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I have a 1980 XS650 for sale, unfortunatly have to pay the bills so time to sell the toys. can be seen at
http://www.xs650chopper.com/2009/11/not-bratstyle-bertstyle-for-sale/
contact me at my email ...

off and on sometimes it idles smoothe although i found one cylinder is far hotter than the other, almost as if that cylinder is dead. it has fuel getting in, good compression and when i test spark its ...

Looking for some ideas on what may be happening with my bike, got it built back together about a month or so ago, road it for about 40 miles noticing it is running a bit lean with the new intake veloc ...

carbs are clean, jets are 135 mains, 46 pilot, i will have to double check the needle valves. i got the rebuild kits from mikesxs last year so what ever parts he ships with but i will check. as for ...

i have no doubt in your needles i ran them all last year and the bike ran at its best. i do have a complete 1981 that is on a longterm chop project so i can swap igniters with that and try that out, ...

well at first i was getting flames out of the left cylinders exhaust just coming off idle, loud poppy flames. So i played with the pilot screw a bit and it seemed to go away. i ride the bike for 20 ...

for starters i have a 1980 xs650, motor is stock, carbs are set up with xsjohns needles, built a new exhaust and have to run velocity stacks to fit around the battery box/oil tank set up. has anyone ...

here is my bratstyle build i put together this past month or so. still tuning carbs otherwise almost done. the pipes i made out of cl350 scrambler headers and the mufflers are MAC pipes cut short alo ...

these forks are the most basic things to take apart and lower, all you have to do is add a spacer to your dampner rod causing it to sit higher in the male tube. although you might have to cut a little ...

i hear you there, well tuned carbs of any nature are nice, although my big concern is weather or not there is a substantial gain using accelorator pumps vs. round slide no pump? any one hear run the d ...

i am buying carbs and can't decide dellorto's from mikes or vm34's from thomasracing? vm's are half the cost but i realy like the idea of having accelorator pump dellorto's any sugestions? this will ...

where is everyone getting those cool looking velocity stacks with the screens for there bobbers and further more how do they run?

who sells the right spokes though? mikesxs sells the new wheel but not the longer spokes, where the hell do i get em?

i don't know why the pics are not showing up on the post? i will try again

here are some pics, i have boxes of misc. parts that will go with this bike, i truly beileve the only things missing are exhaust, lockset, gauges, and speedo drive unit, there could be other items i h ...

all black, has the tracker tailsection with a decent paint job, not professionaly done but did use ppg paint, its a roller and the motor is resealed on the top end, it was a project someone else start ...

hi dan,
I for one love mikesxs.com although i feel your pain when you get responses like this back from a company. Mikes is good for us because of the obvious reasons, hard to find parts at a c ...

I was currious if anyone on here has ever purchased a seat from www.bratstyle.com i have emailed them direct but where they are Japanese they probably can't translate what i am saying, any info would ...

First thing i would do is pull the plugs, did you have it on choke for a while? If so you could have fouled the plugs up. if that doesn't work i would go towards carbs, all it takes if for a tiny part ...

I also wanted to add that XSJohn replies to emails asap, and went back and forth with me a dozen times giving advice and inspiration to get my bike running mint. Product support is a major plus!!! So ...

Earlier this season i purchased a set of needles from XSJohn that he makes himself, I am posting to tell you these are no joke, 2 differant needles and my carbs are tuned perfectly. I had some bad run ...

yes i agree, grease the crap out of the tap and it will catch about 98% of the chips, i have never had a problem doing this, the key is the grease!

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if done properly i am telling you strait up the time sert is the best! Ask any replicable Jap dealership to compare the two for you 9 times out of 10 they use time serts

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