Yamaha 650 Flat Tracker

For sale is a 1977 yamaha xs 650 street legal flat tracker this bike has a freshly rebuilt motor with every component in great working condition.

Yamaha 650 flat tracker.

1900 miles since built sorted and shaken. This was not a cheapo and flip build this was a full build from the ground up not a slap on a bunch of parts and paint. Companies like omar s in concord calif can supply period and reproduction flat tracker goodies while shops like mike s xs in brooksville fla carry an extensive inventory of yamaha xs parts. Too many details to list all.

Yamaha xs650 flat tracker drogo michie wanted a bike for the streets of london and chose a stock 1978 yamaha xs650 as his starting point. The bike is a real head turner it is styled and trimmed exactly as it would have been on the race track. The honda rs750 was by far the most successful japanese flat tracker of all time winning plenty of ama hardware in the mid 80s but a decade earlier yamaha had its own success story with the xs650 thanks to king. When you order a dt tire the tire size must fit inside a stock 650 swing arm 5.

I reduced weight where possible with out reducing endurance reliability. Racers used indians brit bikes and even japanese bikes. It was the year of elvis famous live concert in hawaii nixon was inaugurated for his second term george foreman beat joe frazier to become the world heavy weight boxing champion skylab was launched the dea was founded and a young kenny roberts won the a m a. You can be sure to get attention on this bike wherever you ride.

Most guys don t care because a street tracker is a weekend bike. There s no reinventing the wheel here nor a huge amount of bespoke fabrication he says. 1979 yamaha xs650 19 front and rear wheels billet rear hub adapter lets you use a 19 wheel on the rear older flat track tires still have some practice life flanders bars engine is built up but needs cleaning and go through and re assembly. 80mm cylinders very rare 750 top end from back in the day.

Now know when you use a dirt track tire on the road it will go away between 3000 to 5000 miles because it s a soft compound. So many flat track fans have sought to replicate the iconic seventies xs specials that a whole industry has grown up for custom yamaha motorcycles and yamaha street tracker replicas. Kit includes cnc billet 6160 and 7075 aluminum components.