yamaha xs850

[tbone]

my latest project, a 1980 XS850. The bike was bought as spares or repair on ebay for £200, the guy said it was running bike n just needed tidying up, yeah rite!!!. When i asked for the V5 his reply was ` am selling it for a mate n he`s lost it, when asked for the key he said ` i havent got one, it dont need one anyway cos the switch is broke`. Sound dodgy yet?
Well, after i got it home i had a check done by the dvla and apart from the fact it was registered as black n silver, n it was actually green and white, all was well. PHEW!!
What you see below is the stage i`m at now,having just done the prop, the only jobs left are exhaust, rear brakes and rear indicators. Hopefully if i remeber, i`ll try and write these up as i do them.

[Manky Monkey]

That'd be great. Thanks.Write each job up as a seperate article, add a couple of explanatory piccies & I'll badger Yodie to put it in the Tech section of the Motors bit.
My first two trikes were a his 'n' hers matched pair of XS750s. The girlfriend's blue one is in the Motors, 3 Wheels section. I had 3 or 4 XS650s, 3 XS750s I think & 1 XS850. Also recently owned a cut down XS1100 for about 3 weeks before selling it to Summer & Gypsy who plan to trike it.