Wisconsin Cafe ’81 Special XS650
My ’81 Special started pretty stock – I wanted something understated but cool. Got a ’74 rear light from my buddy Rob of RocBottom Choppers (Oconomowoc, WI) and a set of chopper pipes blacked-out and …voila!!
xs collection
Started my humble collection of xs650s last year and now have five. We work on them in the back corner of our business which is completely unrelated to motorcycles. We’ve manage to restore seven bikes while running our store in the past couple of years.
XS 650 Cafe Racer
I have about 3 years of spare time tinkering to get this bike together. Big, late model brakes with true old school glass helped me get this as close as I could rememeber to a bike I saw when I was younger. Hope you enjoy the pics.
1971 Yamaha XS XS650
Extremely rare 1971 Yamaha XS650. On Ebay, “1971 was the first generation of this iconic bike, and it quickly became known in it’s day as “The Triumph without the trouble”. It was made painstakingly similar to the bonneville in aesthetics and overall design, but much more reliable, the lack of which is what ultimately led [...]
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 [...]
