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  • i just got a xs 1100 special with 7000 miles

    hi
    i have been riding my midnight special 850 for the last 3 years now an love the bike very relible anyway i have been reading about the xs 1100's for the last 2 years and found this web sight
    this is one of the reason i bought the 1100 the other was the fact i seen one with 94,000 miles on it .
    that was all it took
    i just got this special from a kid ( 16 years old ) that found it in a barn and put it back on the road
    seem the person that bought it new banged up the kerker header and Alt cover a little then parked it with 4000 miles on it the kid i got this bike from
    got the bike cleaned up and running but was never in to it to much
    so i have it now what a bike fast nimble ,well at least nimble to me
    im going to get this bike back in to first class shap like my MN special (B&G)
    and am glad to be a new member i just down loaded 2 pages on charging systems and was able to get my bike charging thanks for the info
    this is going to be cool Winslow

  • #2
    hello from Belgium Winslow,
    wondering how a 16-yearold can keep an xs11 upright here, but good deal for you all together!

    cheers
    the limitation is not the bike,.. it is the driver.
    www.yamaha-generator.be

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    • #3
      Congrats on the new bike! Where are the pics?
      Dave
      1979 XS1100SF Special

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      • #4
        the other was the fact i seen one with 94,000 miles on it .
        Then you'll really like the ones with over 200k on them.



        Tod
        Try your hardest to be the kind of person your dog thinks you are.

        You can live to be 100, as long as you give up everything that would make you want to live to be 100!

        Current bikes:
        '06 Suzuki DR650
        *'82 XJ1100 with the 1179 kit. "Mad Maxim"
        '82 XJ1100 Completely stock fixer-upper
        '82 XJ1100 Bagger fixer-upper
        '82 XJ1100 Motor/frame and lots of boxes of parts
        '82 XJ1100 Parts bike
        '81 XS1100 Special
        '81 YZ250
        '80 XS850 Special
        '80 XR100
        *Crashed/Totalled, still own

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        • #5
          Good to see another 1100 back on the road! Welcome to the forum, and feel free to ask any questions you might encounter when working on it. Lots of knowledge here, and a lot of great people. Oh yeah, pictures are mandatory!
          1980 XS850SG - Sold
          1981 XS1100LH Midnight Special (Sold) - purchased 9/29/08
          Fully Vetterized and Dynojet Kit added, Heated Grips, Truck-Lite LED headlight, Accel Coils, Irridium plugs, TKAT Fork Brace, XS850LH Final Drive & Black SS Brake lines from Chacal.
          Here's my web page devoted to my bike! XS/XJ User's Manuals there, and the XJ1100 Service Manual and both XS1100 Service manuals (free download!).

          Whether you think you can, or you think you cannot - You're right.
          -H. Ford

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          • #6
            Congrats on your new old bike! Make sure to read all the tech-tips available by clicking the "XS1100 INFO" button at the top of the webpage. Lot's of great stuff in there!
            Mike C
            Lake Orion, Michigan
            '78 XS1100E

            Here I am! Where are you?

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            • #7
              congrats on the good find. i got mine about a month ago and am completely smitten with it. need pics though, i've come to find this is a very picture happy community and am very happy to be a part of it. you'll find any info you can handle through these guys.
              Whoever coined the phrase livin' the dream forgot to mention whether it was a good dream or bad dream.


              '79 XS1100F "Lucy"
              75,000 miles and still goin strong.

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