New member...

[BzB]

Hi
I am French and I lived in Paris. I am 50 years old and possess 2 xs 1100. Child's old dream...
The first one xs is a standard model 2H9 and the second is a model "Sport" 5K7 1981. That this was bought last month. The painting, the brakes and the escape are to be revised. Last year, I ended one 650 XS " Scrambler " of 1975.
To finish my presentation, I am very happy to join you, to speak "XS 1100"
And sorry for my bad english

[Wildkat]

Bienvenue!

(that's about it for my French... so your English is MUCH better than my French ever will be)


Welcome to the board

Your bikes are gorgeous!

[randy]

Ok, i was hoping someone else would ask this, but here goes:

What is "escape" ?

Welcome.

[BzB]

Thanks !
BzB

[BzB]

Ok, i was hoping someone else would ask this, but here goes:

What is "escape" ?

Welcome.

Oups ! Exhaust is right word... Sorry

[prometheus578]

International members do not have to apologize for their "bad english."
(But a lot of native english speakers should)

[CatatonicBug]

International members do not have to apologize for their "bad english."
(But a lot of native english speakers should)

I second that!!

Hukt on foniks wurkt fer mee!!

[TopCatGr58]

Yes, Welcome BzB,

I hope your username is for BusyBee and not Beelzebub !

Wow, I don't recall ever seeing a Midnight STANDARD before?
I know it's the Euro Sport version, but it's still a cool looking machine.

And curious about the reverse mounted shift lever assembly. The action appears to be the same direction, down for downshifting and up for upshifting, so I'm assuming it was for mounting with the footpeg farther back/up from stock location??

And I knew what you were talking about, because the fumes have to ESCAPE from somewhere!
T.C.

The only French I know is the KISS, and the lyrics from the Beatles MICHELLE!

[Ken Talbot]

What is "escape" ?

My guess is exhaust...

Very nice looking bikes!

[Bigfoot]

Nice looking bikes. Welcome to the site.

[tarzan]

Very nice bikes.Welcome .

[foreda]

New member

Greetings BZB
Glad you could join us!. I am half French (Cajun American that is!!) and my wife is 100% Cajun and speaks fluent Cajun French. Not quite the same as you're language but close enough to get by!! Nice bikes!! Welcome!

[fredintoon]

Hi
I am French and I lived in Paris. I am 50 years old and possess 2 xs 1100. Child's old dream...
The first one xs is a standard model 2H9 and the second is a model "Sport" 5K7 1981. That this was bought last month. The painting, the brakes and the escape are to be revised. Last year, I ended one 650 XS " Scrambler " of 1975.
To finish my presentation, I am very happy to join you, to speak "XS 1100"
And sorry for my bad english

Hi BzB and welcome,
you say you "ended" an XS650 Scrambler? Ended as in "terminated"? or as in "destroyed"? Or perhaps you sold it?
Anyhow, the photo shows a dual exhaust system on the bike's left hand side side.
All the single sided exhaust systems I have ever seen have been on the bike's right hand side.
Where did you find a leftie? To have one of them on my XS650 would make a sidecar installation far easier.

[Cobia]

Welcome BzB, nice bikes.

Fred, I think he means "finished" when he used "terminated". As in finished restoring.
But folks, let's stop picking at his English lest we make him so self concious about it that we scare him away. It's cool to have such an international community of XSers where we all speak the same language......XS.

[kjohnson]

Welcome to our newly found French brother (or perhaps sister, it was never specifically mentioned). Do not apologize for your english, it is one of the hardest languages to learn and make sense of. We have many words that mean the same thing and some words mean many things and the words that sound the same, are spelled differently and mean different things. My french is very poor and mostly forgotten, but when I was learning it, it made more sense than english did.

And now for the babelfish translation:

Et maintenant pour la traduction de babelfish :

Bienvenue à notre frère français nouvellement trouvé (ou peut-être à soeur, on lui a spécifiquement mentionné jamais). Ne faites pas des excuses pour votre anglais, il est l'une des langues les plus dures pour apprendre et sembler raisonnable de. Nous avons beaucoup de mots qui signifient que la même chose et quelques mots signifient beaucoup de choses et les mots qui retentissent la même chose, sont orthographiés différemment et différentes choses moyennes. Mon Français est très des pauvres et la plupart du temps oublié, mais quand je l'apprenais, il a semblé plus de raisonnable que l'anglais a fait.