Some of the junk thats parked around here....

[aero]

Few piccies of some of my bikes/ projects....

Current and on going 1978 SR500 Street Tracker...Just ordered a load of goodies for this. I'm making up a load of bits in ally for it this month now my new lathe is just about up and running.
https://i26.tinypic.com/1111hld.jpg

And again
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This is the frame I built for a SR500 Bobber. Sadly I haven't had any time to progress this.

https://i26.tinypic.com/11m6gdx.jpg

My Daily ride...also in dry docks to sort out a list of repairs that have built up to the point they can no longer be ignored. I'm still waiting for a new air filter for it after a month of waiting from the tosser who sells them on eBay. He's going to get a right shitogram on his feed back for it.
https://i31.tinypic.com/qntf93.jpg

The XS and me

https://i32.tinypic.com/v77azs.jpg

engine pic
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Theres some more somehere, think I still have a Triumph somewhere and maybe another SR in bits lol
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[garth]

What's the SR like to ride?
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[TUG]

Do you like SR's?
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Haz ER-5, innit!

[aero]

Its a laugh a minute. As light (almost) as a 125, but with fcukoff great gobs of torque when you whip the throttle open.

Better then average 70's handling, in fact very tight compared to the XS. Let down by a piss poor front brake. Still a new EBC disc sorts that out.

In short its a light weight with a big punch. Great for heavy traffic as you can flick it around/over cars like they aren't there. Fitted with a loud pipe they get the message and leave you to it! Its slim enough to squeeze through tiny gaps. (even with the wider bars I've just fitted). I've just fitted a motad to the stainless steel rat, I had a shorty silencer on it that would wake over dosed junkies, but it was a bit too much after 20 motorway miles at 5 in the morning.

The street tracker will have a reverse cone mega - not even a hint of a baffle on an XT style pipe that exits on the other side to the XT (oh my worm )

So yeah I'm into the SRs. XS's also
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[.Chris.]

I would love an SR500. They seem to make pretty good money, unfortunately. Good to see yours is the wire wheel model - some of them I've seen come with cast wheels which don't quite suit the bike imo.

A local bike shop has an XS400 custom which I was tempted by, but I bought a CD250U instead. That had a Motad pipe on it which sounded fantastic. Lovely bikes
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1985 Kawasaki Z550F

[aero]

The early 2J2s had cast, but the later 2J4s could have either wire or cast. That 78 (2J2) I have is a cast wheel model with rear disc, I think I'll be holding on to that as that's fairly rare, a disc brake rear wheel on an SR500! Although I'm fitting it with wire wheels for it's next incarnation lol. Cast handle better, stiffer wheel, but the 70's one were too heavy so wire wheels were perfered to keep the weight down.
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[400bandit]

Sweet bikes them, I've got an old XS650 in a thousand pieces in the garage. I've got a sweet XR750 tank and seat unit for it too, just waiting for cash to start work on the engine (It's gonna swollow a lot of it!) It's gonna eventually have to works, rephased to 90 degrees, bored to 840cc electronic ignition and the classic XR750 style high pipes (+plus all the trimmings like peaky cams), shoot be sweet when done. Could take for ever though. It's only going to be a sunday ride and fully expect it to take a fair bit of work just to keep it in one piece

Joe

(P.s. keep us posted on the street tracker)
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Current Bikes 650 Honda Bros, VTR1000 Firestorm // Past Bikes: Sachs Madass 50/110cc - Bandit 400 - FZR750
(+ a XS650 in lots of pieces in my garage and other places...)

[aero]

Let me know if you get stuck for anything, hve a few bits and bobs for XS's round here. Or if you get bored with it, I often buy up projects. (although I can get the 750 conversions going quicker the the 840's )
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[Joeb46]

https://img207.imageshack.us/img207/8888/brucewillisbiographyue0.th.jpg

lol
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[MoshizZ]

https://uk.imdb.com/media/rm3224214784/nm0660244


You immediatly reminded me of him haha!

Loving the frame also!
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[aero]

400Bandit- I looked into the re-phasing option, its a lot of Hassle for zero gain, except an odd sounding XS650. I spoke to Palmers about it last year and he tried to flog me an old engine that he'd build in re-phased state. Reading between the lines there's been no interest and therefore he's not done very much development of the engine.

The 840 conversion is a better option, but you'll crap your self when you see how much metal is taken from the cylinders and the crank cases to fit the bigger liners. Still theres plenty of 840cc Xs out there to testify that this works ok.
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[400bandit]

I looked into it qiute a lot and there's a guy in Oz who does a lot with them and he reckons it makes the world of difference? Apparently the standard 360 phase gets quite vibby when they have been tuned a lot, I know it won't make more horsepower but the power will come in better, more like a V twin ducati. You can phase them to I think 87 degrees by just pressing the crank apart moving it around some splines and then pressing it back together (along with modding the cam and playing with the ignition) To get the perfect 90 you need two cranks, press them both apart and use the female halfs and from the guy in Oz i can get the pin to press them together. Or you can get an engineer/crank rebuilder to cut and weld the crank which supposed to work also. I know it seems like a lot of hassle but we plan to get a cam made/re profile original, so moving two lobes around isn't much more work and we want to add electronic iginition also.

If you haven't seem the guy in Oz's stuff already you should check it out, he's done a fair including belt driven cams! Check out the turbo XS project, it's pretty impressive to say the least

https://www.xs650.org.au/
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Current Bikes 650 Honda Bros, VTR1000 Firestorm // Past Bikes: Sachs Madass 50/110cc - Bandit 400 - FZR750
(+ a XS650 in lots of pieces in my garage and other places...)

[aero]

The crank is the easiest part to do, its all push together like a two stroke- hence it is so strong as a 4 stroke.

I think you mean a 277 rephase, which would leave it sounding quite like a Ducatti, but why? If you want to have a go on a Standard XS to see how vibey they are PM me. Trust me even the 840 is nothing like as nasty as a British twin, although the 840 is noticably harsher then a standard 650. The 750 you can't tell the difference, except for the increase in torque.

If you want a punchy bike for not much money fit high compression pistons and 2 mm bigger Mikunki VMs, 1 1/2" dia headers, 22 inches long and open silencers to a standard 650. And dump the points for electronic ignition too.

When people say the XS650 viberates, you have to remeber those reports where written in a time when all bikes were compared to new Japenses 4s (which buzz horribly). If you want to feel vibes try a 1970's Bonny at 90 MPH, you won't be able to hold the bars for long!

Your biggest problem with tuning the XS is the handling, this you need to sort out before its worth tuning the engine. If you don't I'm going to be riding rings round your tuned 840 on a bog standard 650 (with a few frame mods )
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[400bandit]

Oh for sure we need to sort out the chasis, we was going to do the radian swing arm conversion but they are a little more hard come by than in the US. So for now now we're just going to brace the original. In the way of forks we have some (I think) K1 GSXR forks but they may be a little short. I won't be done for a good while so we've got a while to piece it together.

Cheers for the info.

Joe
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Current Bikes 650 Honda Bros, VTR1000 Firestorm // Past Bikes: Sachs Madass 50/110cc - Bandit 400 - FZR750
(+ a XS650 in lots of pieces in my garage and other places...)