped fuel mileage from 40 to 45, there's still a bit of an issue, at idle, next up is swapping throttle cables and twist grip to the new set from Sodak. I think those parts on this bike may have been non stock, mebbie from a previously used set of high handle bars?? Going to change routing a bit also. Gotta be so careful with the two throttle cable set ups.