My attempt at a rigid bobber XJ

Thanks fellas, I have a few things I'm gonna change up, but not too drastic at the moment.

 

Man I'm loving this bike...

 

very nice indeed, i'm not sure he'll be able to ride it without training wheels though

 

Nice job, QH. I've been watching this one closely. Nice colors. I had been debating whether to paint the trees and fork legs black. Now I know what it will look like. Where'd the headlight come from?

 

Headlight came from ebay. I have a battery box made up for it but will end up changing it. This one looks okay, but my dad will get one made up better due to tools I lack. I hope to get some good pics of it up soon.

 

NICE!!
I have that same forward control kit and it seems to take a lot of presure for my rear brakes to work. Did you nitice that too? I'm thinking of ordering another brake lever and making it longer for more leverage.

 

Yeah my rear brake takes a lot of effort as well. I think I'm going to change a couple things on the stock lever that I cut down for the control to tie into.

I'll be playing with the jetting as I was hoping to get away with stock jetting with the pods and open header, not the case. Seems to be lean idle through mid range, where I'm always at. Up top it pulls strong, but I didn't build this bike to stay up in the R's....

 

I'm going to find another stock brake lever cut it off about 6" from the pivot point and clamp my linkage to it so I can move it in or out to get the pedal feel I want. When I figure it out I'll sent you a PM.

I have pods and a 4into1 exhaust but I mounted it complete (you can see pics at "check out my custom xj650 j maxim" in the mods forums) I did a stage 3 jet kit from dyno jet and had to move the supplied needle clip down one position from what they suggest. I also went out about 2 3/4 turns on the mixture circut (they suggest 2 1/2)

 

Wow. That is fkn killer. Love it.

 

Thanks for the suggestion lowlife

eflat - thanks for the compliments. She saw her first bike night tonight and got a lot of looks.

 

That's a lovely bike chap. You've done a great job.

 

Quarter Horse where did you get the forward controls from?

 

TC Bros. Choppers

 

Had a little time so I thought I'd snag some better pics of the bike. I think I may end up selling it here before too long, as soon as I get some kinks worked out and cleaned up.

 

class

 

I really like this shot, like plumber said class.

 

that is one hell of a bike.. the wife and i just bought a 85 xj700x last week for a starter bike. is it possible to do the same thing on mine as you did to yours.. being that mine is lquid cooled vs air cooled

 

Thanks fellas

iron9cross - I wouldn't see why not, just a little different variant on a few things.

 

i've seen so many wrapped or painted pipes its refreshing to see a bit of clean stainless

 

QH. Nice bike man. Im about done with my xj 550 and just want to say thanks for the inspiration dude. Question on your speedometer, did you know you speedo ratio before you bought that from mikes xs, if so how do you know whats your speedometer ratio. I want to get a new speedometer but don't know where to start. Thanks man!

 

Most jap bikes are the same, so any speedo from a jap bike SHOULD work or be close enough. Hope that helps Sal

I really appreciate the kind words fellas. It makes me feel like I did it right, and right on the cheap!

I'm going to be doing an XS here before too long. My budget is to get it done for under $4000.00 instead of less than $1500.00 like I did the XJ. I'll keep ya'all posted.

 

Hey
just curious how many miles have you put on the bike since you finished it and are there any issues with the driveshaft being rigid and no flex
cheers

 

QH, I see you ran your tail lights and signals under the same filament and use a 12v diode to get that done. Is there any way you can explain that process to me or maybe some type of diagram on how you got that done?

 

amazing build man..... i wish you many sunny days and no police!

 

knucboy - 360 miles and no issues with the drive shaft.

sal79 - The diode keeps power from backfeeding. So you power the high filliments via the brake switch and the turn signal switch but put the diode in between where they're wired in so when you hit your turn signal they don't both light up. You'll obviously need to do it to both sides.

Thanks for the kind words fellas, so far no cops, but the carbs are comming off again for some tweaking.

 

congrat is a nice sick bike.. i just wonder the engine u just painted and how what prep did u used.. and the bolt kit where did u get it from
thxz in advance

 

I used low gloss engine paint and prepped with brake clean, letting dry, and painting. Next time after I let the brake clean dry I'll use Prepsol and go over it all. The bolt kit was a generic one on Ebay that I had to add to from getting fasteners from Fastenal.

Thanks for the compliments.

 

Dude, you're making me want to change the headlight on mine, BIGTIME!

 

Ha thanks, it's a like it or love it deal. Most people I talk to like it, a few don't. That's the nice thing about doing your own thing, trying something different.

 

Thanks for some of the advice on the speedo and questions I asked you in the past. I finally got finished with mine.

 

carb jetting

hey i was wondering what kind of jetting have you uses on your bike when you put 4 littles air filters instead of the air box thanks marc

 

this thing is pretty bad ass... really dig the rear fender,strut ,sissy bar deal. the headlight is looking pretty sweet... excuse me for not reading 10 pages or so, but what did you do with all the wiring from original head light bucket. its not in that leather bag im seein is it?

 

He rewired it and removed anything that isn't needed to make it go. There's a link to the wiring diagram in the thread or do a forum search for minimal wiring diagram.

 

Man, that is one sweet looking ride! Great job. It's very inspiring!

 

sick bike man! i put this in my "to read" list a while ago nd just got around to reading through the whole thing. great job!! hella clean!