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The seat is from roc city, pretty sure he's still around here. I tapered the back.

Hey I would but I actually sold the bike a couple years back. In hindsight, I would have just welded some bars across the frame to mount with bolts.

haters gotta hate.

sorry, I sold em a while ago! :-\

Mine is at a point where I can just get on and go. After a loooot on trial and error. Both are daily riders.

Electric start + horns wired up. My ride + best friends ride. They are starting to look like each other...

Yeah Motikan, good to see you active on the boards again. I just finished my top end rebuild, they are fun bikes if you get rid of some of it's weight. The seat is from a Japanese seat company called K&H. Should show up on google. It's handmade fiberglass with leather, super comfy...

Once this rain streak has ended, I'll take her out for some photos. I have the notorious BS34's, known to suck really bad. However, I've got these custom needles made by XSJOHN that make em into great carburetors. I've had the XS to about 90mph, no problems or hiccups, plenty of throttle...

Yes...it's the opposite of everything I've ever known!! ;) No love for my XS huh? I guess I'll have to get my g/f to take some pictures with it lol. Troy, your chop is look damn good.

Hey guys! Remember me? This is what I've been up to... Before (April '09) /After (September '10) Finished top end rebuild, around 500 miles on the clock so far. Learning a lot about what I need to do this winter. Already installing a set of FIAMM horns to replace the POS OEM horn...

before: after: (bad photo....)

boy how you expect ta build a bike with no tools? kidding aside, an angle grinder can be you best friend. super versatile and quite handy when working with metal.

Wheels and brakes mounted. The oil is from my girlfriends car. Drive chain and new sprockets 17/32 (520). Essentially just waiting until I have time to wire up some new parts. I also have to clean out the gunked up gas in the tank, and have already rebuilt the petcocks.

theses an excellent thread on changing sprockets on xs650.com forum. xsjohn and inxs have been relentless on the information lately =].

"Look at how showered and clean they look, how 2000's."

lol yes I did buy 530 sprockets, my buddy had a spare set of 520's so I traded with him after nagging him lol. So this thread is all set, thanks! What gearing are you running now Tim? I'm going for 17f/32r.

I live on hipster training grounds. For some reason they all come to art school in Providence and (thankfully) disperse amongst the major cities, so you deal with it! har har har! Thank god they only ride PUCH's around here. Houses with a garage are rare in Providence.

its a beautiful bike mate. Those lesters look great on teh 550

Hey, I bought the chain for my XS650, but I got the wrong size (so I'm looking for trades on a 530 size chain at least 104 link), so I'm trying to sell this to get money for a much needed chain. Help me out!! New on MikesXS is $99+shipping, I'm looking for $90 shipped. Thanks, pictures on...

I've become almost a total lurker nowadays, I'm looking forward to your 550 project.