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Greetings all, hope you all don't mind me joining your forum.
Well today i talked myself into buying xs 1100 fer some reason i dont know what came over me ive never been intrested in yamahas ive always driven Triumphs and i currently ride a custom t-bird 900.
Anyways i stumbled across it at a workshop near by by work and it was sort of in bits well everything is intact apart from the seat,fuel tank, front and rear lights the clocks and indicators oh and the tin ware they where all in a box besides it. But dam did it looked kinda a mean and sexy all naked like that, it was crying out to me, so what the heck the guy twisted my arm and i bought it for 800quid that's about 1300 dollars to use guys.
The bike in question is a 1978 yamaha xs 1100 bored out to 1220cc with a russ colins turbo pro- fited kit.The engine has 1220cc low compresion NOT standard, one single carb directly fed to turbo.The only things that are needed to finish the bike are the tank and rear mudgard to be painted set of inlet rubbers and some time and of course all the wiring of lights electrics etc.
But i think it has potential but i keep asking myself to i have the ability to bring this baby back to life? My knowledge of mechanics is limited when comes to bikes. Im more of a rider than a giver but i used to re build type 1 vw engines for about 5 years and did up vw bugs when i was a bit younger.But i must say ive never did a bike before.
So is this the right place to be will you guys give me some great advice and maybe give me a few pointers where to begin.
Ill post some picks soon.
Thanks
Tom
Well today i talked myself into buying xs 1100 fer some reason i dont know what came over me ive never been intrested in yamahas ive always driven Triumphs and i currently ride a custom t-bird 900.
Anyways i stumbled across it at a workshop near by by work and it was sort of in bits well everything is intact apart from the seat,fuel tank, front and rear lights the clocks and indicators oh and the tin ware they where all in a box besides it. But dam did it looked kinda a mean and sexy all naked like that, it was crying out to me, so what the heck the guy twisted my arm and i bought it for 800quid that's about 1300 dollars to use guys.
The bike in question is a 1978 yamaha xs 1100 bored out to 1220cc with a russ colins turbo pro- fited kit.The engine has 1220cc low compresion NOT standard, one single carb directly fed to turbo.The only things that are needed to finish the bike are the tank and rear mudgard to be painted set of inlet rubbers and some time and of course all the wiring of lights electrics etc.
But i think it has potential but i keep asking myself to i have the ability to bring this baby back to life? My knowledge of mechanics is limited when comes to bikes. Im more of a rider than a giver but i used to re build type 1 vw engines for about 5 years and did up vw bugs when i was a bit younger.But i must say ive never did a bike before.
So is this the right place to be will you guys give me some great advice and maybe give me a few pointers where to begin.
Ill post some picks soon.
Thanks
Tom
Terry
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