TellyTubby
XS650 Member
Hi Ladies and Gents. I was a member under a different email but lost the details some time back. I never introduced myself under my old ID, so I am here to bare my soul and say hello.
I bought my first XS650, a 77D in 1980 and we put off our wedding for around 6 months to buy it. My wife got her 77D 3 years later and we still have both. We've had a couple that we have sold on, but we've grown out of that nonsense now.
We have a 3rd 80E that had sat outside in someone's garden for 18 years, I took pity on it and built it into a caff racer, but it can easily be returned to standard as I don't like to chop up old bikes.
We hope to ride our 650s around lots of Alps passes next year as this is somewhere I've always wanted to take them. I've done it a number of times on an XS1100, GL1000 and Z1 but didn't fancy taking the Indian Chief around those hairpins.
I hope that you don't think that I am being indulgent but I have posted a few random images of our 3 current XS650s plus one that I sold many moons ago (that's the 3 together).
I bought my first XS650, a 77D in 1980 and we put off our wedding for around 6 months to buy it. My wife got her 77D 3 years later and we still have both. We've had a couple that we have sold on, but we've grown out of that nonsense now.
We have a 3rd 80E that had sat outside in someone's garden for 18 years, I took pity on it and built it into a caff racer, but it can easily be returned to standard as I don't like to chop up old bikes.
We hope to ride our 650s around lots of Alps passes next year as this is somewhere I've always wanted to take them. I've done it a number of times on an XS1100, GL1000 and Z1 but didn't fancy taking the Indian Chief around those hairpins.
I hope that you don't think that I am being indulgent but I have posted a few random images of our 3 current XS650s plus one that I sold many moons ago (that's the 3 together).
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