Born on Date 4/78

[jkorn]

While considering what needed to be done to the XS this winter I was reminded by the 30 anniversary rides coming up this summer that yes the XS is close to 30 years old. So I took a peak at the bike and the born on date is 4/78. So the old beast is about 30 years old this month. I don't think I bought it untill 2/79.

So the now the bike is in a million pieces as I have deceided it was time to give it its 30 year tuneup. It been good to me so I want to be good to it.

I was wondering if there are many other original owners out there that bought their bikes new. I would be interesting to see what the average milege and history of them is.


Jeff

[motoman]

A bit behind ya...........81'............almost bought a Wing Aspencade instead. Think I made the better choice with the sport tourer of the day before that term was even used for bikes.

[jkorn]

Yes the XS has been a great bike. I guess the major reasons I bought it back then was.

1. Fastest production motorcycle on the street. Unfortunantly this only lasted a couple of months till susuki came out with their 4 valvue head

2. Drive shaft. No more oil on me.

Jeff

[xswilly]

hi jeff
I'm an original owner of a 78 xs11e

I drove it till about 87 then it needed some repair, haveing gotten married and a place of my own, i couldn't afford the repairs
so i parked it until, i could afford to fix it.
well time went by and finally i dug it out and did a complete go thru, about 5 years ago.
it has 16000 miles on it
i don't get to ride it as much as i would like to,
but i never sold it and never will

[fredintoon]

Hi Jeff,
not the XS11, no. But I bought a NOS '84 XS650 Heritage Special still new in box in '86 and it is still with me. I hung a sidecar on the 650 a while back but it lacked the power to keep up with traffic on the highway. That's when I got the XS11. It has power and to spare while the sidecar makes the XS11's quaint handling irrelevant.

[jkorn]

right on..