ANUBIXS400
XS400 Member
Hi there. I live on Van Island BC and I seem to be unable to resist driving past a dusty/rusty/dirty old beast of a bike like the one I picked up last summer. Its a 1978 xs400f (imagine that on this site) and it has the L20 serial number.
I have looked through some of the posts on this forum before and you guys have some awesome information! Also seems like a great community so I decided after looking at a few of the tech posts I would sign up and hopefully detail some of my project, which could possibly help others or just be fun to see me swear at some metal and get utterly confused!
Ive had a project before and just ended up restoring it with what I had available at the time which I felt pleased with but it might not be that impressive to others. It was messing around with those bikes that gave me the most knowledge and practical experience.
With the 78 xs400 I have now I would like to mod it into one of those tracker style bikes if I can. Im going to try and do this fairly methodically and hope to get it done without too many golden coins.
Picked up from a random yard sale down the road one sunday from a rather peculiar lady with a very confusing story about the bike which I'm not even going to get into.
I haven't started her because the carb is incomplete (without floats for some reason) and I need to get a trickle charger for a battery to try it. Also a bit of problem...There are no flipping keys! Im sure i could hotwire it but I need to sort that out....Anyway thats probably stuff for other posts.
Ill get some pics up soon. I will also try and get them the right way around!
I have looked through some of the posts on this forum before and you guys have some awesome information! Also seems like a great community so I decided after looking at a few of the tech posts I would sign up and hopefully detail some of my project, which could possibly help others or just be fun to see me swear at some metal and get utterly confused!
Ive had a project before and just ended up restoring it with what I had available at the time which I felt pleased with but it might not be that impressive to others. It was messing around with those bikes that gave me the most knowledge and practical experience.
With the 78 xs400 I have now I would like to mod it into one of those tracker style bikes if I can. Im going to try and do this fairly methodically and hope to get it done without too many golden coins.
Picked up from a random yard sale down the road one sunday from a rather peculiar lady with a very confusing story about the bike which I'm not even going to get into.
I haven't started her because the carb is incomplete (without floats for some reason) and I need to get a trickle charger for a battery to try it. Also a bit of problem...There are no flipping keys! Im sure i could hotwire it but I need to sort that out....Anyway thats probably stuff for other posts.
Ill get some pics up soon. I will also try and get them the right way around!