Hello from Florida!
Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2016 3:19 pm
Hello populace of XJ Rider!
Long time lurker, first time poster here. I ride a 1997 XJ600 which I purchased back in March of 2016 as my first foray into the two-wheeled life. I bought her with 20k Miles, what used to be Mikuni carbs and some road rash all wrapped up in a visual aesthetic that I can only imagine the PO would've called "DOPE" :prob: The past 9 months have consisted of me learning how to ride and reverse engineering the PO's questionable design choices all the while catching up on a solid decade of skipped maintenance (Special thanks to this lovely forum for info).I've replaced the majority of her fuel and vacuum lines, fuel pump, petcock, regulator rectifier, chain and sprockets and lastly cleaned her carbs in an attempt to bring her back to her early 00's glory days.
I live and ride around central Florida whose tropical climate and scorching temperatures challenge my XJ's air-cooled constitution everyday. Even against these odds, my XJ has trustily served as my daily driver for 4k miles with a spark of life and voracious tenacity that is not seen by many.
On the name: During a group ride a friend referred to my XJ as Putt-Putt alluding to my rich running carbs and the crackly exhaust note they produced, the name stuck and she has been Putt-Putt ever since.
Here is Putt-Putt: featuring her soon to be undone visual 'mods'
Long time lurker, first time poster here. I ride a 1997 XJ600 which I purchased back in March of 2016 as my first foray into the two-wheeled life. I bought her with 20k Miles, what used to be Mikuni carbs and some road rash all wrapped up in a visual aesthetic that I can only imagine the PO would've called "DOPE" :prob: The past 9 months have consisted of me learning how to ride and reverse engineering the PO's questionable design choices all the while catching up on a solid decade of skipped maintenance (Special thanks to this lovely forum for info).I've replaced the majority of her fuel and vacuum lines, fuel pump, petcock, regulator rectifier, chain and sprockets and lastly cleaned her carbs in an attempt to bring her back to her early 00's glory days.
I live and ride around central Florida whose tropical climate and scorching temperatures challenge my XJ's air-cooled constitution everyday. Even against these odds, my XJ has trustily served as my daily driver for 4k miles with a spark of life and voracious tenacity that is not seen by many.
On the name: During a group ride a friend referred to my XJ as Putt-Putt alluding to my rich running carbs and the crackly exhaust note they produced, the name stuck and she has been Putt-Putt ever since.
Here is Putt-Putt: featuring her soon to be undone visual 'mods'