Hey everybody!
My name is Karl, I am now 22 years old and I'm from Estonia. Yep another one from Estonia (I reckon some of you know Sandrew, who is also from Estonia, haven't met him in person though).
I apologise in advance for some grammar mistakes that I will be making in the future probably, cause english is not my mother language.
So I've been on here a while now and thought I should put a build thread up for my XS400.
It's a 1981 XS400 SE model that I bought from an old guy from Saaremaa (largest island in the Republic of Estonia).
He stopped riding it many years ago and it had been tucked away since. It didn't start when we tried, but it looked good and complete, so I bought it.
It is my first "real" motorcycle and a first build thread as well.
I had two scooters when I was younger, the first one (Honda Dio, fun little thing) I got from my brother (when my parents bought him a 125ccm Honda Rebel) and the second one MBK Nitro (or Yamaha Aerox) I got basically from selling the first one, but it was in a pretty rough condition so I had to fix it. Actually, I had to fix it twice cause I managed to crash it into a police car, ahh good days right. I learned how to ride a motorcycle with manual gearbox, when riding my brothers Honda. Only rode it few times around my home place though, cause I didn't (still don't) have the license to ride.
Plans with the XS400: I'm going to get it running and then make it look good (not that it doesn't look good in it's original shape, but it's just not my taste). I am going to go with some kind of scrambler-bratstyle mixup, when you see it you will understand.
Here is a picture from the day I bought it:
Heard you guys were friendly, so I hope you'll go easy on my mistakes.
My name is Karl, I am now 22 years old and I'm from Estonia. Yep another one from Estonia (I reckon some of you know Sandrew, who is also from Estonia, haven't met him in person though).
I apologise in advance for some grammar mistakes that I will be making in the future probably, cause english is not my mother language.
So I've been on here a while now and thought I should put a build thread up for my XS400.
It's a 1981 XS400 SE model that I bought from an old guy from Saaremaa (largest island in the Republic of Estonia).
He stopped riding it many years ago and it had been tucked away since. It didn't start when we tried, but it looked good and complete, so I bought it.
It is my first "real" motorcycle and a first build thread as well.
I had two scooters when I was younger, the first one (Honda Dio, fun little thing) I got from my brother (when my parents bought him a 125ccm Honda Rebel) and the second one MBK Nitro (or Yamaha Aerox) I got basically from selling the first one, but it was in a pretty rough condition so I had to fix it. Actually, I had to fix it twice cause I managed to crash it into a police car, ahh good days right. I learned how to ride a motorcycle with manual gearbox, when riding my brothers Honda. Only rode it few times around my home place though, cause I didn't (still don't) have the license to ride.
Plans with the XS400: I'm going to get it running and then make it look good (not that it doesn't look good in it's original shape, but it's just not my taste). I am going to go with some kind of scrambler-bratstyle mixup, when you see it you will understand.
Here is a picture from the day I bought it:
Heard you guys were friendly, so I hope you'll go easy on my mistakes.
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