“THE BRASS MONKEY”
Visual Impact Airbrush & Graphics XS 650 chop Back in the beginning of the year my project started. I have restored cars and I do custom paint on cars and bikes but I never built a bike so this was definately a learning experience. The project started out gang busters like all good projects do. [...]
lets just say it was an interesting ride.
This bike was built by motorcycle warehouse in nj. there is some pics of the bike on the site but here are some updated ones. i never owned a rigid before and i love it, as well as the yamaha powerplant. the day i bought it, it down poured 5 minutes in to my hour [...]
Leadfist Cycles
Finding the lines and curves that the bike needs to flow in. The bike started as a ’76 bonestocked xs650… the bike was in real good shape and most collectors probably would have freaked out at the idea of chopping it.. I built the bike for a good friend of mine, not really having an [...]
No Leaf Clover
It was my old 650.“No Leaf Clover” This bike started out for me as a payment for doing a repo, for a gentleman who owned a pawn shop. (which is a pretty good story in itself.) I rode it ragged that summer. Took a trip to Yellowstone from Southern Utah. And did as many “mini” [...]
GRC Brass XS
GRAVE ROBBER CUSTOMS This bike was originally built for a customer Jason Bell, but he shortly became a good friend. He is very happy and so are we, cant wait to take it to the Smoke-out in a couple days. This bike is number 8 from our shop, it took roughly two months to build [...]
BAD MOTHER
Write about your XS650.: Vacationing in Daytona Beach, FL last week I turned to my wife and said “hey lets check out some bikes while we are here”. I have been promising her a Bike every since she gave birth to our daughter. She wanted a Metric bike, and she wanted something low enough to [...]
XS650 Bobber Oldskool Red n Black: Update
Larry AKA blackwidow Update How long did it take to build your bike? I had the bike 6 months and and after the 3rd month I hardtailed it then it sat for a month and about two months to finish the rest so probably a good 3 months of working on it solid… This is the first bike [...]
