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The bike handles and rides more like a modern bike with the new frame geometry and the modern suspension wheels, tires and brakes. I have pushed it a little bit and it feels really stable. I have kept an eye on frame although I over engineered it. The CNC parts add a lot of strength to the...

If you look at my build page you can see I made 2 aluminum manifolds also used cam tensioners from a newer virago for clearance still a pretty tight fit. For my throttle cables I used the pull FCR cable from the throttle to the first carb and then used a cable from push side of the first carb to...

Good to see you back in action. Bike sounds great ! Finally finished my bike I used 2 FCR40's took me a while to get them right, still need some minor tweaking but good overall. Great Work ! Look forward to seeing more from you !

Very tastefully done !! Looks like a perfect restoration of a classic bike !

I totally understand trying to find time to work on the build. I think we both started our XV builds around the same time. Exhaust looks great ! Keep up the good work.

Wow this bike is amazing! Glad to see the updates. Was a real inspiration on my XV920R build. Makes me what to do more to my motor now.

Short video of the bike running.

Finally!! I have a completed and running bike. I still need to take care on some details like buffing the paint and really cleaning the bike up some more. The bike runs pretty well considering I took a wild guess at the jetting, need to spend a little time dialing it in. The exhaust note sounds...

OK finally getting the paint done finished the white base coat and the red next will be the black and some finishing touches. Also came up with a cool license plate mount off the rear shock reservoir. Should have it finished soon !

I used a couple of sprocket cut down to make my offset sprocket welded them together. I made an extension piece from a XS650 countershaft because it has the same spline as the XV, it slides into the XV countershaft and into the support bearing that fits in my cover.

The anodizing looks fine now after I cleaned up the parts. I took those picks just after my machinist cut the design, there was still quite a bite of residue on the parts from the CNC cutting oil.

I took the machined frame supports back to my machinist and had them anodized black. Then I had a design cut into the parts to give them more depth. I am finally on my way to getting this bike back together.

Really great build nice work. Almost did a single side on my XV920R but went a different route. Going to look cool. Keep up the great work.

In the home stretch, finally starting to go back together. I had the frame powder coated a cool candy red . I also finished painting the motor and got it back together. Mounted the motor back into the frame. Getting close to the finish just need to take care of some details and paint

I'll second that BMW R90/6 Cafe' Nice build !

Thanks everyone for the compliments and votes. Just wanted to give a shout out to Irk and sbaugz for keeping it close and building two really great bikes.

Thanks for the nomination! Looks like it's going to be a close one for sure.

Thank I appreciate it!

Thanks guys for all the compliments. Here are a couple more pics of the bike.

Great looking build! like the way this is turning out.