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There was a nice non-titled running one here back a couple months ago for $350. Wish that were still the case. Right now there isn't much within a 4 hour radius, so I guess I should just play the waiting game. I've looked decently often for a second xs750 when at school and there have been other...

I may be a mere "kid" still, but that doesn't mean that I don't know my way around a shop. You name it, I probably know how to do it: welding, using an plasma cutter, a lathe, a milling machine, sandblasting, grinders, saws, all that good stuff. That being said, I do not have easy access to most...

I'm debating whether I should try to find a non titled bike on Craigslist and try to use many of the parts from that on my titled frame. I think that might be better from a financial standpoint if it were to get me many essential parts such as the new forks and whatnot.

J-Rod10, can I ask why you say that? It's not that I doubt you. I thought that that might have been the case, but was trying to convince myself otherwise for the time being. Is it due to the decently heavy pitting at the top of the forks? I'll pull the spark plugs again and see if the oil has...

I didn't get a lot of time to work on the bike today. But I did manage to finally get the brake pedal off which makes me happy. That thing has been stubbornly stuck on there and I have been working on it since Spring break. Basically I just used the teeth of a normal hammer and did a swinging...

I wanted a good project, so I am not afraid of the work load ahead of myself. We have two old Johnson boat motors at my home that have been seized and laying around since as long as I can remember. My dad was talking about pouring that stuff into the cylinders because he read online about it...

Oh. No idea why some of these photos are flipped sideways and others aren't. It's even annoying me, so sorry for that.

Oh. I'm quite messy with my tools. I know where they are at all times, but they kinda are just spread all around the bike. If you don't see them in a picture, that is because I kicked them behind myself of something. I also use a skateboard so I can move important tools from one side of the bike...

After a long struggle with the burnt wire harness, I finally got it all out yesterday without cutting too many wires in case I need to use it as a reference for when I make a new one. I definitely didn't take any photos of my process since I am not a fan of all that wiring. So here are just some...

After getting coming home, I worked on it some without pictures. Nothing too exciting happened. Here is a picture after I tried to clean the chrome on one of the forks. I also will show a picture of the second fork from a different angle after I scrubbed that for quite some time with aluminum...

I'm probably just talking to myself on here right now, but I'm new to this so don't hate! Everyone needs to start somewhere. I guess I'll just post some pictures to show how bad the bike is to start off with. Oh, I originally planned on waiting until summer to start anything, but by spring...

I'm going to try to upload two photos here without resizing them to see if that's a thing. Here is my bike with nothing done to it yet besides the gas tank being placed on top to see how it looks.

I guess I should start with some basic background information before I go anywhere with this post. I am a 19 year old college student. I go to college far from home so working on this during the school years is impossible. Also, I am on a tight budget, and thus I'm not sure how quickly this...