Building another XC

I needed a 85 something, so why not a 500.
I had a 85 roller XC (400) and been collecting/hoarding parts for ever.
So going all out on another bike, full rebuild and resto.
Even have NOS plastic stuff for it.
I bought cases, cylinder and pipe, i had the crank. Doing it for a fall break in ride on the mountains.

I have super nice wheels for it.
First off it will look bone stock, well just the pipe is aftermarket.


View: https://youtu.be/SWoMDYiyifU

15 tooth front.....that thing will have some legs!

You've been holding out on us. Looking like a fine big bore toy.

No not really, remember i was saying...
I swapped the primary drive to a 86 500 CR and thats slows the gears down. So big front and drop the rear some on the sprockets to achieve 90ish mph for single track

Lots of great stuff going on with these bikes over on FB
Just not over here oldbikedude

Cool bike from the left kicker club pics.
1 of very few...

Oops, I'd forgotten that you changed the primary drive ratio!

Guess I'm gonna have to join up and check it out. Thanks

Its over 1100 members
There is post about getting Clark tanks to make some 85/86 tanks.
A min order of 100 for each style, CR and XC.
Looks to be tons of interested members so far in the group.
So nice to have so many enthusiast for a small era of bikes.

Steve

Yup. I'm there. Still learning...... The fb thing kinda feels unnatural. I'll figure it out....eventually.

Just following Steve's on-going projects & adventures make it worth the while!

Right on, did you find the liquid cooled left kicker only club?

Lol motorick

Epic pic from June, 400 and 430

Yup, I'm in there

Never caught your real name before, what is it if you dont mind?

Philip Brown, don't wear it out...lol

im glad you put this up on hete Steve as i find it so much better than fb for actually looking at stuff. for some reason, i continually get interrupted on fb with all sorts of "white noise" ...Fb is like the main room notice board and cafe husk is the library where you can dig right in...

Must be a ripper bloke with a surname like that!

Agreed JC, Facebook has it's uses but for a digest of information this is awesome. Even if the search function doesn't always work as expected, the info is here, looking up old info on FB can be a chore.
Tony.

I'm not on FB , but would be interested by a 85/86 Clark tanks like some guys
here I suppose.
Are you personnaly in touch with Clark ?