Museum find 1100 and 650

[donebysunday]

What do you guys think of these ?
Only 100 miles from me, I may bid

ebay # 201118886901 & 201118901482

[jetmechmarty]

Very nice X2!

[mfarrington]

Hot dang, those are sexy looking machines! My first bike was an XS650 ... Oh for disposable income ...

[donebysunday]

OK, let's get real picky,
that juicy RED 650 seems to have some paint missing around the petcock (most likely is or was leaking),
head needs torque (leaking oil on RT side),
scratch in the tank (left side just behind the Yamaha emblem), you can see it best in the shot from the rear,
missing the rubber covers for the clutch perch,
rusty foot pegs,
emgo mirrors,
paint off the emblem under the headlight,
maybe leaky RT rear shock,
scratch in the RT engine cover from the brake pedal,
dent in LT header ( as mentioned in description),
minor staining on muffs or maybe shoe rubber,
leaking FT MC (paint gone)
and broken plug wire on the right side.
NADA guide says $2385 VG, $4110 EXCL.
I'd say close to VG ?

The 11 looks real good but,
front end looks tweaked,
minor staining on muffs or maybe shoe rubber,
leaking FT MC (paint gone),
nicks in LT engine cover,
scratches in tank and small chips (best seen in the back view),
some paint off the emblem under the headlight,
bent headlight ear on the RT,
NADA guide says $2630 VG, $4315 EXCL.
I'd say it's somewhere in between ?

SEE ANYTHING ELSE ?

[MPittma100]

Museum Finds

The XS11 sold for $3,151.99.

The XS850 did not sell. $1,825.00 was bid, but reserve was not met.

Mike

[mfarrington]

$3,200 is a nice price....

[jetmechmarty]

XS650 Specials haven't hit their stride yet. For now, they're fodder for bobbers and choppers.

[cajun31]

had

a 78 xs650 before I bought my MNS. Used to ride with a guy that had a 2 stroke Kawasaki 750 and he would smoke the wheels off my 650. Thought it was going to vibrate to pieces sometimes trying to keep up with him. That all changed when I picked up the MNS. He went right out and and bought a KZ1100 to keep up.

[donebysunday]

a 78 xs650 before I bought my MNS. Used to ride with a guy that had a 2 stroke Kawasaki 750 and he would smoke the wheels off my 650. Thought it was going to vibrate to pieces sometimes trying to keep up with him. That all changed when I picked up the MNS. He went right out and and bought a KZ1100 to keep up.

I picked up my brand new 79SF and went to town to show a bud, here he comes riding what, a brand new KZ1000LTD. I could keep up with him but in the long run my SF topped out at 127 mph. on the clock and he pulled away. Told me he saw 135 mph. on his clock. My bike lost a little as it got older, I sold it with 56K on and the guy that bought it took it around the great lakes twice and one trip to Mexico. Bob sold his KZ at under 20K when it started blowing blue smoke. I win in the longest run

[IanDMacDonald]

Funny, I never figured the KZ1000 could out-perform the XS. Makes me wonder what the GPZ and a few others could do against the XS?

[Prisoner6]

Funny, I never figured the KZ1000 could out-perform the XS. Makes me wonder what the GPZ and a few others could do against the XS?

Hi, Ian -

The GPZ1100, GS1100, and CB1100F all out-performed the XS Eleven.

Of those first three, the Suzuki and Honda had the better low-to-midrange power, with the CB having particularly good low-end power.

But the GPZ had smokin' top-end power! I remember a couple of riders back then (one of them from Cycle magazine) dipping into the 10's in the

quarter-mile on the GPZ. All they did to achieve that was fiddle with the suspension settings and tire pressures a bit.

Amazing that Kawasaki could extract that much power from the by-then-aging 2-valve design and package it in a streetbike!

By contrast, both the CB and GS had more efficient 4-valve heads.