XS650 Special

Just a few checks and adjustments to do and it is ready to ride.


The exhaust cleaned up nicely. This thing is very quiet. My '75 has much longer mufflers, but is also much louder.

The black chain guard looks great with the new gold chain.





I'm glad the fork dust wipers I bought didn't fit right, since that led me to use the gaiters, which I think look great.

At first I had a set of old Suzuki GT250 bars on it, but I went with some Bikemaster "European" bars, which are a bit lower, and just right. The grips and mirrors are what came on the bike when I got it. I don't care much for the mirrors, so might change them later on, but they'll work for now.



I kept the old sticker on the rear fender.

And here was the starting point for this, the Special model I swapped a Suzuki GS for. I think that with just a few minor changes to take the bike back to it's standard roadster roots, and the Special models look fantastic. I like certain things better than the standard XS, like the slimmer gas tank.

This was the second old Yamaha I got this year, and just fixed a few things and kept it stock. Really a lot of fun for just the cost of a few payments on a new bike.

Now back to some other projects.