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Hey Guys - just wanted to say hello...been lurking on here for awhile now and have picked up some great info - thanks! I've been working on an 82 xs400 special cafe project for a little bit, and am now waiting on some parts to show up after a little incident with my wife and our truck...on the upside, the muffler modifications i was considering became somewhat mandatory, so there's that...
I'm by no means anywhere close to a mechanic, but after the local bike shop said they wouldn't work on the my bike because it was to old, I broke out the manual, ordered up some gaskets / assorted parts and dove in. It's been a hell of a lot of fun.
While waiting for parts I got bored and started lookin around for the next project, which I found and picked up last night - 79 xs400 in some stage of bobber. Its missing a ton of stuff so if anyone's got parts they're looking to sell/get rid of hit me up. I'm draggin my 15 year old into the process on this one as a bit of a father son project and am sure we'll both learn alot as we go. Attached a couple pics of the works in progress.
'82 cafe in progress
'79 bobber
I'm by no means anywhere close to a mechanic, but after the local bike shop said they wouldn't work on the my bike because it was to old, I broke out the manual, ordered up some gaskets / assorted parts and dove in. It's been a hell of a lot of fun.
While waiting for parts I got bored and started lookin around for the next project, which I found and picked up last night - 79 xs400 in some stage of bobber. Its missing a ton of stuff so if anyone's got parts they're looking to sell/get rid of hit me up. I'm draggin my 15 year old into the process on this one as a bit of a father son project and am sure we'll both learn alot as we go. Attached a couple pics of the works in progress.
'82 cafe in progress
'79 bobber
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