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  • A bittersweet moment...

    Most of you have followed my XS11 journey from its inception at a ratty stock special:


    to a full on cafe bike:


    This was my first real streetbike, and has launched what I fear to be a long relationship with two wheels. But, there are too many bikes in the barn, and I am selling my 11 to make room for another, one which may be more purposeful to another end. Here is the CL ad:
    http://bozeman.craigslist.org/mcy/2331371716.html

    It's posted, and I am pretty firm on the price, hoping that it won't sell as a result. If it does it opens a lot of other possibilities, which will all be for the better. I think with my overactive modification disease, I won't ever have one bike for any length of time...

    Anyway, if it does sell, I will be around to check in and post up some good chop shop reading, and if it doesnt sell, I will just still be around!
    Healthy is merely the slowest rate at which you can die

    Some people will tell you that slow is good - and it may be, on some days - but I am here to tell you that fast is better. I’ve always believed this, in spite of the trouble it’s caused me. Being shot out of a cannon will always be better than being squeezed out of a tube. That is why God made fast motorcycles, Bubba….Hunter S. Thompson

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    Say it isn't so, T
    I'm not sure when it was ever ratty.
    79 XS11 Special (Lazarus)
    80 XS850 Special (Old Faithful)
    80 XS11 Standard sorta stock (Beatrice)
    79 DT 100

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    • #3
      Hemi Head???

      I see on your ad it says Hemi engine...........If (and thats a pretty good if) my memory serves me right, the XS1100 Had a polyspheric head didnt it? that way they didnt have to use the big crowned pistons and could get away with a lot lighter set up? Just Curious.......Beautiful Cafe racer set up though really good job
      Abe
      1981 XS1100H Venturer #458
      poor thing has about a dozen nicknames depending on the day we are having......lol


      My Parents Told Me I Could Be Anything I Wanted.....So I Became An @$$hole

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