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This is an actual picture of my 1972 XS2 dated 2001. The bike is original except for the gas, battery and oil! I still have the original tires, chain, title, tool kit, points, you name it. I am the third owner. My brother found this near Lansing MI. The original owner kept it in a heated garage and it only had 3k on it. My brother put more miles on it than any body when he owned it. He took it out to Sturgis, SD (on a trailer) and it was Bike2 Bike3 Bike4 Bike5 Bike6 Bike10 Bike11 Bike12 Bike13 Bike14 Bike15

Bike20 Bike22 Bike23 Bike24 OldBlue's ebay special. 1976, mostly original. I ride almost every day in the riding season. Livonia, MI Internet Find Source unknown The bike: 82 650 Heritage Special (factory blacked out version) Purchased: winter 2001-2002 as a non running but all there bike pretty much used up by a college student, for $600.00. Got it running and rode it that summer with lots of oil consumption (qt every thousand miles) Winter 2002: complete to the frame tear down including *painted frame *new clutch *new pistons *valve job *painted engine to factory specs *brakes gone through *wiring harness gone through and all connections cleaned or replaced *mucho polishing * numerous grommets, etc. replaced Special thanks to Mikes XS who had all the parts at a reasonable price. Total investment so far, purchase, parts and machine work, $1,800.00. Since then: I ride it every chance I get, just about to turn over 20,000 miles. Last summer I added the MAC 2 into 2 exhaust, what a difference! Bike30 Bike32 Bike33 Bike36 Bike37

I just recently joined the Garage. Here some pictures of my '77 XS650. I picked up the bike from a guy who works at the Nine Mile Ranger Station just outside of Missoula, MT where I live. It was in OK shape but only running on one cylinder. It had a hung up valve.... I got the valve fixed. I put new pistons and a cam chain in it...new sprockets...drive chain...had a seat upholstered from an old Honda...put some short mufflers on it...hacked off the rear fender (used to do that with Harleys, can't afford to take the hack saw to them anymore)...put on a Triumph repo tail light...rattle canned it flat black. Pretty cool bike. My sixteen year old son is learning to ride it. I just picked up another '77 for a hundred dollars and it is in the process of morphing into a cafe racer. Thanks for the great site. norsky My street bike is 72 frame 77 engine 34 vms 78 tank stock motor Bub pipes megas gutted A-R stuff in them brakes by UMMM and Barracudas by Chen Shin. -Dwayne Burge 80 special. in peices right now carbs torn apart for rebuild. petcock rebuild. clubman bars. waiting to put on new cables (clutch and breaks), mini guages, 11.5 rear shocks, longer gear lever. still need to buy solo cafe racer seat , possibly new tank, break rebuild kit, new chain, taillamp and smaller siganls, peashooter pipes. fun fun fun! -heymeng Here's my '82 SJ. At least it started that way. Bought it last summer on E-bay with only 1,091 miles on it. Did a full conversion to an Started out as a Heritage went to regular bars, master cylinder full size rims now that I've found people, who don't think i'm wierd for spending time on a 20yr old bike more to follow


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1978 XS 650
« Thread Started on Mar 5, 2010, 9:58pm »
I custom made the seat on this bike

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« Reply #1 on Mar 25, 2010, 11:00am »
You did a nice job...I like the butterfly...
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« Reply #2 on Mar 31, 2010, 1:09am »
Thanks!
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« Reply #3 on Mar 31, 2010, 6:51am »
paddlegrl,

Looks great! Next time you post a pic, try reducing its size to about 700 pixels wide.
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