speaking of new member in "rat bike class"

[yamahonkawazuki]

just got my hands in an xs650 basket case, ie frame title 2 engines, (only 1 is good lol), also several seats, various rusty parts, and to top it all off a sportster gas tank will post pics b4 long :mrgreen: hell it was free so i wasnt gonna turn it down

[Church6360]

i never turn down free motorcycles  

but so far i've never been offered a free one either  

good luck, and can't wait to see pics

[NiceGuysFinishLast]

hmm... if anyone else is giving away free motorcycles, let me know... I've got access to the machine shop here... it could be a good learning experience for me... not to threadjack though, hurry up and let's see pics of the new bike... for me to drool over, since I have none of my own... :mrgreen:

[The Buddha]

Aaaah the ole XS 650 eh ... Mine is sold, but I can tell you a thing or 2 ... they are surprisingly quick (mine was 82 heritage special) and it vibrates like a MOFO ... Yea light bulbs, whole headlight housings, dash, guages, battery, tank, relays tacked to the side sub frame with grommets, T/S'es all of those are considered perishables ... If its not bolted into the frame or welded on, its likely to fall off ...  :x  ... having said that, it will run like a beast ... easily out gunning the GS and other little bikes like skeeters in the 0-60 range ... BTW there is a couple companies making flat track stuff for it ... and OH yea ... you may not think so ... but the left 1/2 of the air box and right 1/2 have this oval plastic bridge sorta thing ... if you leave that out ... its like dropping in K&N pods in a bike ... huge air flow ...
BTW you might have seen ... the dash has no internal lights ... the T/S'es that are old harley items fit on the handle bar and they drop just enough light as running lights on the guages so you see it at night ... great idea I thought ...
Cool.
Srinath.

[yamahonkawazuki]

as soon as i can find a working camera, ill post, but it is fugly right now, hell someone spraypainted the fenders camo green, pipes are rusty as well as some rust on the wheel wires but hey cant argue with the price, lol, besides my hd got repoed so im bikeless, gonna start searching for another gs project b4 too long, also looking at a suz. intruder :dunno:

[Jake D]

Screw all that.  I want to see a flat tracker kit on the XS.

This thread, more than many other's I've seen, needs pics!!!!

[yamahonkawazuki]

[pandy]

Nothing a little elbow grease won't cure...  :dunno:

:mrgreen:

[Jake D]

[davipu]

so my pile of gs runs and rides a week after I got it....

[indestructibleman]

sure, Davipu, but can you load yours into your pickup with a shovel?

[Alphamazing]

Holy crap. That looks like what we have in our garage. We have 3 Honda CBXs in various bits and pieces in our garage, wheels, frames, engines (that engine is HUGE), as well as so much other crap.

[Blueknyt]

loved the CBX, wish i could have gotten ahold of one. things sound nasty around 7Krpm with dual supertraps

[Jake D]

so my pile of gs runs and rides a week after I got it....

So awsome.

[davipu]

that was only about 6 hours of kicking it, the rest of the time I was waiting on parts from the stealer

[yamahonkawazuki]

dammit i want a cbx, lol, and a gs, i miss mine:(