'82 maxim 650 budget bike

tradded a ps3 for this. ps3 cost me roughly $50.


iv had it for about 3 months now and put about another $135 into it if you count tax , title, and licensing and paint.








still have along way to go, new headlight (gunna use a old police car spotlight, hopefully) , bars, strip the gauges off , finish the tank paint, grind all the unnecessary mounts and brackets off , and the hand clutch jokey shift......

figured id stick it up here and see what people think
i dont think i can get much more budget then this
thanks for lookin.

 

Nice!!

 

Looks good. That's what a budget bike is all about.

 

thanks.

those dam dirt bike handlebars annoy me tho
gotta fix that soon lol

 

That's real low in the rear. Did you just cut the springs off the stock shocks?

 

nah
i disassembled the shocks and welded'em then cut the springs down and welded a ring to one end to hold it flat then welded the cap back on. i think they look good. kill the kidneys at 60 or so lmao



so far everything on the bike is what was on it when i got it. i just hacked it up and made it my own

 

Very cool lookin, so the shocks no longer absorb shock? You welded them solid? I like the look better than struts that for sure. I am a shock kinda guy

 

yea there solid
i think it looks way better then just the solid struts myself.
flipped the bars today


needs some apes but this'll do till i get some. i couldnt stand the way the bars looked before.

definitely needs a bath tho....

 

so i got bored lastnight and hacked up the guage cluster.....


its just the speedo side now with the odometer twister thingy cut off and i covered the odometer up with a piece of black plastic.

also hid most of the wiring only wires left going into the head light are for the front brake light and the headlight. i tucked em up under the tank after re-rapping them fit under there almost perfect lol. is there gunna be a issue wiring the light direct without the high/low beam switch? i got it wired to low beams right now. ill take some better pics soon as this rain quits.

 

Yah those welded up shocks def. look a lot better than struts!
Cool looking bike for an awesome deal. Lucky bastard!

 

new bars, new throttle, and i got the jokey shift done.

 

Dude,
Where did you get a PS3 for $50?!

 

bitchin' ride man

 

i bought a xbox 360 for 50$ and put it on craigslist to trade for a ps3 . then when the ps3 got old ran a ad sayin i had a ps3 and wanted a 82 xj. i trade stuff all the time, specially game consoles.

the jokey shift is a pain when stopping, mainly cuz when i put my feet down the factory pegs jam into my ankles. need a shorter bolt so i can get rid of em. and get the rear break controls hooked up. other then that, its a pretty comfortable ride now with the new shift and bar . plus when u roll up next to someone at 65 on the highway and drop it down a gear and crack it it looks badass hahahaha.

 

where did you get that clutch lever and perch, also, how did you hack up the throttle cable and the clutch cable? thanks

 

throttle cable i had to cut about a half inch off the housing of the cable at the carb end and shave down where the cable hooks inside the throttle assemby.
as for the clutch lever and stuff its all factory yamaha stuff it came with. the clutch cable i havent cut down but once my new lever gets here next friday ill shorten it then make a jig and put a new end on the cable. cant be much difrent then making fishin weights. this is prolly what ill do or near to it. http://xjbikes.com/Forums/viewtopic/t=26182.html

 

Sounds like you knew what you wanted and went there! Liked what you did with the seat until the last pic (why the bungee cord?). Is it the stock seat just cut down? Could you explain some (REALLY lacking in imagination )...

skillet

 

stock seat i cut down and shaped the foam.i just cut the back foot or so of the seat off then shaved down the foam and repulled it.i liked the lines off the seat the way they came down from the tank then swooped back up into the fender. the bungie cord is just there till i weld the seat brackets to the frame. when ya shift it slides back about 1/2 inch and it annoyed me so its just a temp bungie.

still cant find a suitable place to mount the ignition......

 

i dunno how to do video links lol but if you click the pic it goes to the video or should.

 

What throttle tube/housing are you using at the handlebars?

 

not sure what ya mean, but the throttle is a 20$ cheapo for a harley i ordered from the local cycle shop. and the handle bars are just a thick straight pipe i found , i made a small shim to make the throttle mount tight to the bars tho, it was only a hair difrence between the bars and the throttle . plan to get some tube stock and weld up a better set soon. $$$ scarce around here tho lol .

wheres a good place to mount the ignition?
maybe ill just hack that off too................lol

 

My ignition right now is just a wire that I can touch to the frame to complete the circuit. I need to look in to how to "fix" that. I've actually thought about hooking up my ignition to something like a telegraph receiver, so I could press down on it to start my bike and then as soon as I let go a spring keep the "hot" lead off the ground. Sort of like how it is in this pic http://www.textually.org/textually/arch ... graph1.jpg , and mounting that contraptio hidden to the underside of the frame.


Can I get a close up pic of the throttle then? I want to get an idea of what you did.

 

i wish i could get my bike to idle down that low without stalling

 

@ mestnii ill take some pics when it stops raining.

@ schooter actually it idles lower then that usually, i had to turn the idle up a little after i disconnected the chock cable or it wont start . fires then just cranks till u chock it. its at like 650-700rpm now i think
once it warms up i can turn the idle down to about 500 or so before it starts to stall. i could be off tho, been awhile since i had a tach on'er.

i think it says somewhere on the bike that factory idle is 1700rpm lol

 

factory is 1100

 

almost positive the inside of the right side cover says 1700rpm but i painted over it
when i got it it idled at 1600rpm

but the speedos about 20mph slow so im sure the tach wasnt dead on..

 

Just as a side note, I remember it being discussed that even though your bike can idle that low it's bad to do so as the oil doesn't circulate well and something doesn't get lubricated properly. At least that's the excuse I use when my idle runs high But really though, low idles are bad, too right?

 

id guess to low isnt too good since when she idles to low i hear a slight tink . but its a 50$ bike and low is its attitude

dosnt spend to much time at a low idle anyhow. just sounds cooler when u stop and the idle drops to just barely alive.

 

quite frankly, i'd be proud to have an idle that low, because it has to be properly synched and tuned to be able to do so and stay running

 

yea other then the bike being layed down not to long before i got it its actualy in great shape and runs like a top. i think it actualy just fell over. air box had a half quart of oil in it when i pulled it off.

i am very proud of my bike. its been good to me since day one

 

I've been trying to find a better place to mount the ignition too. Thinking about just hiding a 2-position switch under the tank somewhere.

 

i hacked it off and used the original on/off switch from the old throttle and remounted behind the fram rail on the side. cant even see it. and sinc all u have to do to hotwire these things is twist 3 wires its just as safe lmao

has anyone removed the chock assembly from the bars? i need to make a lever for the chock on the carb not sure how i wanna go about it .

 

got bored the othere night and made a new tail light







its one of the turn signals, i chopped out the center and "grafted" lol a red lense into it. its still ruff .


and these are for mestnii, sorry there crappy my cell takes crap picks and i shack alot lol but if you need to see more lemme know.

 

Awesome, thanks for the close up. That looks like an interesting way to rig the throttle tube and the cable. I can't quite tell what that metal clamp is though, did you get it at a hardware store somewhere?

 

no clamps, the chrome part is the throttle. and the tubing on the cable was bent that way for the old bars id imagin, had dirt bike bars on it when i got it, not sure wtf the kid was thinkin lmao. in the last pic u can see the edge of the shim i had to use to get the throttle to fit.

new clutch lever comes in tomorrow and i just capped the frame ends up today came out nice i think. the closer i get to it being the way i want the more i wanna strip it down to bones and rebuild it lol
started polishing the motor today to F**kers gunna shine

 

I bought a dirtbike throttle (yz400) for .99 and drilled a hole in it and it works fine, i'm gonna have to use a little jb weld to keep the plastic tube in there

 

i couldnt find a parts bike of any kinda for 20$ i tryed and that throttle was the plainest and the cheapest i could find . id rather make my own. run the cable inside the bars

 

*jawdrop* Well done, man!

The black clutch and brake levers, where do you suggest I find those?

Thanks!

 

i forget the company that makes the clutch lever,but the break was on it when i got it and is comming off soon, moving it to a foot controlled front break. ill look for the packaging for the clutch lever tho, might still have it. was like 11$ with tax

 

@ antiorder i cant find the packaging sorry. i think both the clutch lever and throttle were from drag specialties.. http://www.dragspecialties.com/

 

got a old fire extinguisher, 1967 i think.
might try to make a tank out of it....

 

IM not feeling that as a tank but to each is there own. I'd try a mini keg or something, but that jacks up the lines of ur bike badly.

 

nah, it would be cut and trenched to sit on the rail better, along with splitting the bracket down the center and welding a mounting plat to the frame, would sit roughly 3 -4 inches lower and forward about a inch or so. the pressure guage would make a nice spot to mount the tach or speedo. prolly a tach. i was just setting it up there and took a pic for S&G's.

 

can we get close ups of your shifter?

 

come on man.... I want to see some progress here

 

progress lmao. if i can ever get my hands on a welder they'll be lotsa progress. as it sits, till i get new bars i cant do much, need the bars to know where to put the shift and forward controls. and i need a welder to fix the frame once i hack it up lol. so once i get one its on.as for now i just tare around on it. been working on it in the ally way since i got it need to find a garage soon also. hate apartments.

ill take some pics of the shift soon as i got a chance.