Yamaha XS650 - Ride out with a better set of points
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- čas přidán 17. 09. 2021
- Welcome to the Old Biker Channel, I live in the UK and work mainly on the Yamaha XS650 and have done so a few years, if you need an engine rebuilding or any other work on your XS you can contact me from www.croftmotorcycles.com using the contact page. Also note that engine builds take time and can be quite expensive, depending on what you are having done, other than that give me a shout if your in need of some work on your bike (any bike), cheers Cliff.
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The audio is good enough to allow us to enjoy the sound of a lusty 360' twin-pot-marvellous!
Gorgeous scenery with a great bike!
Thirty years ago, I ran across a deal for seven XS 650's for about three hundred bucks, and bought them as baskets, got one up really fine, sold the rest running, and had mine for almost nothing. I rode it about three years and built a couple others, Harleys, and was foolish enough to let the Yammie go. I really miss it, had points on one end of the camshaft and electronic ignition the other, stock setup, always had a back up. I've got an old triumph Bonnie, I've been riding a couple months, still enjoying your English countryside. Thanks for a vicarious ride for me in North Carolina. Keep the spare for yourself, you'll be glad you did! I might be wrong, I think I took a points/cam bearing plate on both ends of the camshaft and it'd been original capable of either end being used. I'd got it running pulling a stuck rusted cylinder top end off and a good set on, not even buying gaskets, it was probably the most reliable bike I'd ever had and it gave me seven or eight hundred mile week end commutes for three years running.
Jeff, I want to thank you for helping me to remember why my life has been so buggered up for the last several years. It seems like it all started when the Doc said "no more riding for you or I'll fit you for a wheelchair"! My last bikes were a Triumph Thruxton and a Honda CB-750 cafe. Came across a 79 XS-650 a couple of days ago, now if I can just come across the $1800. to pick it up.
Something else I've realized from riding along is that we're going thru the same sh!t as the Mod's v Rockers! We're using different names but, the attitudes are the same.
Rock on Mate! us.
That motorcycle was such a great motorcycle. It was in production for like 16 years. That was a humongous record for a Japanese bike which would be replaced every 3 or 4 years with something different. If those bikes we're still in production Triumph would be out of business. I remember when they were selling them for $2,000 brand new when they had all of the leftover 80s models.
Nice bike. They are getting hard to find. I would have bought one but couldn't find a nice one so I bought a Yamaha 950 Bolt in the spring.
I enjoyed the ride! Love the sound! I'm thinking about buying one, 1978.
I bought one 1978 XS 650 Special. I need the tank emblems and side cover emblems.
Good stuff, you can find everything you want from here :- www.heidentuning.com/xs650-shop/accessories/badges.html
nice engine note that definitely sounds so much better . The exhaust is perfect
Good to see you riding out in that gorgeous countryside for a change. I hate those endless carriageways they would depress me . That freeloading leaf had been on there for miles lol
Nice of you to let that young attractive woman out....you'd have done the same for a bloke of course right !?
is that your 79er Cliff ? my 79 special was made manufactured in 78 and it has a completely different looking speedo and rev counter to yours ? are you sure that is the correct gauges for your bike ?
Alright John, that's the Bitsa bike, it has parts from all over the place, the clocks are from a 1976 bike, I think the green clocks look better than the black ones, I had the rev counter given to me by a mate and got the speedo online, the speedo did in fact work OK for a short while but now gives a slower reading than you're actually doing, oh well something else on the shopping list lol
@@OldBiker yeah that was a dumb suggestion of mine. I was up all night and not thinking clearly. Of course the speedo gauges will all have same internal gear ratios because the oil pump drive ratio didn't change throughout the various models...doah! I've never taken a gauge apart to clean and service but I guess its doable...aghhh what am I saying ?! I am constantly making unnecessary extra work for myself to save a few pennies
That is an XS650 single overhead cam not a double overhead cam. The XJ 650 was a double overhead cam with a shaft drive not chain.