SILVER BULLET: A SHINY YAMAHA XS650 BY PURPOSE BUILT MOTO

[weeksy]

https://www.bikeexif.com/yamaha-xs650-p ... built-moto

[Count Steer]

I quite like that even if it looks a bit too blingy and would need the employment of full-time polishing staff.

[KungFooBob]

If only they'd made the chrome on the air filter run parallel with the frame tubes.

[Skub]

If only they'd made the chrome on the air filter run parallel with the frame tubes.

That's the first thing my eyes lit on.

Shore iz shiny tho...

[Monstyr]

Some really nice little touches like the slash cut air filter, but the cheap emgo exhaust cans are a bit lame and something in the same material as the pipes might have been nice, and it’s missing the usual road legal gubbins for number plates etc., so why bother installing an odd choice of headlight if you ignore the rest of what it needs to make it a usable thing.
I do hate the way the clutch line just passes across the engine rather than being routed in a more aesthetic way and the breathers just look unfinished the way they go to nowhere.
Other than those little gripes I do like this.

[Bob D.]

If only they'd made the chrome on the air filter run parallel with the frame tubes.

Agreed. This leaped out at me. Also, I don't get why the headlight is off-set. There's so much symmetry on the bike, to suddenly go against that with an off-centre light seems, well, wrong.