UK based owners

Are there many british XJ Owners and if so, is there a UK meet/rally at all?

 

Re: UK based owner s uk bikers

hi i ride my 81,650 max here in aberdeen scotland not seen another here in this part of scotland come to think about it. booked her in with a starter problem the garage owner asked if it was a scooter over the phone lol ended up buying a new battery runs sweet now

 

Hi I live in West London, restoring a 1982 yam xj 650 rj, would like to ride soon, what bike you got?

Daz

 

you lucky bastards......you can watch Top Gear on regular broadcast....I have to wait for it to be posted online and download each episode

 

I suppose we have Jeremy Clarkson ...but you have Chacal...who supplies everything you'll ever need to keep your xj running proper, supplies here are not that good.


Daz
1982 yam xj650 rj

 

Top Gear is on several times a week here in the U.S. on BBCAmerica (Directv carries it, don't know about others). New season just started two weeks ago. Best show on televison, but I have always thought British TV was far better than ours. Don't always agree with Jeremy, especially as he seems a bit of a Porsche detractor, but very entertaining.

 

First of all im not paying for anything but basic cable and i think that the episodes on BBCAmerica are delayed from the actual broadcast so i can actually download them before they air

 

Hi all just bought a xj750e-I 1985 needs some TLC but its a project after selling my K4 Bandit. I'm down in Kent.
Jon

 

Hi, I am in Suffolk. Post some pics so we can see what she looks like!

 

[quote="Dazsculpt]I suppose we have Jeremy Clarkson ...but you have Chacal...[/quote]

...who has a personality and is a great guy.

Mr. Clarkson, on the other hand, has discovered the joys of Insanity Sauce:

 

Hi all, well here's a pic of my tired looking new project. I dont know when it was last on the road but my brother did have it running last summer when he bought it but thats as close to the road as it has been for a few years i think.

 

She looks like she needs a little TLC but otherwise sound. The shape is very similar to my 600 and the seat, tank and clocks look identical. The 600 isn't a YICS engine though and is chain drive.

If you need a couple of UK websites (If Chacal can't help) I have got them, including a company who keep genuine Yamaha spares although they are not cheap!

I'm trying to get mine ready for MOT but these dark nights are sapping my enthusiasm!

Was this a UK model?

PS. I prefer "Captain slow" and his catch phrase of "Male chicken"!

 

hi i am in the east midlands in leicestershire have a xj750j go to a massive bike and car show every month at ashby folville near melton mowbray.have not seen a bike there same as mine,but the odd british xj model.

 

Know what you mean about the evening have surgested to my partner that i might wheel it into the conservatory... not the best thing i said that night lol.
It is a bit shabby but will give me somthing to do and I'm not in any rush at moment so will take my time to do it how i want.
Any assistance and guidance about parts greatfully received might save some web hunting.

Jon

 

Hi
I'm down in deepest darkest West London I have spare parts from my 650 shout out if you need stuff.

Daz

 

Hi

If you fanced travelln'

You could try the Ace Cafe they have a Yamaha meet, not sure how many XJ's go cos I ain't been yet?

Daz

 

Well ive decided Im gonna sell mine. Gonna have a brand new bike early in the new year, so if anyone wants a half decent 550, let me know, loads of new parts on her, recent carb rebuild, rejetted, noisy zorst, twin streetfighter headlights, goes well. £625 ono will buy it.

 

Mines in the garage. On Sunday my daughter came out "Mum says if you're fiddling with that bike she'll....."

Tonight wife said "When are you going to get it on the road?"

Try wemoto.com for pattern spares and Granby motors (0115 944 1346 ) for Genuine spares. They sorted me out monocross swing arm bushes for me.

 

Hello all
didnt know there was that many of us about,anyway need a frame xj650 82-83 not maxim or turbo anywhere in Kent must be cheap-ish though
thanks for listening
ferret

 

Hey thebat, that looks just like my 900 before I started work on it, there is hope, here is a pic how it looks so far. Wiz.
BTW how I miss my homeland,not. 8)

 

Wizard that looks great but I know mine will never be that clean, I enjoy working on cars n bikes always have.
I rebuilt a 1961 series 2 landrover in my early 20's, have had many "project cars" along the way including a MG B GT which is still in to many parts to think about but sadly its all tarped up sitting at my parents as i'm going through a divorce and dont have a garage or space to work on things like i would love. But that aside i will enjoy doing what i do as the circulmstances forced the sell of my K4 bandit just last week and the xj fell into my lap so to speak lol

 

hello another one in england.. uk.

living near the humber.. up by beverly hull area..

 

Im in Scotland near to Stirling.

Just passed on my 80" XJ650 to someone with more experiance who could get her back on the road.

Still running a 99" 600 Diversion (SECAII)

 

Kenbo are you on the yamaha diversion site.. I just sold my divy for a maxim...

 

Hey sausage fingers: you stole my laptop administrator name

 

Is anyone else comming to bmf in may the 14th?

if you are please please let me know ... send me a pm.. our MC will be there and will have a huge marquee and food and beer... drinks...

you can join us if you wish and have the most memorable time of your life I can promise that...

 

oh yeah and one more thing... on the 3rd of april.. our MC is hosting a big meet in Grimsby... there will be a live band.. BBQ etc..

Please attend... I strongly hope you all will...

you can see my bike in the making as well here is the address.. again pm me for more details but it starts at 10am.. and finishes about 6pm.. ish...


Unit 4 Holme Street
Grimsby
North East Lincolnshire
DN32 9AD

 

Hi - I just found this site and promptly joined. I have a 92 XJ900F in bits (had it since new). I'm near Forfar in Scotland. When I got the bike I bought the Yam workshop manual and a parts micrifiche so if anybody needs copies or scans of bits (not the whole thing!) respond here and I'll see what I can do.

 

Hi All another born again biker here,mines a 1992 XJ900F which getting a large amount of TLC at the moment,Sorn right now, MOT'd and roadworthy otherwise, im finding and replacing as i find,- lost fixings correct indicators that sort of stuff, the list is going down slowly when time and money allows.ps i have a yics tool if anyone needs one, sourced from America via e-bay, the old XJ really purrs now with balanced carbs and a new cam chain lol.

 

I've just bought a 1992 XJ600.Live in Fife,Scotland.

Bought it as a fixer upper,but didn't realise how bad it was! no spark (new TCi) swingarm siezed solid...snapped the small swingarm in half with my breaker bar,then the 12mm bolt that holds it in-had to grind off the remanants of the arm..then had to press out the swingarm arms, took 4.5 tons to do that! : 8O new forkseals,welded the T Bag Motad,broke 2 exhaust studs...rebuilt calipers,full service..and its still a tatty old XJ that I haven't ridden-hope its worth it! A bit of a change from my usual BMW's!

Waiting on front wheel bearings and rear linkage/shock to be delivered then its MOT time!

Anyone have a decent blue fairing and bellypan?

 

hi all u.k. xj bikers. had my 81'650 for three and a half years now still turns heads puts a lot of the new bikes to shame lol aberdeen scotland

 

I had a silver Xj650 new in 1982, went all over on it and nobody ever knew what it was.Really quiet until you wound it back, then that turbine like howl,fantastic !. I couldnt find one around (one on ebay at the moment), so i got the next best thing My 1992 Xj900F which rolls back the years with that XJ whine.

 

I'm Rick, been on this forum since last year. Found it by accident when cruising the WWW looking for info on fixing my XJ700 Maxim X.

I'm a full patch member of the Van Dieman MCC side patch club (www.vandiemanmcc.com) in Weston-super-Mare, Somerset. My forum name 'Babylon' is my nickname in the club & the name I usually go by. If someone calls me Rick I have to stop a second to realise they are talking to me! LOL

Here's me & my bike.



Bought the Maxim X for just under £600 off fleaBay & other than cracked coils, change of tyres & a carb problem which (with help from the forum) I now have pretty well sorted hasn't done too badly for me!
My Maxim beats the crap out of my mate's Zephyr 750 ... which amuses me immensely!

 

Hi
Bob here....1999 xj600n diversion. Born again biker, tho just passed my test 2 yrs ago.

Based in Dunfermline Fife

 

Hi all,

I'm From stockport near manchester..
Great website keep up good work..

 

Hi,

Have a Xj 750 j Maxim..just Mot'd and on the road this week...great bike ...at my local meet in North Wales no one had any idea what it was (de badged bar Yam logos)... 8)

 

Hi guys
Im based in the N.E England I have just started driving my xj 650 around the roads again with the grandson on the back, one ride and he has been bitten by the bug, and like us all when we got the bug would be on the bike 24/7, as a lot of you boys say the bike gets plenty of attention when we are out, I still want a couple of bit that I need to replace but it will come in time nice tomeet you all

 

Hi all, Nobby here in Plymouth. Riding an '82 650 Maxim along with 4 other Japanese classics. Don't often visit the site as I'm not often in the UK.

 

I'm in Devon with an 89 XJ900F

Currently spending most of my time replacing parts that are breaking down on me though... anyone know where to get a pair of replacement oil cooler lines?

J

 

hi i live in dorset,i got the missis a maxim x,last of the maxims,,,she had 1 before,ive had a few,and a few secas,nice to hear from people,from uk

 

there seems to be a few xj,s around the country but getting parts is like drawing teeth there are plenty of bits in the states and in europe but the cost of getting them is a bit over the top The postal costs are a bit off to say the least, but we have to fight on eh next time I go to Holland or germany I will have my laptop with me ( If I can hide it from the wife)
cheers lads

 

Hi guys. I'm living in Stoke-on-Trent, UK. I got my XJ 550 last week off of eBay. She's clean enough, with 12 months ticket. But she needs a few buckets of TLC throwing over her. A proper strip down is planned for the winter, but for now I plan to enjoy her through the summer sunshine - when it comes back!!

 

There's me in Newcastle. Got an '81 550 but it seems to be the only one around. It's next stop would have been the breakers, (where all the others probably went) but a small fortune later and I ride it every day.
Only just found this site. Very useful indeed. Thanks.
Phil.

 

Just read a bit more of all that. When I bought the xj , I stupidly thought spares would be everywhere. But no, they're not. It is easier to find used parts for old British bikes and the attention the bike gets worries me because it indicates just how rare they are. Absolutely dreading the engine overhaul. 42 000 miles on the clock and it's never been apart. Bike cost £300; just the top end is going to be twice that.

 

Based in Weston Super Mare, so am familiar with the Van Diemans.

Just picked up a 400/4 Jap import from E-Bay.

Seems like a nice bike, but not at all keen on the silly handle bars! Need to get rid of the bars from the shopping bike and fit some nice straight bars. 8O

 

Hi again uk lot, I have found that the xj 650 has a lot of fans in holland and germany so you can get a load of spares from there and the post is not that bad, go onto ebay and look in the german section, hope to see some of you about on my travels :lol:

 

Hi im 14 I and my dad own a 1983 XJ750 Seca and a 1981 XJ750 RAT custom. I was disappointed when I looked at this thread and no one had posted in ages! Would like to see some more activity and some info on other fellow UK XJ owners. Just some pics of the XJs.

CLEAN ONE

RAT
Thanks Al

 

Hi all I'm a UK XJ bike owner from Stevenage in Herts, I'm currently restoring a XJ 750 A 1981 which I used to ride a while back before getting the 900 diversion, see the progress here:-
http://sandpit.no-ip.com/xj750

Here she is a few years ago

 

Hi guys....xj owner from norwich.

Got a build thread going for my pre diversion cafe fighter.
http://www.xjbikes.com/Forums/viewtopic/t=30767.html

this is the old girl as purchased.



And this is as she currently stands with mods well under way.


Hopefull that things go well so i can get back on the road soon. Be good to meet up with some of you guys for a ride out.

 

Looking good guys! Nice to see some fellow active UK XJ owners, bandit did you get those chrome callipers of eBay? Keep us well posted maybe look at creating a thread in the main forum matie69? Just one last thing is careful buying parts from other countries the customs fees are expensive!!