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

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.

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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.

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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

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

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

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

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.

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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

Yes, this is the same bike I posted months ago.  It is for my girl. It sits on an ardcore frame, and a bunch of harley after market parts. The wheels are harley wheels off a road king with dunlop 150s, front and rear. I’m working on the bars rite now… they have a internal throttle and twist clutch with flush directional buttons. And the risers are welded to the bars. I used a BMW airhead front master cylinder (under the tank) to help clean it up. The struts are hand made with countersunk allen head screws spun by yours truly. Read More

This is a 1979 Yamaha XS650. It is 90% complete. The guy I bought it from wanted to build this bike in the style of two of his favorite Japanese builders, Bratstyle & Gravel Crew.  This bike was stripped down to the bare frame. All unused tabs were cut off, blasted and then powdercoated gloss black. The tank is an old peanut tank stamped “made in England” on the tunnel. Custom made seat pan and a local guy stitched up the custom cover. The side covers were also custom made to hide the battery and electrical. The coils mount below the battery which sits in the stock postion below the seat. Read More

I started this build about 1 year ago, pulled the motor out of a ‘79 rebuilt it from the cases up. Bought my frame from Dave Huntress a.k.a Tigman (does great work) running a +4 41mm front-end, Gary Poh offset kit with a 200/50-18 Metzeler out back, 21” up front. Read More

PICKED THIS UP A FEW YEARS AGO ,SOMEONE STARTED THE CHOP AND I FINISHED IT… 200 TIRE .. DROP SEAT ,LOOP FRAME… DUAL FRONT DISK ,STILL HAVE TO MOCK UP A REAR BRAKE,BUT I’M FINE WITH JUST THE FRONT….MOTOR IS STOCK OTHER THAN CARB JETTING … DIDN’T START WITH THE INTENTIONS OF ALL THIS SHINY CHROME, BUT ENDED UP GOING THAT ROUTE….. Read More

Hey here we go again 5 more builds and no time but here are two on the bench ready for some parts and the welder. One bike is special because its for CARTER and he just got back to the states from fighting overseas to let me do what i do and you do. So Carter’s bike is going to be old school from the 50’s with a gas tank from Cycle X and of corse we are going to use the other guys we always use and its going to look like a old TRIUMPH BONNEY. Read More

I caught the bug for riding all things 2 wheeled as a kid and I finally got around to building one up.  Here is my first build, a 1980 650G.  It started as a complete, running, stock bike.  I quickly started removing unnecessary bits.  Soon the entire wiring was out and replaced with a minimalistic system including a mini battery, all hidden under the seat.   Read More

This bike started with a freee motor from ol’ heck, another xs650 owner. made the frame made to my specs from dave huntress, single loop with a 6 over stretch.  stock front end, shaved and powdercoated.  wheels are 23 up front ith stock hub and rear is an 18, both have powdercoated hubs and wheels with stainless spokes. Read More