XS2 on Cycle News

[desmoman900]

Great story about road testing the XS1 and XS2 on this week’s Cycle News
https://magazine.cyclenews.com/i/1543676-cycle-news-2026-issue-09-february-3-v2

 

[Jim]

Can't find it off that link. Got another one?

 

[desmoman900]

Here it is https://magazine.cyclenews.com/i/1543676-cycle-news-2026-issue-09-february-3-v2

 

[Jim]

Here it is https://magazine.cyclenews.com/i/1543676-cycle-news-2026-issue-09-february-3-v2

 

[GLJ]

I found it here.
https://magazine.cyclenews.com/i/1543676-cycle-news-2026-issue-09-february-3-v2/144?

 

[VA1DER]

Great little retrospective. It's a contemporary synopsis of an earlier 1972 article. Does anyone know of how to get at that 1972 original?

I just had an offer on a near showroom quality XS2 accepted and I go get it in a week. I'd love to find this article on it.

 

[Mailman]

Great little retrospective. It's a contemporary synopsis of an earlier 1972 article. Does anyone know of how to get at that 1972 original?

I just had an offer on a near showroom quality XS2 accepted and I go get it in a week. I'd love to find this article on it.

Probably not the same article but here is a link to the Cycle World archive, you can read the entire 1971 magazine if you wish, a lot of cool ads and period articles in there. The link below will take you straight to the full article,

https://magazine.cycleworld.com/issue/19711101#!&pid=50

 

[VA1DER]

That article is outstanding, thanks so much. And here I thought I was pretty up on XS model changes over the years, and this article taught me things I never knew. The needle bearing vs bushing at the wrist pin was news to me (I thought they all were bushing). And I hadn't known about the linked intakes on the XS1/1B.

The article only reinforces my belief in the XS2 as the best of the XS's. But I may not be entirely objective any more.