Orangetuesdays
XS400 Enthusiast
Haha, yeah! Doing alright.. Just restless and bored today. I planned on working on the XS this weekend but I can't do anything with it until I get an estimate for insurance etc.
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Mine...if I can get it to start!
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Ironhead
Too supple for prison.
DAMN! so sorry that happened but glad you're ok.
Orangetuesdays
XS400 Enthusiast
Thanks. Hopefully the estimate that I get for insurance will be enough to fix everything. So far the things that I've noted that need fixing are:
Forks and Triple Tree assembly
Front fender
Front tire
Front rim
Air filters (gas flowed into them when the bike tipped over)
Exhaust (full of dents/one is actually punctured and both mounting brackets are bent to hell)
Head pipes are bent/dented/scratched up
Handle bars
That's just my untrained visual inspection. We'll see what they come up with in the estimate. Hopefully it all works out.
Forks and Triple Tree assembly
Front fender
Front tire
Front rim
Air filters (gas flowed into them when the bike tipped over)
Exhaust (full of dents/one is actually punctured and both mounting brackets are bent to hell)
Head pipes are bent/dented/scratched up
Handle bars
That's just my untrained visual inspection. We'll see what they come up with in the estimate. Hopefully it all works out.
Orangetuesdays
XS400 Enthusiast
I finally got an insurance quote back so I can start tearing apart my XS. Here are some pictures so far. All in all, I think I just need to get some new fork tubes and that will suffice for now. I think I'm just going to stick with my plan though and tear the whole thing apart and turn it into a cafe racer of sorts.
Front end all disassembled!
Don't those forks look lovely?
Front end all disassembled!
Don't those forks look lovely?
Oh wow, hope you can get enough for the new ones, or slightly used
Orangetuesdays
XS400 Enthusiast
Well, I was going to see if I could get away with just buying new fork tubes since everything else is fine.. the problem is that the fork tubes are bent so bad that I can't get the damper rod out and I don't have any way of bending the tubes straight enough to pull the rod out.
