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Hi i have just joined your site and i hope it will be quite useful. I have a 1979 xs650se my first 1 and i love this bike. Just looking for a few tips 1st clutch cable easy to do but will oil pee out of casing once removed. Can you please give me some tips ajusting/fitting so i can find neutral ok. I have had several bikes from Big Kawas Chops FJs and so on but nothing and i mean nothing can capture the beauty of this wonderful machine...And shes loud This would be much appreciated Oh and the best oil to use. Thanks G.

How Do All So i finally bagged an engine to go with my xs650 chasis :-) , anyone else here into their xs650's im looking to build a flat tracker special , so looking to shoot the breeze so to speak with fellow xs650 heads , hope you are all enjoying the weather . weegiboy :-)

Hi Guys , new to the board but from what I've seen so far I'm sure it will come in very handy over the next few months. Anyway, wondering if you guys might be able to help me, well the xs650 guys anyway. Can anyone tell me if the xs650 special/ custom shared the same frame/chassis with the roadster type bikes or indeed can anyone tell me what differences there were between the custom models and the roadster type bikes ? for example was it the same chassis just longer forks and bigger wheels. Please excuse my ignorance but I hope you might be able to help. many thanks gerard

Trying to find out how many XS650 twins (1970-83) were manufactured. I've heard the number is approximately 500,000 but haven't been able to confirm that figure through a reliable source. Has anybody seen any production figures from a reliable source? Or, better yet, does anybody know how to get them from Yamaha?

has anyone else put this motor on a quad frame? You cant belive the power of this engine and it still flies in more ways than one

Hi, Just finally picked up a T reg xs650 special. I need tank badges. They are the ones with level, in line screws. They haven't got to be immac, can anyone help me? Wook

Got the chance of a '79 xs650se, been stood for a few years. Battery knackered, lovely motor, a bit tarnished. How much should I pay? It's been resprayed, fairly original apart from that. Big spoke, mag wheels. Seat ripped. Could anyone advise me? Wook

Does anyone know if xs750 special fork tubes are the same diameter as xs750 standard. I just want to change the fork tubes assembly not the triple tree.

If you have a 1974 to 1978 xs750 yamaha ry my new board. http://www.free-forum.com/bulletinboard/vi...1&mforum=yamaha

Hi all I have just got a xs 750 frame and swing arm and am looking to see if anyone has a pdf workshop manual file, and if anyone has any unwanted parts they want to offload, please mail me thanks steve

Help needed here. I am going for a "spirit of the seventies" type cafe racer mod to my xs 750. I have a twin disc front wheel off (I think) an xs400 with a 15mm spindle. The original xs750 spindle is 17mm. I am struggling to find bearings that will fit the 18" wheel (42mm OD) with the 17mm ID that i need for the original spindle. has anyone done this mod beofre and can throw a bit of light on this thanks

My neighbor has an XS750, the tacho stopped working two days ago and he asked me to have a look, when I got there this morning I took the cable off and found out it was totally seized (Like not from rust, from fraying and tangling itself up it seems), put on the cable he bought as a replacement and it still didn't work, on closer inspection we found the drive gear wasn't turning. I took the valve cover off and to our horror we found out that the drive gear has totally eaten itself, the bevel drive on the camshaft is basically gone. Now the real problem. All the shavings seems to have been swept into the depths of the engine. Do you think it's game over? I'm guessing…

I'm nearly finished rebuilding my XS850 set in a 750 frame. I didn't touch the clutch outside of removing the cable, as it worked perfectly with full travel and play when I bought the bike and I had made no change to the mechanical pin adjustment. Problem is, cable routed and re-attached, I can't get the clutch to disengage. I did pull the motor, left it wet and upright during the frame off resto (3 months), and did have it lying on it's left side on a garage rug for roughly an hour as I slipped the frame back over and mounted it back up. The cable has full travel. I have played with both the motor and lever linkage adjustments as well as the mechanical adjustment (b…

Hey Guys this is my 1st post. I'm restoring a XS850 Midnight Special. I was reading through some posts and see that people seem to think that the XS models can be problematic, can anyone tell me what goes wrong? I got my bike last week after it had be dry stored for 12months without being run, started on 1st kick!!! Was well chuffed! I've given it a clean and shes runs nice and smooth and am now looking for bits to restore her to her former glory. I'm on the look for a new fuel tank if you know of any going? Any hints/tips would be appriciated. Is this model at all rare? Cheers Mike

Hi, Can anyone give me any idea why when I start the bike up after two minutes the generator outer cover starts to get very hot. I have exposed the generator assembly and as you can see from the pictures there are marks as if it was grinding with something. Or maybe it's as simple as the torque not being tight enought allowing movement when spinning? Hope this makes sense. Picture of the bike nearly completed...

Retro is coming back!

https://www.facebook.com/yamahapolandposition/ Hi, It's Greg here, I work as a Yamaha sales specialist at POLand POSITION (#1 Yamaha dealer in Poland, East-Central Europe). Currently riding an XSR900 and just lovin' it! Together with my friend mechanic we have built a special bike, based on the XSR700. So here's the official story: "POLand POSITION's Pawel Rybak and Greg Dabrowski, the men behind this Yard Built project, have asked themselves a tricky questions... As a result we pay a sincere tribute to a first ever Yamaha motorcycle: YA-1, called "Akatombo" (Red Dragonfly in Japanese), first released in 1955. Built in only 26 eveni…

I've read all i can about these exhausts, but just want to know if someone has done it themselves and what they noticed afterwards. How much more top speed would i gain? Do i need to re-jet? Better acceleration? Let me know plz Thanks

Hi lads new here and also new to biking really. Brought my first bike yesterday xt125. So my problem is the bike idles fine when I start it but when its warmed up it will increase the revs by itself. Just wondering if you guys have any ideas what it could be. Sorry if this is in the wrong section Lee

Hello, i have bought my firsth bike. It is a yamaha xt 125 r I need tunig parts for engine. Can yau write down some webs???? I live in Latvia, here are no tuning shops where i can find parts for my engine.