Peaty
XS400 Member
*new information and issue with this build further down*
Hi there, this is my first post. Iv been watching the forums for quite some time and have referred to for many stages of the build. I'm now a week away from being on the road with this build and wanted to share with you all.
So to start I'll explain a brief backstory.
The xs250 in question was sat at a friend's house uncovered in a bog for some time (last mot was back in 2002) it then moved 3 years ago to another friend who was going to "do something with it" which has been put in the wayside by a very long harley knucklehead build. Anyways after nearly being killed by a chinese bike back in January and being low on cash I decided to nab this off him to see what I could do on a budget. This started a long but fun build. Over the next few days I will update with pictures showing all of the work that has been done on it for under £500 and many hours at swap meets/scouring the web.
Due to the budget nature I decided to go for a bit of a rat effect, this developed into looking better than i expected to be honest.
I'll start with a photo of the state i got it in.
As you can see there is a lot of rust and sadly I lost the side shot showing how bad it was.
Hi there, this is my first post. Iv been watching the forums for quite some time and have referred to for many stages of the build. I'm now a week away from being on the road with this build and wanted to share with you all.
So to start I'll explain a brief backstory.
The xs250 in question was sat at a friend's house uncovered in a bog for some time (last mot was back in 2002) it then moved 3 years ago to another friend who was going to "do something with it" which has been put in the wayside by a very long harley knucklehead build. Anyways after nearly being killed by a chinese bike back in January and being low on cash I decided to nab this off him to see what I could do on a budget. This started a long but fun build. Over the next few days I will update with pictures showing all of the work that has been done on it for under £500 and many hours at swap meets/scouring the web.
Due to the budget nature I decided to go for a bit of a rat effect, this developed into looking better than i expected to be honest.
I'll start with a photo of the state i got it in.
As you can see there is a lot of rust and sadly I lost the side shot showing how bad it was.
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