The 'leftovers' project - XS650

[Pattheswede]

I didn't find that much ... and what is, is in swedish. But he did work at SE Service with Stellan Egeland, who have been in a couple competitions, also here in US. Here is a link to a magazine ... http://www.mcm.se/ (in Swedish) ... but you can check out the pics
And if it's not alot of stuff I can translate some.
Anyway, brakes and hub are from Honda CBX 550 as also the fork, he cut the spokes (Y-star) and ... well here's my bad english ... replaced with other spokes...

 

[Pattheswede]

Found a picture on a simular bike CBX 550 1982

 

[DrJ]

Yeah those are the same front brakes. 83 CBX550F was my first bike. It's a faux drum, a plastic shroud covering up the discs. The rotors were made of iron and rusted easily. But I can't figure out how they were fitted onto spoked rims.

 

[Tim]

Rims and hubs got dropped off for powder yesterday - should have them back in a few days. Buchanan stainless spokes/nipples arrived Friday, so hopefully I'll be lacing wheels next weekend! Going to give it a shot myself as I don't want anyone else to scratch the rims or hubs . I'll likely give up 20 minutes in and take them to Mark, our local wheel builder and give him the $50 per wheel to lace and true and balance them. Honestly I'd end up taking them to him for truing and balancing anyhow.

Pics to follow! RAL 9001 white if anyone cares to look it up. Should be a soft off-white, creamy but hopefully not too yellow.

 

[Tim]

Picked up the powder coating this morning - looks great! Not too creamy but definitely off-white. Looks a little whiter in person than in this crappy photo. Time to lace some wheels.

 

[sxecafe]

Word.

 

[JustinLonghorn]

Make it so, sir!

 

[john83]

Looking good!

 

[Autotek]

Sweet!

 

[Tim]

Wow - OK, I think I might have laced my rear wheel. First time doing this. Truing it will be another matter - I don't have a wheel stand nor the quality spoke wrenches / experience to make that right, so I'll probably get my regular wheel builder to do that. But I wanted to try lacing it and didn't want him to worry about scratching the powder.


Was easier than expected.

 

[Tim]

Oh, and the bolts were left in to plug the threads. The spacer you see in the hub was NOT left in place but was coated separately, just so nobody thinks I'm an amateur

 

[VonYinzer]

Rad!!!!

 

[Pattheswede]

Wheels looking great!
Still not sure if I will use original spokes or a couple of old kawasaki...

 

[DrJ]

Did you grease the nipples? Makes it much easier to tension and true.

 

[JRK5892]

that off white is spot on!!! such a nice color... you can use 2 jack stands to work as a wheel stand for when you true. my dad taught me this way works awesome, zip tie works as your guage

 

[sxecafe]

That looks awesome.

 

[Tim]

I gave up on the front rim. Bloody silly, and I marked up the rim a bit trying so I'm handing it over to Mark for him to bother with. I mainly just wanted to give it a try and see what they were going to look like. Standard rims no problem, but this goofy 3 spoke oddball front rim has bested me.

If I was super particular I'd probably get the front rim re-coated. We'll see. Just one spot where I knicked the coating and the spokes rubbed on the white marking it. Yes, I should have used masking tape on the rims. The rear just went together so easy.

Not building a show bike - going to ride this thing hard and the rest of the bike won't be super polished, so a few marks on the white rim isn't the end of the world but we'll see. I paid for 2 pounds of RAL9001 powder and might get a couple other bits done, so might just get the rim blasted and done again anyhow. UGH.

 

[sxecafe]

I've done it... still have to re-touch my wheels after lacing them up. Even better was when they came back from getting trued up even worse. It happens but you have the right idea in that it's going to get shit dirty from riding it so...

 

[Tim]

Front wheel done Just took some coffee and a quiet room.

 

[JustinLonghorn]

Purrdy.