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XS650 XR style seat unit , shown with blk pad . long enough for two up riding this one . We usually trim off a bit of the tail tho ! (it's long like the XLCR cafe racer !)
XSS.RM £99
XSP.RM £69
MCN Scottish Bike Show 2018.
The Yamaha XS650 is a mid-size motorcycle made by Yamaha Motor Company. The standard model was introduced in October 1969,and produced through 1979.
At the 1977 British GP at Silverstone.
The original was shot on Ilford FP4 film using a Canon AE-1 and Tamron 300 mm lens. The negative was photographed using a Canon EOS 40D and Canon 60 mm macro lens.
Craig from Kickstart garage built this off road XS650 and got it all tied up and took it out for a shoot. kickstart-garage.com/
Not my usual subject , but my son dropped by yesterday on his 1971 Yamaha XS650 and I couldn't resist it... especially as it wasn't glaring sunlight and I could see what I was doing - well, sort of!
He has 'customised' it to give it a 'Street Scrambler' look. He is a Mechanic by trade and has a few old cars/bikes that he loves to restore and use on the road.
Craig from Kickstart garage built this off road XS650 and got it all tied up and took it out for a shoot. kickstart-garage.com/
But maybe one day. Meantime I have a new dress from the outlet as Simply Be, it's not often I find a dress with a good length and which seems it'll fit me well, as this one does and on sale. The shoes also from there. The Motorcycle, a Yamaha XS650 SE 1981 which is either a future project or will be sold on one day, time will tell. For now just a garden feature.
Craig from Kickstart garage built this off road XS650 and got it all tied up and took it out for a shoot. kickstart-garage.com/
I have recently become only the third owner of this 1978 (although registered 1/1/79) Yamaha XS650SE.
It has just 9800 miles on the clock and is pictured in West Cumbria against a backdrop of the Irish Sea. It began its life with a U.S. serviceman in California. When he was posted to Germany the bike went with him and stayed there until imported to the UK in 2016.
hung out wit craig from kickstart garage kickstart-garage.com/
26/04/2026, Breakfast Car Meet, Kersey Mill, Kersey, Suffolk, England.
The owner informs me that it is an "XS2, manufactured 1971 for the 1972 market. I restored it 8 years ago & has covered approx. 7,000 miles since."
Surprisingly, the model's mechanical lineage traces back to the German Horex designs via the Japanese manufacturer Hosk.
Yamaha acquired the design after absorbing Showa (which had previously bought Hosk).
This model was fitted with Yamaha's first four-stroke motorcycle engine.
The XS650 was produced from 1969 to 1985.
Data:
Engine: 654 cc air-cooled, 4-stroke parallel twin, SOHC, 2 valves per cylinder.
Bore / Stroke: 75 mm × 74 mm.
Power Output: 53 bhp (40 kW) @ 7,000 rpm.
Transmission: 5-speed manual, with chain final drive.
Top Speed: 169 km/h (105 mph).
Weight:185 kg (408 lb) dry / 194 kg (428 lb) wet.
Over 50 years ago, a friend, Chris Dunnett (RIP) lived in the same street as me, and bought a new XS650 which can be seen in this image: flic.kr/p/2koGUWg
Chris mollycoddled the bike and rarely used it.
That year or the next, I really don't remember, I returned home on shore leave from the sea, and didn't have a motorbike to hand. I wasn't going to be home long, so negotiated a deal with Chris for me to borrow his bike for a few weeks for a generous sum. Again, I do not remember how much.
It had only covered some 1,800 miles, but when I handed it back to him, it had over 3,600 miles on it, some of the miles being racked up on a trip to the Isle of Wight.
I told him it needed running in, and it did.
It was a better bike for it!
Craig from Kickstart garage built this off road XS650 and got it all tied up and took it out for a shoot. kickstart-garage.com/