Decided we like 256 engine internals despite their lack of availability. Have convinced myself through my half-assed research that we can still get a 750cc kit and the other good stuff we'll need to make my little 650 not so little anymore.
...really do need to look into this further at some point.
So pulled apart the front end today, lets see what we have here.
Need new tubes, light rust is much deeper than originally thought.
Saw tubes on MikeXS, ha! I'll go order me some of those cheap Chinese tubes... oops, don't have 34mm tubes, I'll look elsewhere. Oh oh, no tubes anywhere on the planet!!!!
More research/googling, don't know how we did anything before the Internet, so found some in Germany...
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A set of tubes for 1972 XS2 is $269.00; One tube is $135.00
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When I worked with my good friend Roger, we bought tubes from Forking by Frank. I'll find them again and give em a call. At least they'll be made right and also be made in the USA.
OK, so its like almost twice what we paid for the bike guess the fork rebuild might be a little more than we thought. Oh yeah, we want to shorten it a couple of inches as well, almost forgot. Guess what, no one does that to the "early" XS's. Starting to not like that word "early" with XS, it always seems to be followed by much higher prices than my web scanning had first indicated.
Anyways opened up the forks. No top out springs under the damper rod, so ordered some custom, (read $$$), wound springs to fit in there to pull the fork down a couple of inches, cool. Found some progressive wound springs somewhere, think Germany.
Anyways into the lathe they go, get rid of those cast in attachments all over them. Think I like the brake mounted on the front of the leg, different. Maybe some Yamaha R1 parts might work there.
