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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
“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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Sorry For Partyin
Covered in dust for 10 years
This bike has been in my family for over 20 years. My old man got it stock and rode it in the mid nineties then stuck it in a shed when it needed a ring job because he had another bike. When i was 17 we pulled it out after [...]
Francisco Santiago Frist Build
Form the island of Puerto Rico
This is my first full build. I’m form the island of Puerto Rico and my passion it has been always the motorcycles but as many people I’m a working man with a little budget. This bike started as a 1979 xs650 that i got for $700 running but not charging. [...]
