11/5/11

XS650 Special

Just a few checks and adjustments to do and it is ready to ride.
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The exhaust cleaned up nicely. This thing is very quiet. My '75 has much longer mufflers, but is also much louder.
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The black chain guard looks great with the new gold chain.
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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.
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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.
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I kept the old sticker on the rear fender.
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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.
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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.
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Now back to some other projects.

2 comments:

Time To Fly said...

Looks great man, very cool!

Toadeus Maximus said...

I'll second that, very tidy.

Nice work.