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Let's See The XS's
- Thread starter XS650RR
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Apparently you are close. Good on you. I just launched my winter project 3 weeks ago and understand your feelings. The balance of life, needs and desires shape us. I am disorganized. The "Red Bike " finally launched. Truthfully it could have been 6 weeks sooner but I over thunk each step.
Custom bikes are never finished! Most builders enjoy the process of designing, fabricating and building, I for one, am always thinking up new additions, improvements I can include in the build. For all intents and purposes, this bike is finished, but in reality it will never see the road and never be finished, that is my enjoyment..
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Today I'm going into my workshop to work on my 'finished' bike, always something to do, always something to redesign, always something to rebuild, that is the nature of building custom bikes. Today and probably the next week or so, I'll be revisting my single points conversion, always I find a better way of doing things. next week I may revisit the eletrical harness I built, or the airfilters, or the fuel distributor, or the brakes, or some other thing I designed and built. Always, always, always, something to improve upon. but never will it see the road, not with me on it at least, it is simply my dream, my work, my reason to draw breath. As long as I draw breath I shall find something to do where I find enjoyment, that is the meaning of life!
Maybe I should come and give it a test ride so you can give me a post ride debrief...
I had @MU1MT1 ride my tracker when I had jetting close.
Truer words were never spoken. This is certainly my reality when building custom stuff. The finished product, if it is ever truly finished, can sometimes be almost secondary to the enjoyment of building.
JohnStead
XS650 Member
1978/2015 Build
270 deg crank rephase, Probe 270 ignition, Web 59a cam
270 deg crank rephase, Probe 270 ignition, Web 59a cam
Another calendar bike?
robtattoo
Someone said there'd be cookies???
Just picked up today. There are a few things I need to do & a couple I want to do, but I'm already back in love.
Thats a beautiful "Survivor" right there. Please dont hack it up...
I see it has the one year only rear drum brake/mag wheel combo, I have a nasty one of the same year I was saving for a Street Tracker, not sure I'll ever get to that one though?
robtattoo
Someone said there'd be cookies???
I'm not planning on doing anything irreversible. I was going to cut the seat flat, but I'm thinking, now, that I'd rather save the factory foam & cover & just buy a replacement. I've ordered a set of replica Triumph T140V handlebars to replace the Buckhorns, but I'll put them & the seat back if I ever decide to sell it. But I doubt that's going to happen.Thats a beautiful "Survivor" right there. Please dont hack it up...
I see it has the one year only rear drum brake/mag wheel combo, I have a nasty one of the same year I was saving for a Street Tracker, not sure I'll ever get to that one though?
NJRaised
XS650 Member
Here’s my “new” xs850 special.
Very Nice!
Frank47
XS650 Enthusiast
More likely the antique rider.
Apparently the new battery fixed the electric start(?)
Frank47
XS650 Enthusiast
Yep. $100 Yuasa fired it right up. Ankle’s lots better too.Apparently the new battery fixed the electric start(?)
Excellent.
Last Saturday we got out for a great tour up island to Nanaimo area and dropped into the Suzuki/Royal Enfield dealer. My buddy Richard test rode the 650 Interceptor, and then I did, the other of us riding my TX650A. Pretty darn smooth, that RE! Along the way we stopped at the Forestry Museum in Duncan. Was it 46 Georgia asking about that place? Richard's bike is the '78 Kawi LTD 1000.
