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This is an engine removal, tilting lifting thingie I made for my XS650. The XS650 motor is a very tight fit in the frame, In their wisdom, the Japanese decided if you need to work on the engine, it should be removed from the frame. But removing the engine from the frame is not an easy job as...

I put this page together to document the steps in building the 74 TX650. With the exception of chrome work, upholstery and rebore, everything was done in my workshop. It's a public page, so no need to join...

No, but then again there's not a ot of bikes with spin on filters in that position. There is a conversion you can buy with the spin filter on the bottom of the engine, but I build rather than buy, and that's asking for trouble. I didn't fancy that, so I put it at the front. I have considered...

I can’t ride anymore, buggered hips, fused fingers, buggered toes and no elbow joints left make it impossible. But the time had come for the bike’s first test ride, so, I started the bike and rode it gingerly out of the workshop and up to the garage, legs stepping as I went, and there I stopped...

Couple of pics of the finished bike, plus a quick video fly around. Lots and lots of mods on this one, not a great deal of Yamaha left...

These are a couple of headlight brackets I made up, and the process for bending them. The end had to be a pretty tight bend to get the clamping screws in as close the stanchions as possible so as not to bend the clamps when tightening. Unfortunately, if you bend non annealed aluminium too...

Before convertingnto VM carbs, my 74 ran BS38 carbs, some of these bikes came with non linked carbs, instead using a twin cable throttle, one cable for each carb. Adjustments were made via the inline cable adjusters. A very fiddly process. To simplify the system, I bought a single cable throttle...

What fun these were to make, I'd forgotten what a joy stainless is to work with. I had 10 stainless T nuts to make, 6 plain, 4 knurled. Plain ones for fitting inside gromets, knurled ones for securing air filter covers. What fun these were to make, drill the hole, heat the stock up, let it...

Standardexhaust ipe. 42mm x 1.6mm

Exhaust system build. I mocked up a pipe for the right side, welding together some exhaust pipe at the appropriate angles with the right amount of twist, fitted it to make sure it looked right, then took it to an exhaust centre and asked them to mandrel bend four bends from 42mm pipe to match...