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Review of the 1981 Yamaha XJ 650:Dialy driver of a 650 XJ |
1981 Yamaha XJ 650. Picture submitted by anonymous user.
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At first I wasn’t very optimistic about the bike , A blown CDI box , 2 blown Coils and a pick-up fabricated from a Suzuki made the bike a doggy buy, I know... | ||
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I got the bike of a local paper in Feb. 2005 and thought to myself, WOW what a great idea, cut down on fuel and half the time sitting in traffic (45min one way). When I looked at the bike before I bought it, the owner said that the roughness of the idling was due to the bike being cold, and I could not really drive the bike fast as we were on a dirt road on a farm. After replacing the timing chain, the back wheel and doing a major crevice on the bike it still left me 3 times beside the road about 50KM from home. That was when the bike shop told me that the pick-up was from a 550cc Suzuki that was modified with a power grinder and the pick-up itself was made from a flat washer braised to a piece of flat bar. After that was replaced with the correct back plate and pick-up, some how the bike shop blew both of the coils and we had to replace those too. They also blew the fuse box and my front light. I managed to strip the Speedo gears testing the bike, so I had to replace that. Now I don’t have a rev counter. My cut out switch also doesn’t work now. I replaced the muffler with a Cowley and that is working well. I got the bike back in the second week in Dec 2005. It has 560Km on the dial now and I find that it gives me about 11 Km per litre of fuel. I think it could do with one more gear as the bike runs ´rough´ in fith. Does it feel like that so anyone else¿ The bike feels very “wobbly” on speed like the tyres are flat or something like that and I don’t know here to look for the fault. Any ideas¿ I would like to post a picture of the bike , but I don’t know how to do that. |
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