Comments on: Frankenbob

By: nobody

nobody — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 01:02:53 +0000

Love the idea, but its ugly as hell….sorry. Having done a rephased xs myself, I am really skeptical on the single carb deal, I dont see that working. Oil flow issues aside, I’d Love to see a video of it running and revving up. I also have an ignition from Mark out of Cali. I love the ignition and its SUPER engineered, I would recommend his ignition to anyone doing an xs and wanting super tunability….sorry, made up word. Please post a video soon. Later.

By: Americanbarber82

Americanbarber82 — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 04:56:54 +0000

That poor XS!

By: Ted

Ted — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 02:44:44 +0000

In reply to Andy. email@xs650chopper(dot)com

By: Andy

Andy — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:00:30 +0000

I tried to send in more pics but it didnt work, is there an email adderss I can send to?

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:05:04 +0000

Looks awesome, yeah, ok, the tank… I’ll leave it alone, you like it…

do you have any in progress pics? I’d love to see some. Also, any troubles spinning the heads? I’m interested in doing one, I’ve tried doing an XS project, but have sold all four before I even started…

By: Andy

Andy — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:43:34 +0000

I didnt think anyone would like the seat, but it sure is comfy.
The ignition is from Mark Whitebrook.
The crank pin came from my good friend from down under Terry Gliddon [toota@internode.on.net].
The trick on turning the head around is cutting and flipping the rocker arms to the oposite cam lobe. I built a jig to keep them strait.
Theres also some oil supply and return problems to deal with.
I’ll try again to get some detailed pictures up.
I also had to some welding on the head mateing sufface to get the head gasket to seal.

By: Billybobba

Billybobba — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 09:58:07 +0000

Mate get a bit of tilt on that tank for F#%ks sake!!!!

By: bob rodriguez

bob rodriguez — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 02:09:39 +0000

this bike rocks———really unique and would love to build one myself , would appreciate any further information .

By: skr00zloose

skr00zloose — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 01:58:21 +0000

not a fan of the looks, but the motor interests me. Couple questions though:

1- that looks like a PAMCO ignition, how did you get it to run with a rephase, since it’s only got a single trigger?

2- what did it take to spin the head like that? Kinda makes me want to go downstairs and drop a set of jugs and a head (backwards) on one of my empty cases, just to see. obviously you didn’t spin the jugs (tensioner is still at the back). Was it just a matter of re-dowling the head/jugs? it CAN’T be that simple, lol

3- how’d you get that ( I think) gsxr swinger in there? I tried it once but gave up and used another arm b/c the pivot was way too wide. Looks like you modded the back half of the frame to fit. got any close up pics?

4- where’d you get a crankpin to do a 90 degree rephase?

again, not my style, but I can appreciate the work it probably took to make it all function, and my hats off to ya.

By: Rob

Rob — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:13:16 +0000

Need more pics and tech notes on this one.

By: JesC

JesC — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 21:48:53 +0000

Sick motor and swing arm!!! I have never seen a xs650 motor like that, very cool..

By: Hesh

Hesh — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:28:48 +0000

So cool yet so ?????

By: k69

k69 — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:46:46 +0000

Bourget forward controls???

By: Blackwidow

Blackwidow — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 12:12:39 +0000

How did you do that motor work it’s really cool

By: JET36

JET36 — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 19:45:45 +0000

You named it right. Nice motor work. Lose that seat and tilt that tank!

By: brian

brian — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:07:26 +0000

fugly! cool motor work though.

By: Spun

Spun — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 02:32:18 +0000

I wonder how that set up would perform in wet weather? Very cool though. I’t solves alot of the single carb mod issues on the xs.

By: Ted

Ted — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:54:07 +0000

I tried to get more info on this frankenbob but had no luck. With a different seat and tank on this thing you’d have a super gnarly looking street tracker. I’ve seen triumphs with backwards headers but this is the first time I’ve seen a xs650 set up like this. Crazy stuff!! Thanks for sending in the pictures Andy.