No Thanks XS!!!
Riding a 04 HD Deuce to building my own XS650
My buddy Mark got me involved in XS650’s about 3 years ago when I saw the bike he built sitting in his kitchen on the way downstairs to get a brew, I wanted to know everything about it and how he built it, well after that night and a hangover later I went from riding a 04 HD Deuce to building my own XS650. Read More
XS650 Cafe – ‘The Beast MK2′ from the Limey
XS650 Cafe “The Hornet”
Well, I thought I would share my ongoing cafe project with the chopper world. I believe that form should follow function, so I started this little thing after my last build (the flat tracker beast… which can be seen on my finished projects page at www.limeybikes.com.. which was so much fun to ride that I nearly wet myself every time it started up. Soooo… this is basically an XS650 Special… or most of the frame is and the lower half of the engine.
It has Excel 18 inch rims, stainless spokes, fork damper valves, progressive springs, alloy swingarm, Brembo brakes (except for the front caliper… incidentally, the rear brake is a work of art from Banke Racing), 750 kit, Shell No.1 race cam, titanium valve tops, serious gas flowing, stainless valves, race clutch, Mikuni RS36 smoothbores (what a bitch to link up… it’s so tight that I can’t use intake gaskets), a gorgeous megaphone from Apollo Cones welded to 1.75 inch stainless pipes (thanks Matt), Yoshi rearsets, all electrics are under the seat (and it even has blinkers built into the headlight), Scitsu race tach…. blah blah blah… the list goes on and on. Read More
Deathtrap Garage
Narrow, nimble, and fast.
1978 xs650, started out as complete bike which in the end i only used the motor and rear wheel. I built the pipes, bars, motormounts, electrical box, fender, shaved the fork lowers and alot of other odds and ends.. Ricky Reyes from the Anchor motorcycle shop built the footpegs and sissy bar. Frame was found off ebay, seller had no idea who built it, however it is a full rigid frame. Read More
NEW BUILD TURBO ORANGE
DADDYGCYCLES out of NEW YORK
1979 XS650 with TCB hardtail, battery box/oil tankfoward controls. WiseGUY manifolds, ARDCORE SEAT, and of corse you got to add MIKES XS. All of these guys are great and parts are perfect. I did something different on this build and polished up the battery box and oil tank and came up nice. Bike was built low and to go. Read More
XS650 boardtracker
Metal Head Fabrication XS650 boardtracker
This here’s my wannabe boardtrack style xs650. I got the motor for the bike in in Feb 09 and have worked on it off and on till now. The donor was a good running 82 that had 13,000 original miles. The frames been hacked up real good. The only stock part of it left is the lower motor mounts and the neck. It should have been made from the ground up, but I was to lazy at the time. The forks are ones I made for another bike that ended up sitting around for a while. Me and a couple friends have tinkered with it in bits and pieces to get it where it is. Nothin to serious.
Hans from Holland PART # 13
LynXS Café-fighter
Amazing all the frequent updates here with all kind of XS 650 twins. Great to see so much variation on the XS theme. Trackers, chops, bobbers, café-racers, I really dig em all, you know the XS virus hit me hard for almost 25 years now. In 1988 already I rode a Santee framed XS chopper with high sissybar, apehanger and a long overstock springer front end. Several XS project followed, not only chops and bobs (see my Back 2 BasiXS), but also some speedy racers. The latest racer is the LynXS which I like to show you in this column-edition.
The Snot Rocket
The Snot Rocket
Bought the bike in April 09…summer project through August…my buddy
Eric at Choppinsteel.com did the fabwork….hardtail, z bar dragbars,
electric work etc….guy is killer….great job…he wins all kinds of
awards for his bikes…my buddy Bill at Baird Customs shot the green for
me…then I went back in at striped the tank and fender and added the
old racing number 74 on the electrical box….the motor is all orginal
as far as I know…guy I bought it from said it had about 10,000 on
it…runs like a beast….bike was in the great condition when I bought
it…best I had seen…. Read More
“2nd Chance” by Cannonball Custom Cycles
This bike was in pretty bad shape when I bought it. The guy I bought it from was trying to build it and gave up. Good thing he did because it was looking pretty sketchy. I fixed the frame up and started re building everything. I added a 21 front wheel and a 18 rear, wrapped them with some new tires. Used the front stock fender for the rear, built up some mid controls and new handlebars, shaved the mounts off the fork. Read More
Norma Jean
The goal was retro style war-time bomber/bobber
I purchased this bike as a partially completed hardtail project about two years ago. The motor was in poor shape. It barely ran, smoked really bad and overall was in really rough shape. The hardtail had been welded in place and the seat and tank were new items that came with the bike. The goal was retro style war-time bomber/bobber that resembled a vintage Harley or Triumph. Read More
easy end garage xs
From the Easy End Garage in Richmond Virginia this 76 xs is an on going process featuring a tc bros hardtail and controls, sportster tank and a modified set of apes.
I Lied…
Well, I lied! I originally said that I was going to hard-tail this bike that I recently picked up, but now I am not. I have officially become obsessed with the bratstyle movement. I spend hours (at work haha) looking at www.bratstyle.com. I really want to hardtail a bike with spoked wheels and being that this one has the mags and the rear disc set up, I figured I would go with a style similar to Joel Mekolite’s bratty and Kevin’s Leadfist Baloney Sandwich. Read More
Metric Iron
Hi im luke cook and im 17 years old and this is my xs650. This project started when my brother picked this 650 up for 200$ In the begining they hadnt really known much about the bike so they looked up an xs650 on the web and of course the first thing that poped up was a shit ton of bobber and chopper photos. They bought the bike and lost intrest after they aquired their sport bikes. I asked about it and in short time it became mine. Read More
The rush is on!
While back I put up some pics of my 77 xs650. Since it is finally getting warm up here I got to do some work on it over the weekend. I sanded down my gas tank to start getting it ready for paint(hugger orange). I am using a 68 shovel gas tank. I made my seat. Read More
paint is on my first try
Sent in some pics awhile ago of my first build, 77 650 chopped with a TC Bro hardtail, just put some paint on it old school style, a few rattle cans and some masking tape! slow process, but she’s coming along. next up is motor rebuild. Hope to have it on the road by Biketoberfest, I live near Daytona. Keeping my fingers crossed!! Read More
PERSISTANCE
This bike started out as a dream, with me looking across the road at my dads neighbors drive way, and watching this once beautiful bike dwindle away…… So after many years of begging, I wound up convincing this Ol’man into selling me this 75 xs650b, with only 1,780miles on it. Read More
Another one from holland!!
Hello, folks!, here’s my everyday in use rig…use my gall for goin’to work every day summer and winter…so it has to be comfortable i guess.
Fat Yama Part II
Just a couple shots to show you the progress that’s been made over the Minnesota winter. It’s warming up here and the bobber is about ready to go on it’s first ride, only to be taken apart and painted. Read More
