The Excess 650
Here is a bike that has just been finished up & is ready for the summer riding season. I started with a 1978 Yamaha 650 that had a measley 5000 miles on the odometer. The engine has a solid 155 on each cylinder, and runs great. The original points system has been replaced with an [...]
La Cucaracha
I scored this off the hawkins clan in kentucky, a father/son team who usually specialize in custom autos but had tried their hand on a first cycle. while visually pleasing the bike had some handling & performance issues they had overlooked in their customizing, not being bikers themselves. The rigid struts the guy had put [...]
black country metric chopper
Hi ya this is my xs softail project, its got a shock absorber off a yam RD 350 LC,need suspension cause as you can see from the pics im getting old now ha ha, I have got to make an electric/battery box,which i will make out of stainless.
Tenacious XS Updated
Still picking away at her. had a few rain days from work so i shortened/welded the seat loop area about 6″ and made new shock mounts because the stock ones were stripped. I also took a body hammer to the tank. i like the way it turned out.
Baker xs chop
Here are a few pics of my xs1 chop project Ive been working on. Hardtail is from Tcbros and was installed by my good friend Easy at EZ way fabrication. everything was built with yamaha and some aftermarket parts. this is my first bike and plan to build it to ride!
a few little things done… el diablo
Ok guys so tires are on…working fender out…small little touches but working on motor…just a update
john’s chopper xs 650
Write about your XS650.: Just got my new chopper yam xs 650 niceeeeeeees
B-RATSTYLE
First bought a 78 xs650. did some brainstorming, looked at examples and decided what i wanted. of course it came to life on its own as the build went along. broke it down, 8 hours of chopping and grinding. had to bend steel tubing for the dropped seat bars. hid the battery box under the [...]
