corruptmind
XS400 Addict
Names Damien, I'm 24 living in Jacksonville, NC USA. Recently married motorcycle nut. I picked up an '81 in 2008 for $700. Ran ok, starter silenoid was shot and needed little bit of love. Can't recall the mileage but believe it was in the 7000 range. Road it for a few weeks before a guy pulled out infront of me resulting in a lowside breaking the clutch lever, bending the shifter and handle bars. Handle bars were the horrible stock buck horns anyways and wanted to get rid of them anyways. I swwwwwwwwwapped out the bars with a set from a 93 suzuki lt80 miniquad. About a quarter inch shorter than perfect but loved the feel. Unfortunantly never got the chance to ride it with the new bars. Took the front wheel off to have the tire change and the guys popped the tube and didn't have the size in stock. So 2 weeks later they get it and finish the work but after a brother had messed around with my work site a spacer came up MIA and I had to order that aswell.
At this point I had decided id like to modify the bikes style to be a bobber and began tearing the bike down. I had a nicely organized pile of parts. Left town for a weekend to find the parts now in a disorganized pile behind the shed. The project was stuck on the back burner for a long while.
April of 2011, my fiancee (now wife) was ready for her own bike after I taught her to ride on my '94 CBR1000F. We found an '81 special for $400 and got it for $300.
it aswell needed a little bit of love. Cleaned the carbs, replaced the battery, front caliper was frozen so had to fix that. Also ditched the stock buckhorns for the same bars as my xs400. She loved the way it felt after the work.
We talked about a potential second larger bike in the future for her and asked what se might want to do with the xs. I showed her some pics of different styles and she decided she loved the cafe racer styling wasall her. After playing with some ideas I got feeling the same and decided 2 xs400 cafe racers would be sweet.
I love doing things like this. I recent got a 2001 Kawisaki Ninja 500r that I've turned into a dualsport. The end result will be a post apoctolyptic themed bioninja as we'll call it. I've raised the front end 7 inches with longer tubes and the rear 5" with a shorter dogbone. Still got a gasmask to mount to buell projectors for the headlight and 50mm ammo cans for the saddle bags.
Anyways back to the point.
Hers
Stock front forks
Dual side by side headlights
Stock tank possibly hammer dished
Stock seat with seat cowl/rear tail fairing combo with nonstock taillight w/ signal integration
14" eye to eye rear shock absorbers.
She originaly wanted a headlight windscree but after seeing the dual headlights changed her mind.
Mine
Inverted front forks with below upper triple tree clipons
Hydrolic front brake & spoke rims
Stock tank hammer dished and raised 1-2"
Lower single rider seat
Pegs & controls moved to passenger location and raised 1"
Rear tail fairing with nonstock taillight & integrated signals
16" rear shock absorbers
That about sums up the ideas, ill get some pics up soon.
At this point I had decided id like to modify the bikes style to be a bobber and began tearing the bike down. I had a nicely organized pile of parts. Left town for a weekend to find the parts now in a disorganized pile behind the shed. The project was stuck on the back burner for a long while.
April of 2011, my fiancee (now wife) was ready for her own bike after I taught her to ride on my '94 CBR1000F. We found an '81 special for $400 and got it for $300.
it aswell needed a little bit of love. Cleaned the carbs, replaced the battery, front caliper was frozen so had to fix that. Also ditched the stock buckhorns for the same bars as my xs400. She loved the way it felt after the work.We talked about a potential second larger bike in the future for her and asked what se might want to do with the xs. I showed her some pics of different styles and she decided she loved the cafe racer styling wasall her. After playing with some ideas I got feeling the same and decided 2 xs400 cafe racers would be sweet.
I love doing things like this. I recent got a 2001 Kawisaki Ninja 500r that I've turned into a dualsport. The end result will be a post apoctolyptic themed bioninja as we'll call it. I've raised the front end 7 inches with longer tubes and the rear 5" with a shorter dogbone. Still got a gasmask to mount to buell projectors for the headlight and 50mm ammo cans for the saddle bags.
Anyways back to the point.
Hers
Stock front forks
Dual side by side headlights
Stock tank possibly hammer dished
Stock seat with seat cowl/rear tail fairing combo with nonstock taillight w/ signal integration
14" eye to eye rear shock absorbers.
She originaly wanted a headlight windscree but after seeing the dual headlights changed her mind.
Mine
Inverted front forks with below upper triple tree clipons
Hydrolic front brake & spoke rims
Stock tank hammer dished and raised 1-2"
Lower single rider seat
Pegs & controls moved to passenger location and raised 1"
Rear tail fairing with nonstock taillight & integrated signals
16" rear shock absorbers
That about sums up the ideas, ill get some pics up soon.
