1981 XJ550

Picked this little beauty up yesterday!
I dropped my VFR off with it's new owner in the morning so wasn't exactly joyous on the way to collect the XJ. Imagine my delight when I arrived to find this! Nestled neatly between an immaculate 1150GS and a show standard 250LC
I wish I could say that I was responsible for it's gorgeous condition but all the credit must go to Fat&Fast of this parish who had taken this already lovely bike and made it nearly perfect. Cheers Phil, I'm chuffed to bits with it!
I'm itching for a dry sunny day now!!

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I don't remember them looking that good brand new.

Classic, got a 1981 XJ650 myself.

Mr K said:

I don't remember them looking that good brand new.

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There are some bikes that are flattered by photographs, this bike is the opposite, it looks much better in the flesh!

grown up lc

Usually, when I get a new (to me) bike I then have the pleasure of shopping for a few bits and pieces to bring it up to my standard .......... Not the case with this one, I'm sitting here twiddling my thumbs!!

I had one of them back then - mine was red, nice bike, sold it when I bought my first house. It wasn't as fast as the rival Kawasaki 550 but the Yam was prettier

That's lovely


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