Hi, Here is my 1978 XS 650 Special. I picked this bike up on New Years day 2008, for 200 bucks. It was sitting in some dudes yard under a foot of snow.  I brought it home to my at the time unheated garage and starting cutting off tabs and cleaning it up. After a temporary move and another permanent move I still found time to work on the bike.

It's re-built from the cases up with 2 new crank bearings, high ratio 5th gears, .5mm over bore pistons & rings, a valve job and billet cam from 650 motorcycles. All new seals & gaskets, new clutch plates & heavy springs, Boyer ignition and 36mm round slides. Lots of parts purchased from Mikes XS, and the fiberglass seat is from Omar's. I used stock cr125 bars with some black powder coat added.  The exhaust pipes are Shell TT pipes with exhaust port optimizers and torque peak optimizers.

I still need to buy Omar's 19" rear wheel conversion for the 19" e-bay special wheel I picked up for 30 bucks. All I have left to do is pull the motor again, powder coat the frame and make the tank & seat look pretty. Please feel free to send any comments or questions to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

Shane Lucas
Tecumseh, MI.