XS650 shit

As it sounds. Got around to getting XS pictures off the camera. Outdated as I now have the seat rails cut out, bent up new tubes for a drop seat and got that in, but... whatever. Shows the direction it's going.

Tomorrow if I have motivation I'll make the call on whether or not I'll run the frisco'd sporty or a standard sporty. If I go standard I'll fab up some quickie bungs and weld those into the frame after cutting out and welding in the new gussets as the stock one is horrid. Shock mounts also been moved an inch lower. And it'll be getting cut off and a new one welded up 1" back on the swingarm. Again. Saves me from buying either a cheap (overpriced) lowering kit or running a set of shorties. Goal is to have less than $700 into the pig. So far I'm at... $165. So.. I've got a crap ton of space left. Which covers steel stock for the pipes, the gasket kit on the way to rebuild the motor. Steel stock if I feel like being unlazy and fabricating my own internal throttle. New tires. set of used 34mm slider carbs. Whatever.

Also this isn't the tank being used. It's a junker I keep floating around I flaked as a demo a while back. Comes in handy. Real handy. I still might say F it and section the sporty tank I've got floating around for this bastard. That or at the least fill the center filler and move it to the upper right side of the tank. *shrug* depends on how bored / drunk I get tomorrow.

Forks have been final thrown together now. Wound up pulling another quarter inch out of the springs, making it a 1 3/4" drop spring with a 2" spacer I turned up. Sits nice. With no spring in the legs I can compress the legs fully and I still have a ~2" air gap between the lower tree and top o the tire. Works for me.

Got a chunk of 7/8" tubing coming to bend up a set of my own mini-apes. They'll be just as wide as my mid controls and sit at 11.25" tall. Just to be able to say I've got 11.25" apes and mind F people, because I'm nice like that. Or I still might say F it and run a 1" bar... but that'd require buying new controls..and I'm cheap. And lazy as I already have a couple sets of 7/8" controls kicking around. This is the 'shit bike' afterall. I haven't decided yet..but I'm leaning towards 7/8" and the junk ruber isolated stock risers. Again. They're cheap. I'm lazy. They work. So screw it.