my XJ600 project

My inspiration have all ways loved this bike built by Norman Hyde



having bought the XJ to do into a street fighter I changed my mind and using the above bike as inspiration I chose cafe racer style instead this is what Ive done so far




long way to go
Steve

Got my mig welder back from a relative yesterday after lending it to him will now have to spend today repairing it. Take a tip never lend out your tools or equipment so thought i was working on sub frame today how wrong was i

Welcome Pud, know what you mean mate, I recently helped my 25 yo son to move house, part of which was clearing out his shed, he handed me a box of 'rubbish' which contained my electric drill (burnt out motor) 2 of my wood chisels (edges chipped and burred) and countless hand tools/sockets/spanners etc. which were rusted to fek because his shed leaked like a sieve and they had been sitting in 2-3inches of water in a plastic storage box. I didn't even know he'd borrowed half the kit!

Now I like that mate

It's funny but a local dealer has an XJ600 (unfaired Diversion), and I did wonder how it would lend itself
to being CR'd
Now I know.
Best of luck and keep us posted

Not done anything on the bike for a week concentrating on my sons bike for when he is 17
in a couple of months.
Steve (Pud)

quick update sons bike ready for powder coating finally got mig welder sorted only taken me 3 days off and on never never lend kit to people any way hope to have some photos of subframe soon

right finally got some time to work on my bike left the sub frame till the weekend so started striping engine haven't bothered with any photos as IED has already covered removing a cylinder head and servicing it so unless any body wants a how to on a chain driven DOHC head take this as read good news is the top end is in great shape just needs a flamin good clean and replacing all the studs and seals as matter of course.

Didn't get sub frame done (now there's a surprise) had to work Sat then family BBQ Sunday went to street rod nationals in Ipswich with son, Mon had to do exhaust on car now back to work will try to do some this week or die in the attempt

totaly pissed off so I stuck the bike under the bench not happy with style or over all look just not happy

Pud, Take a step back, Have a brew and a good nights kip. Leave it a few days and come back to it.

A break is as good as a rest. I have lost hand fulls of hair over my build.

These things dont happen over a weekend.

Hope you drag your project back out and continue.

pud, come on man don't let the hard work so far go to waste.

What happened to this project?

Hi
The XJ is sitting under my bench looking very sorry for its self wasnt happy with over all look so thought I d leave it a bit then come back to it

That's a shame mate seemed like it was going well i want to do this to my bandit where did u get the away unit from?

not sure what you mean by away unit but the seat unit is a TZ500 replica bought of ebay and the bars are from a modern Triumph also from ebay also dont worry I will be returning back to her