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Hi All,

Just joined the club. I have a Yamaha xs850sh 1980 which belonged to my late father. Over the last few years I have slowly rebuilt the bike.

I have had ups and down with the bike initialy I gave it to a motorbike mechanic who had the bike over a year and promised me it will be up and running with an MOT.

So I could Nova register for UK reg. I ended up going to the garage and loading the bike onto my van and took it home. With no MOT and still not running.

The bike now starts and UK reg with an MOT. I am now doing the clutch.

Looking forward to finding out more about the Yamaha xs850sh as I have no real experience on bikes.

Regards

John

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Looking good so far...
That's a hell of a chain in there!

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15 hours ago, Snakebite68 said:

Looking good so far...
That's a hell of a chain in there!

It did scare me when I took the outter casing off and saw the inside. I thought to myself, what I'm doing help.. LOL

Yeh " strange primary  drive,,  odd looking clutch basket too,, 🔧

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It's like the heaviest timing chain ever! lol

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On 5/9/2021 at 5:51 PM, blackhat250 said:

Yeh " strange primary  drive,,  odd looking clutch basket too,, 🔧

Would the USA version be diffrent to the European Yamaha XS 850. Lookin at the comments being made?

dUNNO John",, i would join the XS   forum,,  for more specific model  info,,,  🔧

http://www.xs650.com/

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