So about 3 years ago I bought a running XS11 Special. I use the term running as exactly that. It started and ran but was not road worthy at all and completely hacked up by the PO. Fast forward 2 and a half years, a divorce and 3 moves in a year later and I finally got the room to work on this thing. As I said before it was in pretty rough shape but some TLC and a lot of maintenance later and I made a neat little cafe type build. The bike has been gone through from front to back and whatever needed to be redone within budget was. It was in no way capable of a restore so I went this route and I hope you all like it but if ya don't... to each their own. Sorry for the dirty low quality pictures but I do what I can with a crap phone. And I just blew a shop light... and I was out of brakekleen. haha
Issue 1:
I'm running rear only brakes by default. I have a set of brembo gold calipers from a Ducati that I heard might fit but I don't know where to get these magical caliper brackets for them or if I need to fab some myself and the clearance from pad to rotor seemed a bit tight but maybe thats just me?
Issue 2:
I'm currently running headpipes to collectors with no mufflers because the 4-1 set up I have needs longer exhaust studs. So, is there somewhere that offers longer studs or am I better off finding some grade 8 studs at the hardware store?
Issue 3:
The real problem... After getting the charging system figured out and syncing the carbs I thought I had the bike done. About three miles from home to make sure it was in running order I lost all power to the rear wheel. Engine running great and transmission shifting through with no problem but no go. After listening to what sounded like a roll of nickles in what I think is around the middle drive gear for my 3 mile push home I had some time to think. I'm really not familiar with these shaft drive bikes and I have been led to believe they're bulletproof and about as close to maintenance free as you can get but I'm learning that's not the case with mine somewhere along the line. I researched on here a bit before tearing into the bike and after checking out http://www.xs11.com/forum/showthread.php?t=42556 I thought I had a good direction but so far everything is good. All I have is a Clymers and I know you guys have way more experience with these than I do so try to steer me a little here. I'm not familiar with metric bikes so much let alone shaft drive but I am mechanically inclined so point and direct and hopefully I'll get it done. whats my next step and where do I start with this middle drive gear? I'm not even positive where the middle drive gear is and the book is trying to tell me to pull the motor if I'm reading it correctly and I don't think that's necessary. I also thought maybe the clutch had something to do with it but I haven't dived into that yet.
Sorry if I messed up links or pics let me know if I need to change something. I'm new to this forum stuff.
Thanks in advance for any help,
Matt
Issue 1:
I'm running rear only brakes by default. I have a set of brembo gold calipers from a Ducati that I heard might fit but I don't know where to get these magical caliper brackets for them or if I need to fab some myself and the clearance from pad to rotor seemed a bit tight but maybe thats just me?
Issue 2:
I'm currently running headpipes to collectors with no mufflers because the 4-1 set up I have needs longer exhaust studs. So, is there somewhere that offers longer studs or am I better off finding some grade 8 studs at the hardware store?
Issue 3:
The real problem... After getting the charging system figured out and syncing the carbs I thought I had the bike done. About three miles from home to make sure it was in running order I lost all power to the rear wheel. Engine running great and transmission shifting through with no problem but no go. After listening to what sounded like a roll of nickles in what I think is around the middle drive gear for my 3 mile push home I had some time to think. I'm really not familiar with these shaft drive bikes and I have been led to believe they're bulletproof and about as close to maintenance free as you can get but I'm learning that's not the case with mine somewhere along the line. I researched on here a bit before tearing into the bike and after checking out http://www.xs11.com/forum/showthread.php?t=42556 I thought I had a good direction but so far everything is good. All I have is a Clymers and I know you guys have way more experience with these than I do so try to steer me a little here. I'm not familiar with metric bikes so much let alone shaft drive but I am mechanically inclined so point and direct and hopefully I'll get it done. whats my next step and where do I start with this middle drive gear? I'm not even positive where the middle drive gear is and the book is trying to tell me to pull the motor if I'm reading it correctly and I don't think that's necessary. I also thought maybe the clutch had something to do with it but I haven't dived into that yet.
Sorry if I messed up links or pics let me know if I need to change something. I'm new to this forum stuff.
Thanks in advance for any help,
Matt
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