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Starting a build
Posted: Mon Mar 23, 2015 8:18 pm
by Bust
If my shit stays together I will be starting a build I've been wanting to do since the early 80's
This
with any luck, will become this
I figure I have a few months being tied to the house and picked up the old bike running but rough for a c note. Might as well do something.
Wish me luck
Re: Starting a build
Posted: Mon Mar 23, 2015 10:33 pm
by blrfjr
looks like a fun project! Have fun!
Good to see you still have a desire for such things
Re: Starting a build
Posted: Mon Mar 23, 2015 10:38 pm
by fencer
Is that a 400?
Re: Starting a build
Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2015 2:10 am
by bluesdog
Great project! Please take lots of photos as it progresses.
Re: Starting a build
Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2015 10:48 am
by beemerdons
bluesdog wrote:Great project! Please take lots of photos as it progresses.
+1, Gunny; very glad to see your project NumbNuts, best of luck on it Barry! JSNS!
Re: Starting a build
Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2015 12:33 pm
by El Toro Joe
Looking forward to seeing the finished product
Starting a build
Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2015 6:10 pm
by wpbfjr
awesome great project. lots of pics, please!
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Re: Starting a build
Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2015 8:21 pm
by spklbuk
Promise yourself not to let Don ride it!! Have fun Bust.
Posted: Wed Mar 25, 2015 12:02 am
by HotRodZilla
That could turn out cool. Take lots of pictures and hurry up about it. When you paint it yellow, use the yellow from the 'Vette. THAT is a great color!!
Re: Starting a build
Posted: Wed Mar 25, 2015 11:29 am
by Geezer
fencer wrote:Is that a 400?
My guess is a TX500. Assuming it's a twin.
Re: Starting a build
Posted: Wed Mar 25, 2015 7:52 pm
by Bust
No it's an xs 400 1980.
Re: Starting a build
Posted: Wed Mar 25, 2015 8:51 pm
by Geezer
Bust wrote:No it's an xs 400 1980.
Very nice. I knew about the 400 2-cycle but do not remember the XS. Looks like fun.
Re: Starting a build
Posted: Thu Mar 26, 2015 8:29 am
by ShinyPartsUp
Great project. Don't f@$k it up. No tassels on the grips, OK?
Posted: Thu Mar 26, 2015 10:19 am
by silverback
Buddy uses an XS400 in flat track. It'd be better on the street! Lol! They are rather ubiquitous and lots of parts though. Bullet proof too.
Re: Starting a build
Posted: Thu Mar 26, 2015 5:15 pm
by FeeJeR Fred
El Toro Joe wrote:Looking forward to seeing the finished product
Looking forward to seeing the process even more. Good luck with the build, Barry. I wish I had the patience for that kind of thing. I'm always in too much of a rush to git 'er dun.
Re:
Posted: Fri Mar 27, 2015 3:37 pm
by Bust
silverback wrote:Buddy uses an XS400 in flat track. It'd be better on the street! Lol! They are rather ubiquitous and lots of parts though. Bullet proof too.
That's the hard part here, everybody is still doing that.. A local guy still builds 'em for just that.
He told me that mine would be in his garage before it was a cafe racer replica..I told him he'd be eating a ball samitch before that happens..
I hope he likes ballz.
Re: Starting a build
Posted: Fri Mar 27, 2015 4:52 pm
by ionbeam
I used to have an earlier member of the family. This is the very rare (but not so valuable) '77 XS400, built for only 6 months, sandwiched in between the old and newer models. Dunno why Yamaha bothered.
Hopefully you retain the old school skill of gapping points. The kick starter isn't heart healthy though. Get everything right and it will start on the first kick. get it wrong and I would kick the little bustard for a half hour. What this bike really had going for it was being on a car dealer's lot and he had it priced $tupidly low.
Re: Starting a build
Posted: Wed May 06, 2015 8:51 pm
by Bust
Build went into the shitter today.. Storage shed at buddy's burnt to the ground with the XS in it. Fuk
Re: Starting a build
Posted: Wed May 06, 2015 11:26 pm
by bluesdog
Aw, man that sucks
Posted: Thu May 07, 2015 1:42 am
by HotRodZilla
Seriously?? WTF? Dayum dude...Sorry!!