Showing posts with label Yamaha XS1100. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Yamaha XS1100. Show all posts
Sunday, 17 April 2016

Affidavits & Broken Ownerships

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The XS1100 is finally mine.  After buying it off a clueless millennial who had managed to lose all useful paperwork associated with the b...
Sunday, 20 March 2016

Bye Bye KLX

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Selling a bike is always difficult.  In the case of the KLX it happened very quickly.  It didn't cost me anything to own it (what I g...
Sunday, 8 November 2015

Sense of Satisfaction!

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After all the Maker talk this week at a conference I attended , I was keen to spend some quality time in the garage working on the 35 year...
Sunday, 25 October 2015

Rainy Day Carburators

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A cold, rainy Saturday had me break down the carburetor on the Yamaha XS1100 .  A Triumph Spitfire and Mercury LN7 owned as a teen made me...
Saturday, 17 October 2015

XS1100: Steps Toward Resuscitation

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Snow last night, the XS got some mechanical attention today as a result. After looking over some internet advice  (sic) on how to start ...
Thursday, 8 October 2015

Mechanical Sympathy

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I've always had an over abundance of mechanical sympathy .  That sympathy often spills over into full on empathy for machines.  While I ...
Saturday, 26 September 2015

Yamaha XS1100: The Midnight Saga

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Buddy Jeff gave me a hand getting the XS1100 home the other day; he's an enabler. Getting it on the trailer was a bit tricky as the ...
Monday, 7 September 2015

Rivers to Roads

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Yesterday I took the KLX out for a stretch, today the Concours.  I'm trying to get her up over thirty thousand miles this season.  Than...
Sunday, 30 August 2015

Midnight Thoughts

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What we have here is a Yamaha XS1100 'Midnight Special' .  It looks like it needs some love and is for sale for $500 along with so...
Thursday, 10 October 2013

Sidecar for my Side Kick

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Side cars are cool! I've been thinking about getting a second bike, one that lets me do some distance with my son (and wife if I can...