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That's just ugly, a lot of guys chop up bikes with just no sense of asthetics and end up with a hideous bike with no nice lines whatsover. There's a retard in my town with an 8 ft long fat tire bike and he complains about the ride and handling but loves his bike....

cut the cups off your frame, place the tank on the frame and then slide in the rubbers. Hold the rubbers while a buddy pulls the tank back off. Mark the rubbers and then drill hole through frame gusset. Throw some threaded rod and a nut on each end countersunk into the rubbers and your good. The...

Isn't it ironic that my severely neglected, original oil and plug from 5 years ago, no air cleaner, lawnmower always starts and runs like a champ....while our expensive toys are so finicky?

I've ultimately traced the problem back to the mechanical advance, I put the old springs back on and all the problems went away, but brought back my unwanted cruise control and ghost rev. The new springs are tight enough to drw the weights back in at idle but too tense to allow them to fan out...

Well, consistent with the inconsistent nature of this bike, I swapped the coils and wires and now the problem seems to have gone away.....that's what drives me nuts with these old bikes is they run fine, then break down, then run fine again fo seemingly no reason!!!

Coils along with the wires as a whole.....I replaced the wires and caps when I got the bike, but the coils are original. I am hoping to take it out tonight for a few miles to get the plug to foul, it sucks that it doesn't happen until a half hour into the ride....obviously I don't want to be far...

I've recently been having what I think are spark issues with my xs. It began fouling the left plug after a 30 mile or so ride. Carbs are dead on. I swapped the coils side to side to see if it follows the coil but haven't had time to ride it until the plug fouls yet, proving my theory of a dying...

Re: My XS650 project - update July 20 - Much nicer pics of the powdercoating up! Can't wait to see this thing completed, gonna be awesome. And honestly, how many times have you already stradled it and made a "vroom" noise!!! Just ribbin ya, that is an xs650 done right...

I've decided that once I get a new bike next spring I'm going to take a couple things off the xs and ghost ride it into a quarry pit near my house, I may light it on fire and do it at night..

I would've ridden mine but i couldn't find anyone to push it....I'm ready to knock it over and back my truck over it...

you can use a tank off ayamaha 750 too.....same as tintin said, you have to reverse the front mounts...

Is stuff in Canada dramatically more expensive or something? My buddy just got a '03 GSXR for $3200....

Re: My new ride.... Nice...I have ridden one of the 650's, really an awesome looking bike....check out this one that was built by a guy in my town....

good from far, yet, far from good

It was the advance unit, I had to tweak the springs a little more to really get the weights to snap back....took it out for ten miles today with the plate from my other bike on it and it was good, a little popping from the right carb but seems good.....I'm giving the bike to a buddy of mine, he...

You are not alone....I'm this close to backing my truck over my bike and buying something new....

they're 32s and basically the same as mikunis, it's just that a relative had them and I got them cheap from him or I wouldv'e just gone with the mikuni 32s...it's like a different bike once you get rid of the stock carbs

I just started digging into a 2nd xs 650 that I acquired a few months ago for the price of getting out of the PO's lawn. Bike runs well but here's the issue. Has the "ghost rev" thing going on. I went through this with my main xs and it was alleviated by servicing the advance unit and shaft. I...

There's a guy in my office building that converted an ex250 into electric...sounds like a frickin ufo but pretty cool...guys a little weird. I'm actually going to be selling my xs to get a ninja 250, what a coincidence!!!

true.......of course now I can't find any of the greases listed so I'm going to try with a high temp tolerable wheel bearing grease and see what happens...Thanks for the help...I'm beginning to wish I had a manually controlled advance/retard unit......I guess if it still busts my balls I'll have...