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New Additions
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Super Horn Set |
Front Master Cylinder |
Volt Meter Assembly |
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FRONT MASTER
CYLINDER |
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Our new after market Front Master Cylinder comes in all black or black/gold. It has a built in front brake light switch and a rotating chrome wheel with numbered positions for various finger lengths. When used with steel braided brake lines the front brakes are nearly twice as powerful and controllable instead of on or off. It has a completely different feel. It's easy to install. Right hand mirror must be rethreaded with a 10mm 1.25 thread for the perch on the XS Eleven or replace the mirror you have with a right hand threaded one that all other type bikes have. Dies can be purchased at many tool stores or send us the mirror and we'll do it free with purchase of the Master Cylinder. Price is $215.00 with instructions how to install on the XS Eleven. Also Spade Connectors to adapt the brake switch wires to the new assembly are included. Steel brake lines are also available for the XS Eleven from us listed in the accessory area.
New Anti-Vibration Bar Ends and Gel Grips are available too seen here. For the XS Eleven they are altered by us with the right/throttle side having a 3/4 inch longer bolt and a spacer nut inside to let the throttle have the gripping expander farther into the bar end. This insures a free throttle spring back, even with cruise control devise. The set is $19.95 once we make these modifications.
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| This photo shows the main body of 1/8'th sheet aluminum in the bending machine after it has been cut out and now being shaped for one side of the bag holding system. |
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| The bag support shelf is seen here at the top and the angle bend toward the bike is being formed. |
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| Here all of the main components are cut out and shaped. Ready for furthe assembly amd bead blasting |
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| Design templates are seen in the upper left and support struts freshly cut out and drilled ate laid out on bench |
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| Side view of bag support back plate and shelf being formed. |
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| Bob holds the upper attachement plate next to the edge where it will be riveted via 1/8th aluminum angle to the side plate |
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| Here you can see how the two parts will fir together. |
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| Bob Jones rivets the angle to the side plate here first. |
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| Angle upright to hold the attachement area in place is seen here. |
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| The actual saddle bags are seen here with the bracket kit abd rear signal mount piece. Signals are displayed adjacent to the their holding bracket. Showing how the entire system goes together |
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| Here the brackets and support struts are laid out in the approximate way they attache to the bike. |
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| Here the hardware used to assemble the entire system is shown with it. |
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| Side view of the system, hardware and bags for each side assembly shown together. |
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| This is how the two main components look as they are made. Three turn signal brackets are also shown being made here. |
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| Bob holds a signal bracket after making it. |
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| A clear view of the signal bracket, which mounts to the license plate bracket on the rear of the motorcycle. The two small supports attache to this bracket also. |
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| Here the entire assembly is seen mounted in place on the SSR/2 proto type TYPE II. The under seat portion of the saddle bags is in place. The seat is then installed with the side zippers in their exact position, so that the bags can then be zipped to them and set on the shelf at the bottom. An additional sheetmetal piece is added to this unit to protect the bag from hot exhaust out of the muffler just below angled upward or it will melt the bag material. Each system must be altered where necessary depending on what exhaust system is used. |
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| Bob zips the bag onto its holding upper part. |
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| Here the bag is seen installed in place. LED Marker lights are also seen mounted to the lower part of the rear bend made to attache the support bar to the license plate bracket. The bottom part of it can be used to display lights as shown. With the signals tucked up snug behind the bags it makes a very neat looking outfit. Extremely functional too. |
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| Here Bob Jones shows the 6mm bolt secured to the bag inner wall by to large fender washers. It will hold the bag center to the side mount wall and keep the bag on the shelf when being jarred on the road. They will stay perfectly straight and alligned while on the bike and look as if they are permently mounted. The bags have stiffeners in the walls and hold their shape, even when empty. Neat! |
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| Here Bob shows where the bag attachement bolt goes though a corresponding hole in the side mount plate. |
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| Bob points two the 6mm Wing nut, flat and lock washer, which can be removed by hand to allow unzipping and removal of the bags to take into a motel with you. Also remounting is a piece of cake too. Zipped first and then put on the shelf, reach inside and guide the bolt into its hole. Finish by installing the flat washer first, then the lock washer and finally the wing nut tighten enough to compress the lock washer and you're ready to roll. |
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| The dream sport touring XS Eleven SSR/2. Most powerful touring bike ever. What you see is TYPE II with luggage system. Price is $25,884.95 |
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Hats
$9.95 while they last!
OUT OF PRODUCTION PARTS FOR THE XS ELEVEN
Shaft Drive and Coupler - NEW! These hard to find shaft drive and coupler gears are made by us and available for the XS Eleven, both models, from us at Merriam Cycle.
Yamaha no longer has these parts nor will they. Without them the bike will not be able to move under it’s own power once a toltal failure takes place.
Until recently it has been a relatively small problem to have them wear out. Usually confined to those riders who put very high mileage on their bike. However, many of the bikes have been parked and out of service for many years and then sold to a new owner. The wheel grease that lubricates these gears has to be hand packed into them, as the grease sert that is located at the flange where the final drive gear box attaches to the swing arm end is has little if any effect on actual lubrication. It is located to far back from the engagement area and fails to get the grease into the gear teeth. So, even if an effort was made to service this by an owner it’s to no avail and the original grease has dried over the years leaving a disastrous situation. Just as soon as the unit is made to run and put back into service by its new owner the gears begin to over heat and wear at a rapid rate. Once the gear teeth wear to a sharp point at the end you will have excessive rear wheel play and eventually all of the teeth on the drive shaft will shear off flat. At that point the bike will not be able to turn the rear wheel and you will be stranded.
The rear or final gear box is held on by 4 nuts at the flange. You have only to take the rear wheel off and dislocate the left rear shock to remove these nuts and the final drive gear box can be pulled off, so you can then see the end of the drive shaft and its teeth. If they are flat at the end of each tooth they are still okay, but if they are to a sharp point excessive wear has taken place and the shaft needs to be replaced along with its coupler gear held onto the final drive gear box by one nut. There is a spring stuck onto the the bolt holding it. That controls end play on the drive shaft, so don’t let it fall off and become lost.
I have had these shafts and gears made and hardened like the originals at great expense, so that we can keep riding these great bikes. If you need them the cost is $600.00 for the set. If hand packed every 10-20,000 miles they will never wear out, but once it has happened you’ll have to get new ones and to my knowledge Bob Jones and Merriam Cycle is the only place you can get them. Some salvage does exist, but you then risk having excessive wear on them too. Most people have only replaced the shaft and not the coupler gear as it is harder to see the wear on it. They wear as a set like chain and sprockets. If you stick a new shaft into the worn coupler it will make a new wear pattern to mate to the worn part just the same as a new chain on a worn sprocket. Then wear out immediately.
If you need these parts they are in stock. Too order call us at (913) 677-4663 with credit card info. And we’ll send you a set right out and tell you exactly how to install them.
Thanks Bob Jones owner/author
