XS650Last chance to enter the Chop Source Frame jig giveaway! See home page for link.XS650Chop Source is giving away another frame jig! /forum/showthread.php?t=45185Giveaway: Chop Source Frame Jig Kit! (ends 11pm CST on March 31th, 2016) - XS650 ForumXS650The pre-sale for the XS650 calendars is over. If you missed it and wanted one, get your order in soon. Only a limited number of extras were ordered and they sell out every year. If you placed your order during the pre-sale, your calendar will ship soon!XS650The 2016 XS650 Calendars are ready to order! Make sure you get your order in during the pre-sale to ensure you get one! /forum/showthread.php?t=44179XS650 added 26 new photos.Vote for the XS650s you want to see in the 2016 XS650 Calendar! /forum/showthread.php?t=40036Giveaway: Chop Source Frame Jig Kit! (ends 11pm CST on March 8th, 2015) - XS650 ForumXS650Merry Christmas! Now hurry up and order your 2015 XS650 Calendar! Only 1 day left for the pre-sale!2015 XS650 Calendar Proof and Pre-Sale Link - XS650 ForumXS650Last day to vote for the XS650s you want to see in the 2015 calendar!

and click the link on the main page to vote.XS650The nominations are in, and now it's time to vote for the XS650s you want to see in the 2015 XS650 Calendar! /forum/showthread.php?t=38633XS650Check out these new heat shields from Lowbrow Customs! You choose the two you want. Submit your nominations now! /forum/showthread.php?t=382542015 XS650 Calendar Info **Submit Nominations Here** - XS650 ForumXS650 shared Chop Source's photo.XS650 frame in a Chop Source frame jig. /forum/showthread.php?t=17595Chop SourceChop Source Frame Jig with Rotisserie StandXS650 shared Bike EXIF's photo.Bike EXIF with and 3 others.Is there any racing livery more evocative than Yamaha’s classic ‘speed block’ pattern? Jeff Palhegyi’s XS650 dirt tracker looks sensational. XS650 via Hugh's HandBuiltHHB XS650 Motor Mount Kit (74-Up)XS650 shared TC Bros.'s photo.TC Bros.TC Bros. Customer Rides – a series dedicated to the fabrication ingenuity and creativity of our customers and featuring their rides they've shared with us.

Sent... to us from Greg Bruins of Airdrie, Alberta, Canada. /news/greg_bruins/ XS650 updated their cover photo.Giveaway: TC Bros Choppers XS650 Builder Exhaust Kit (ends 11pm CST October 1, 2013) - XS650 ForumXS650Want to win this Universal Mono Shock Solo Seat from Monstercraftsman? Affenpinscher Puppies For Sale In Washington/forum/showthread.php?t=27675 The giveaway ends at 11pm CST on June 4, 2013. Puppies For Sale In Grants Pass OregonIt's free to enter! Homes For Sale In Pefferlaw OntarioPlease Like and Share! XS650Get your 2013 XS650 Calendar today! One day left to order!2013 XS650 Calendar! - shirts made again, and they are now ready to pre-order! This year we have two great designs and this is your chance to get exactly what you want.

Hurry, you only have until 11pm CST on Saturday September 15th to order! Also, during the presale, enter for a chance to win a Daniel Peirce XS650 engine print or magnet. and buy your shirt today! / - Shirt Presale! (Presale ends Saturday September 15th, 2012 at 11pm CST) shirts again after a successful shirt sale during the Spring of 2011. Well here they are! We have two designs this year. Daniel Pierce was nice enough to let us use his XS6...‘81 Yamaha XS650 – Modern Motor Cycle Company In the space of less than a year in the late 1960s two Japanese heavyweights released motorcycles that would go on to be hugely popular in the modern custom bike scene. First Yamaha with its XS650 and then Honda with the CB750; while the Honda is considered the first Superbike and was designed to seek and destroy its British rivals, the Yamaha was based on classic styling and an engine as Brit as Big Ben. Whereas the evolution of the CB range has progressed to the most modern of motorcycles, the XS650 remained true to its classic styling for its entire production run.

One man who truly understands classic design and builds a mean Yamaha is Christian Condo of Melbourne’s Modern Motor Cycle Company and this 1981 XS650 Heritage Special is his latest masterpiece. Yamaha XS650 – River Rat Cycles When the Yamaha engineers put pencil to paper and created the XS650 with its classic looking parallel twin they could never have imagined that so many decades later it would continue to be a cult classic. But when Heath Reed owner of River Rat Cycle Fab from Davenport Iowa was commissioned to build this 1977 example he didn’t want to simply run with the pack and do the standard modifications. Instead the brilliant fabricator spent hours in deep thought working out how he could create more than just another XS650 tracker. In the end he came up with a hybrid; a tracker with a touch of café racer, street fighter styling cues and a little inspiration from the greatest guitar ever made! With the design finalised Heath set about giving the ’77 XS a second birth that when finished would be known as “The Rattler”.

Yamaha XS650 – Kick Moto There are a lot of memes floating around the internet about Mum’s basements and not a single one of them kind. Often the domain of keyboard warriors and 40-year-old virgins, finally we’ve made a basement discovery from those dark depths that’s worth paying attention to. The fine lads from KickMoto in Halifax, Nova Scotia had a customer who was after a clean Yamaha XS650. As fate would have it, a friend of the workshop just so happened to have a stash of XS650’s stored in his mother’s downstairs you-know-what. Yamaha XS650 – Motogadgets Dust off the drafting table, refill the clutch pencil and grab the dividers. Retired Dutch Architect Henk Woltjer has teamed up with local shop Motogadgets to create the perfect motorcycle to relive his youth; it’s a millimetre-exact Yamaha XS650 tracker inspired by the first bike he built some thirty years earlier. Yamaha XS650 by Holiday Customs Words by Ian Lee. If it wasn’t for the last minute, nothing would get done.

Whether a Pipeburn post, or project bike, there is nothing like the rush of racing that deadline for completion. Just ask Jared Johnson of Holiday Customs. The bike featured here today had the final touches put on it at 10pm on the night before The One Motorcycle Show. Utilising a UJM for his entry into the legendary Portland bike show, Jared gave the 1975 XS650 the Schwinn styled frame that the Holiday workshop is famous for. ‘75 Yamaha XS650 – Maccomotors If you’ve got any lingering doubts about the 21st Century custom motorcycle scene not being a truly global affair, then prepare to have them squashed like the model buildings in a Godzilla movie. This, the 4th Maccomotors bike to feature on Pipeburn, is the product of no less than four different countries; namely Spain, Mexico, the UK and Japan. And although you might assume that such an international affair might end up looking like a poster child for design-by-committee, we’re here to tell you it’s turned out quite the opposite.

Say ‘hola’ to ‘The Mexican’. 1977 Yamaha XS650 – ‘Escape Machine’ Hill Hudson is a talented young illustrator studying at the Pacific Northwest College Of Art in Portland, Oregon. This year he had to complete his senior thesis, which usually involves doing an illustration. But Hill wanted to do something a little different and build a motorcycle. “I guess I’m the first to ever do this in the history of the 100 plus years the school as been running” he says. “This thesis will be documented and stored in the library here in Portland and will go down as the first art school breakdown and construction of a motorcycle in a gallery setting at this school”. Hill’s project started by searching for a suitable low cost donor. He eventually found a 1977 XS650 that was the perfect ‘blank canvas’ for his art project and got to work. Yamaha XS650 – Kott Motorcycles Written by the builder, Dustin Kott from Kott Motorcycles. Years ago I rode a 1972 XS650, also known as the XS2 from Los Angeles, California to Sturgis, South Dakota.

I was wearing a cheap rain suit from Walmart in the pouring rain going at least 100 MPH to dodge the inclement weather. When I stopped at a gas station some locals took one look at me and said “you were going so fast that your damn clothes are tearing off! You passed us like we were standing still!” These are my memories of the infamous XS650 made famous by the legendary Kenny Roberts Yamaha XS650 – ‘YABSA’ Written by Ian Lee. Some bike builders are like magicians. They take particular props, put them together and ‘hey presto’, produce something you didn’t think was possible. A mixture of new and old componentry on a bike build is an example of this. If you lean too far one way, or the other, you can ruin the concept of a build. Or at the very least, while trying to put a new image on an bygone concept, you have the motorcycle equivalent of David Hasselhoff. Roberto Totti and the team at Hook Motors have what it takes to mix new with old, and with over thirty years of experience in Robert alone, you can see the professionalism put into their builds.