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    Interesting yet irrelevant tidbit

    In researching the origins of all these side covers I'm selling (AND I'M NOT PLUGGING MYSELF!!), I ran accross a left one in a bright blue color that said DOHC 500 Eight Valve. It had no part number or any other idication of its origin. After googling the hell out of it....
    Long story short, its a Yamaha and they used it on the '73 TX500, '74 TX500A, and the (drumroll, plz) '75 XS500B. Not used on the '74 XS500 or any other year after that.
    I said it was an irrelevant tidbit, didn't I??

    If you want to see it, here it is:

    http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...%3AMESELX%3AIT
    1980G Standard, Restored
    Kerker 4 - 1
    850 Rear End Mod
    2-21 Flashing LED Arrays on either side of license plate for Brake Light Assist, 1100 Lumen Cree Aux Lights,
    Progressive springs, Showa rear shocks
    Automatic CCT
    1980GH Special, Restored
    Stock Exhaust, New Handlebars, 1" Spacer in Fork Springs, Automatic CCT, Showa Rear Shocks
    '82 XJ1100 (Sold)
    Automatic CCT, RC Engineering 4 X 1 Exhaust, K&N Pods, #50 Pilot Jets, YICS Eliminator. Sorely missed.
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  • #2
    That's a cool looking sidecover, Cobia!

    Interesting...
    Good luck! Hope you get a buyer and a good price for it!
    Probably will make the right buyer's year!
    '82 XJ1100J Maxim (has been sold.)

    '79 F "Time Machine"... oh yeah, Baby.... (Sold back to Maximan)

    2011 Kaw Concours 14 ABS

    In the warden's words from Cool Hand Luke;
    "What we have here is a failure to communicate."

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    • #3
      I like the screened inlets on it. Makes it look fast just sittin' there!
      Richard
      '79 XS1100SF "Phantom Stranger" full fairing w/radio and cd player, H-D Roadking trunk, everything else stock
      '02 Honda VTX1800C

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      • #4
        A 74 TX500 was my first street bike restoration... After I finished it, I traded it in on a new 81 Honda CB750F.

        Larry
        Inventor of the YICS Eliminator. Want one? Get it here.
        http://www.xs11.com/forum/showthread...399#post183399

        If you're not riding, you're not living!
        82 XJ1100
        80 XS1100G (Project bike)
        64 Yamaha YA-6
        77 Suzuki TS-185

        79 XS1100SF Built this one for a friend.
        See it here... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBYT4C9_6Ac

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        • #5
          The TX and later XS 500 were nice riding bikes that were light and fast for their time. However they all had the same problem, a design flaw in the cylinder head leading to cracks. It was too bad they didn't fix it and I think the bad experience with the 8 valve 500 is why we don't have a 16v XS1100...

          Geezer
          Hi my name is Tony and I'm a bikeoholic.

          The old gray biker ain't what he used to be.

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          • #6
            Originally posted by Geezer View Post
            However they all had the same problem, a design flaw in the cylinder head leading to cracks.

            Geezer
            That's why I got rid of it, on it's second motor and the bike had less than 12,000 miles on it.

            Larry
            Inventor of the YICS Eliminator. Want one? Get it here.
            http://www.xs11.com/forum/showthread...399#post183399

            If you're not riding, you're not living!
            82 XJ1100
            80 XS1100G (Project bike)
            64 Yamaha YA-6
            77 Suzuki TS-185

            79 XS1100SF Built this one for a friend.
            See it here... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBYT4C9_6Ac

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            • #7
              Memories!

              Well,
              The '74 TX500A was my first NEW street bike. I had gotten a 67 Yama 305 twin 2 stroker first while still in High School, but it spent more time in the shop than out....died of a broken piston skirt and more!

              I got the 500 for graduation in '76 new from the showroom floor. I wrecked it a little over 2 weeks after I got it , did $1100 damage to a $1400 bike, but they didn't total it, replaced the front forks, fender, and handlebars and such. I rode it for 5-6 years in Texas. Took it on a trailer to Fla, rode all around Fla....Orlando, Daytona, St. Augustine riding 2 up with my best friend on a summer vacation. They had just STOPPED allowing folks to ride on the Daytona Race track a few weeks earlier!

              Then took it to California while in the Navy, rode around San Diego, Camp Pendleton and such. Then took it with me to Japan, and left it in it's MOTHER COUNTRY..brought back an XS750 triple and my 81SH NEW!
              Wish I had some photos handy, but they are buried somewhere in boxes!
              T.C.
              T. C. Gresham
              81SH "Godzilla" . . .1179cc super-rat.
              79SF "The Teacher" . . .basket case!
              History shows again and again,
              How nature points out the folly of men!

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