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The first puddle you go through or rain you get caught in... you're going to SCREAM! lol. Very nice.
Tod
Tod
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Try your hardest to be the kind of person your dog thinks you are.
You can live to be 100, as long as you give up everything that would make you want to live to be 100!
Current bikes:
'06 Suzuki DR650
*'82 XJ1100 with the 1179 kit. "Mad Maxim"
'82 XJ1100 Completely stock fixer-upper
'82 XJ1100 Bagger fixer-upper
'82 XJ1100 Motor/frame and lots of boxes of parts
'82 XJ1100 Parts bike
'81 XS1100 Special
'81 YZ250
'80 XS850 Special
'80 XR100
*Crashed/Totalled, still own -
What are you doing with the jugs and head? polishing? painting?80 XS1100SG
81 XS400SH
Some men miss opportunity because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. - Thomas Edison
A Few Animations I've MadeComment
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Remove before flight
AK is that an Embry-Riddle remove before flight key chain? I have one just like it. Nice chrome BTW.
wingnut
81 SH (Daily Ride)
81 650XJ (Brother in laws bike, Delivered)
81 650XJ Jane Doe (Son's Ride)
82 750XJ Project bike (Son in law's future ride)
81 XS 400
No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another; and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him.”
A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have.
Thomas JeffersonComment
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JWSanders - I'm going to give it the Rub N' Buff treatment. I really want to paint it black someday, but for this season it's going to stay natural aluminium. Maybe when she gets the 1200cc kit I'll paint it glossy black. I'm also mid way through polishing the cooling fin edges.
wingnut - I actually got that at the pilot shop from my work. Are you a pilot too?
I hope you guys don't mind my XSive pictures, but here's some more of the Chrome wheels assembled. The bearings weren't as hard as to install as I thought they would be. Everything went together pretty smoothly.
1979 XS1100 Special (Chrome Queen)Comment
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.. great looking rotors.Comment
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Oh wow, those rotors are nice!!
That's going to be one badass bike when you're through, from the look of it. Can't wait to see the finished product!80 XS1100SG
81 XS400SH
Some men miss opportunity because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. - Thomas Edison
A Few Animations I've MadeComment
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Flying
Not professionally as a mater of fact I’m not even current. Spend all my time working on the maintenance side of the business and playing with the bike. Use to own a 140 but it got so expensive it had to go. Close as I can get to flying now is a trip down the intestate on the 81.wingnut
81 SH (Daily Ride)
81 650XJ (Brother in laws bike, Delivered)
81 650XJ Jane Doe (Son's Ride)
82 750XJ Project bike (Son in law's future ride)
81 XS 400
No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another; and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him.”
A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have.
Thomas JeffersonComment
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WOW!!!!
That might just be the best looking XS1100 in the world when you are done.Post lots of Pic's!!! I want to see this bike come togeather!!! Regular progress reports would be nice!!I hope you guys don't mind my XSive pictures, but here's some more of the Chrome wheels assembled. The bearings weren't as hard as to install as I thought they would be. Everything went together pretty smoothly.Dan ( A.K.A.- MacGyver )Comment
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factory
That's how yamaha should have sent them from the factory.MDRNF
79F.....Not Stock
80G......Not Stock Either....In the worksComment
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WOW
like the rest of them, I can't wait to see the finised project. Don't make us wait though, keep posting as you get more assembled."If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z. X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." - Albert Einstein
"Illegitimi non carborundum"-Joseph W. "Vinegar Joe" Stilwell
1980 LG
1981 LHComment
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Oh my God, I've gone blind!Shiny side up,
650 Mike
XS1100SF "Rusty", runs great, 96k miles
XS650SJ "The Black Bike", engine from XS650H with 750cc big bore kit, 30k miles
Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in one pretty and well preserved piece, but to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, worn out and defiantly shouting, "WOW, what a ride !" - [URL="http://www.flyingsnail.com/Sprung/index.html"]Sprung[/URL]Comment
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Doctor, my EYES ! ! !
Hey AkMac,
BE-AU-TI-FUL ! ! Your future's so bright, you'll have to wear shades!
BTW, I hope your front wheel is turned backwards, otherwise you may have your disc rotors on backwards...note the direction of the drilled holes swirl pattern!?
As for fitting those MikesXS chrome control sets, would be very nice if you could document the layout of the wires, and which ones you needed to swap, or what plugs you needed to put on, so that others who wish to do the same thing could benefit from your pioneering efforts!! Thanks in Advance!
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!Comment
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Don't think it matters which way the swirl pattern is on the rotors, matter of esthetics, not function.
BTW Mikes XS carries all the various plugs one would need to wire those switches up to the stock harness.Shiny side up,
650 Mike
XS1100SF "Rusty", runs great, 96k miles
XS650SJ "The Black Bike", engine from XS650H with 750cc big bore kit, 30k miles
Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in one pretty and well preserved piece, but to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, worn out and defiantly shouting, "WOW, what a ride !" - [URL="http://www.flyingsnail.com/Sprung/index.html"]Sprung[/URL]Comment
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Forgot to mention, Mike has nice lightweight floating rotors which will fit XS11s as well as XS650s.Shiny side up,
650 Mike
XS1100SF "Rusty", runs great, 96k miles
XS650SJ "The Black Bike", engine from XS650H with 750cc big bore kit, 30k miles
Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in one pretty and well preserved piece, but to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, worn out and defiantly shouting, "WOW, what a ride !" - [URL="http://www.flyingsnail.com/Sprung/index.html"]Sprung[/URL]Comment
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[QUOTE]Originally posted by AKMac
[B]Maybe when she gets the 1200cc kit I'll paint it glossy black. I'm also mid way through polishing the cooling fin edges.
QUOTE] How are youpolishing the fins? I filed mine down until they were flat and smooth, then sanded them with 220 grit wet/dry sand paper. Painted the engine black, baked the parts in the oven to cure them, and scraped the piant off the fins with a razor blade, and sanded them again.Comment
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