{"id":19861,"date":"2018-05-02T14:15:41","date_gmt":"2018-05-02T19:15:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/?p=19861"},"modified":"2018-05-02T14:18:56","modified_gmt":"2018-05-02T19:18:56","slug":"xt-boiz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/2018\/05\/xt-boiz\/","title":{"rendered":"XT BOIZ"},"content":{"rendered":"
I’ve been sweating XT500’s for a few years now.\u00a0 Something about a bike that can go anywhere, do anything, and not look like a dadbike\u00a0(no offense to the DadZ1000 crew, Harley Cosplayers, and the new Bumble BMW crew) just struck a cord with me.\u00a0 \u00a0When my boy Cooney sent me a bike that was 20 minutes away, I had to go take a look.\u00a0 After haggling with the dude for a little bit, followed by about 1 minute of awkward silence when I made my offer, I think I got a great deal.\u00a0 He probably ended up putting what I bought the bike for into the front end.<\/p>\n
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The good<\/p>\n
– No rust<\/p>\n
– all of the original electronics are intact including the battery, it all works.<\/p>\n
– has stock tool box<\/p>\n
– The front end is from a ninja 250, with brembo master cylinder, brembo caliper, and an EBC\u00a0floating rotor\u00a0.\u00a0 Works super good<\/p>\n
– tank has 2 small dents.\u00a0 Came up good with a custom Ed Yak Wax\u2122<\/p>\n
– Got the stock front end with the bike, its all in good shape<\/p>\n
– Got a spare tank<\/p>\n
– Came with a rear rack and a set of luggage (also with racks).\u00a0 Very old man, not really that nice but hey, they were free.<\/p>\n
– Had title<\/p>\n
– Does wheelies<\/p>\n
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The Bad<\/p>\n
– has an air leak, I think its the exhaust.<\/p>\n
– They cut the original exhaust off and booger welded a pipe extension on with a muffler, it sucks.\u00a0 Going to need a new one.<\/p>\n
– The exhaust was super loose and caused the bottom mounting bracket on the frame to ovalize.\u00a0 Currently have random junk stuffed in there to keep it tight.\u00a0 Not sure how to fix that just yet<\/p>\n
– The smaller front wheel and shorter forks fucked up the rake.\u00a0 Bike is a little dart-y at speed<\/p>\n
– Bike is very much set up for on road riding, not much off road.<\/p>\n
– seat needs some new foam<\/p>\n
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