Which do you prefer?

[PhiSig1071]

OK, I might have a line on an old XS650 in decent shape cheap, and I am thinking of picking it up as a project. It's in decent shape, but could use some TLC. If I do pick it up I'm not sure what I want to do it it yet. I'm thinking of either cleaning it up and keeping it relatively stock, turning it into a "street tracker", turning it into a 'cafe racer, or turning it into an old school frisco style chopper. Right now I'm leaning toward the chopper, I've ridden two foot-clutch bikes, one was a 1953 45" Harley with jockey shift and the other was a rat-chop rebel 450 with a suicide shifter. I'm thinking the XS with a rigid frame, sprung seat, and a suicide shifter might be a nice addition to the garage. What do you guys think?

Stocker:
http://thetwinster.com/79_XS650.jpg

Street Tracker:
http://www.650motorcycles.com/60201c.jpg

Cafe':
http://www.tcbroschoppers.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/loadedguncustoms.jpg

Chopper (I probably going with flat drag bars instead of the apes):
http://www.freewebs.com/glchoppers/rickweb4.jpg

[dReWpY]

street tracker for sure

[Trip]

I really like the stocker and street tracker. The cafe wouldn't be bad. Out of those shown, I would want the tracker. This would be a neat project thread if you do it.

[Rider]

I don't like any of them.

[PhiSig1071]

I don't like any of them.

Of the four which do you like?

Trackers are kind of the trend in customs right now, along with baggers (which I am also kind of a fan of) and I'd like to do something different. You don't see many Suicide shift rat-choppers out there.

[Rider]

Street fighter it. I can see an easy transition to a street fighter on the cafe bike.

[the chi]

i like the street tracker and cafe both, but lean more towards the sturdier look of the cafe...

[Mr Lefty]

I like the street tracker also... but for me... none looked that appealing... I liked the caffe.. but it just didn't look like as a caffe... to... open I guess... the Street tracker looked best but that fuck'n exhaust has to go!

[shmike]

Chopper, without question.

Cafe is cool but there are better bikes to use (CB750 anyone?).

A street tracker was cool when noone else had one or when you converted an old Harley racebike. Now they are played out.

[OneSickPsycho]

Honestly... a bike like that... I'd just hack off the seat into a solo seat, take off the front fender, and rock some drag bars... Fin.

I voted Chopper.

[OneSickPsycho]

I guess I'd also hack the exhaust off right at the mounting bracket.

[Corey]

It'd be a toss up between the Cafe and the Street Tracker, but I'm leaning Cafe. But you couldn't go wrong with a Street Tracker either.

[PhiSig1071]

I like the chopper best, but to do it right I'll have to completely disassemble the bike and send it off to have a hardtail put on it. That's BIG money. But I love the look of the rigid frame, and I love the idea of a suicide shift, it's not hard at all, but it freaks people out.

I might do a quick cafe job on it until I can save up the cash to have the frame done or I blow up the motor and have to pull it out to rebuild it.

This is of course predicated on the assumption that I buy the bike instead of dumping the money into turning the KTM into the baddest tard on the planet.

:lol: Maybe that's the poll I should do.

[No Worries]

They look cool, but I rode a stocker once and wasn't impressed. As I remember, it was slow and vibrated. If I was looking for an older bike to modify, I would get one with some grunt. If it had to be a Yammi, it would be the excess 11 (XS1100). Or a GS1100E, CB900F, Ninja 900, FJ100, etc.

[PhiSig1071]

They look cool, but I rode a stocker once and wasn't impressed. As I remember, it was slow and vibrated. If I was looking for an older bike to modify, I would get one with some grunt. If it had to be a Yammi, it would be the excess 11 (XS1100). Or a GS1100E, CB900F, Ninja 900, FJ100, etc.

I actually have a friend that has three excess 11's, the first time I ever saw a XS650 was at a XS rally that he invited me too. I've ridden his XS11 Midnight Special and it's a fun bike. Another reason I'm kind of leaning toward the chopper is because it's very suited to this bike, it's a copy of the old brit twins that got chopped a lot. If I turn it into a tracker or a cafe it's always going to be underpowered, if I turn it into a chop it's not a problem if it's slow and vibrates.

[marko138]

Tracker is it.

[tached1000rr]

voted street tracker