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I would send you mine but it will be a few weeks before I redo the exhaust.

Interesting questing. I am really not sure about this. I feel like stainless would work the best but I don't have the equipment to weld stainless. Furthermore, I am undecided about whether or not I would like the exhaust to remain under the bike or route it up over the crankcase for offroad...

I'm going to call it done for a few months. Maybe this winter I'll redo the exhaust and repaint the frame but I want to spend the rest of the summer riding.

Hey man, i definitely drew some inspiration from this build for my own SR, been following for a few months. Can't wait to see it finished.

As some of you know from earlier posts, the original tank was is rough shape with too many holes to repair. The tank I used for this build came from a '78 XS650 and I like the shape and size of the tank much better. Any of you looking to replicate this mod for your own build there are 3 things...

Finished the seat yesterday. I stitched this together myself from marine vinyl, and foam from hobby lobby. Fiberglass shell, couple of bolts, and some rivets.

I wanted to make a quick post about these fenders. The rear fender is a combination of stock rear and a trimmed down stock front making a two piece rear. The front fender came off a cb400 and was trimmed to bolt to the triple clamp instead of the outer fork tubes. I designed and built the...

Where the bike is now....

Been real busy with work lately but got a few more things done on the bike. Cleaned and painted the tank. Went with POR15 on the inside of the new tank ('78 XS650) and a rattle can paint job. Paint came from Autozone.

So you guys can see I have a set of custom shocks on the bike. Here's a couple quick notes on that. Since this was my first build, I did a lot of looking around before ordering these. I wanted the rear of the bike to sit higher and bring in the rake and trail a bit. Stock shocks are 11" in...

Thanks man

This weekend was detabbing and welding on the hoop.

Sorting out the tires and tank. After removing the hardware for mounting the old tank I was able to mock this one in place. It looks alright and I think I'm going to go with it. This tank is from a '78 xs650. I haven't seen one used on an SR before and probably because its a bit large. I like...

I put a battery, a petcock, POR15 in the badly leaking fuel tank, and an generic seat on it and put about 50 miles on it. Ran beautifully. Opened the carb, pristine condition. Then I stripped the fuel tank. It was held together by a patchwork of RTV, JBWeld, and body filler. With all that...

This humble bike was a $500 craigslist barn find. Just over 3400 original miles. From what I was told, and having a title that confirms, this bike was ridden most of its miles at Northern Michigan University's basic rider course. Passed hands three times since but doesn't seem to have been...