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XS650 Heritage Special

Posted 07-19-2009 at 06:35 PM by Gamuru
A customer stopped by the store where I work on his bike. He was riding a Yamaha XS650. Unfortunately, I didn't catch the year, but I'm thinking somewhere around 1980. When I finally got a chance to grab my camera for some pictures, the owner had wandered off to one of the other shops in the shopping center. I went ahead and snapped a couple quick photos of this fine example of Yamaha engineering.


I'm showing you this bike in preperation for an upcoming post on another customer's bike. It's also an XS650, but, oh so much different!

Stay tuned...

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    beansbaxter's Avatar
    That's a cool bike - how much does it weigh?
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    Posted 07-20-2009 at 03:42 AM by beansbaxter beansbaxter is offline
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    Gamuru's Avatar
    I'm not really sure, but Wikipedia has it listed at 450 pounds.
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    Posted 07-20-2009 at 07:05 AM by Gamuru Gamuru is offline
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    sschering's Avatar
    Damn it's still has the lower side covers.. Those things are rare and almost always missing..

    Those only came on 82-83 XS-650S models
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    Posted 07-20-2009 at 03:01 PM by sschering sschering is offline
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    I used to sell them, couldnt hardly give one away. But by then Yamaha had a great selection of inline 4s and the vibrating twin was dead,,, I wish I had one!
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    Posted 07-21-2009 at 09:52 PM by cool1442 cool1442 is offline
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    dragracer1951's Avatar
    The Heritage 650 came after the midnight special and special II
    The 650 Triumph should have built.
    Except the Yamaha was a hunnert pounds heavier....
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    Posted 07-22-2009 at 10:06 AM by dragracer1951 dragracer1951 is offline
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    jdpesz's Avatar
    http://www.yamaha-motor.com/sport/ep...ial_small.aspx
    According to Yamaha, the XS650 twins were introduced in 1978. They didn't say when the Heritage special came out.
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    Posted 07-22-2009 at 04:29 PM by jdpesz jdpesz is offline
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    Quote:
    Originally Posted by jdpesz View Comment
    http://www.yamaha-motor.com/sport/ep...ial_small.aspx
    According to Yamaha, the XS650 twins were introduced in 1978. They didn't say when the Heritage special came out.

    That was the first year of the XS650 Special. The XS650 sans the "Special" connotation came out way before that...circa 1968 I believe.
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    Posted 07-28-2009 at 12:50 PM by kippen kippen is offline
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    Quote:
    Originally Posted by kippen View Comment
    That was the first year of the XS650 Special. The XS650 sans the "Special" connotation came out way before that...circa 1968 I believe.
    This one, perhaps?
    http://www.yamaha-motor.com/sport/ep...s-1_small.aspx

    Oh, you can have your blog back now, Don.
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    Posted 07-28-2009 at 08:59 PM by jdpesz jdpesz is offline
 

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