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INTRODUCING THE XS ELEVEN SSR/2
BOB JONES’ SIGNATURE REPLICA

The ultimate XS Eleven is finally here. After more than two decades of R&D and many previous custom XS Elevens created by Bob. The perfect Colors, graphics, cosmetic and body parts, suspension and handling pieces, engine and transmission parts all came together in this unbelievable XS Eleven. Style inspired and named after his new 2006 Chevy SSR.


THE XS Eleven SSR/2 COMES IN TYPE I and TYPE IIPaint scheme and graphics are the same on both versions. The only difference is cylinder head intake porting and individual K&N air cleaners on TYPE II and exhaust porting only with the stock airbox on TYPE I. Oh yeah, there’s $2000.00 difference in price too. However, you can’t ride TYPE II in a rain storm or it would suck water into the carburetors, so it’s a fair weather kind of bike that can beat about anything in a stop light drag race. Yes, even a big sport bike. Remember they are geared for extremely high top end speed and have to give up some low end to get that. The XS Eleven’s top speed is somewhat governed by its final drive gear ratio to about 150 mph. However, going from 97 bhp on the 1978 standard stock to around 150 bhp on the SSR/2 and raising the compression ratio from 9:1 to 10.25:1, not to speak of taking 6 pounds of unsprung weight off of the wheels via EBC brake rotors and then a lighter exhaust, front fender etc. should put you somewhere in the 9’s in a quarter mile with the right person in the driver seat. In an 8th mile, well you don’t wanna know. Like I said in a stop light contest there won’t be any contest when you disappear before everyones eyes. Maybe I should have called it the invisible bike. Now you see it now you don’t, walla.
The seat alone is a work of art. Not only the two tone styling to match the awesome paint and graphics. It has a lowered driver area with a back stop to keep you from sliding to the rear under the bike’s massive acceleration. The torque is better than a big twin and the power band is never ending from idle to red line. It’s like having a V8 in a motorcycle without the weight.

Equipped with a Wiseco 1196cc kit, a ported head, Dynojet kitted carburetors and a Bob Jones modified transmission the ride is indescribable. With heavy duty larger wire front fork springs and and the best aluminum body 418 progressive shocks available with chrome load adjustable springs and dampening adjuster to boot. Then backed up with a high polished fork brace. Handling is a dream to enhance the 29.5 degree rake angle of the XS Eleven Standard, which in my opinion is superior to most anything out there to start with.

Brakes are equipped with steel braided lines and EBC floater rotors that self center like a sport bike. The heavier chrome plated steel fender is replaced with a plastic super bike type with painted graphics and trimmed with chrome edging. Giving the front end a distinctive different look. The café fairing and engine scoop all painted to match tank, side covers and the seat tail cowling. Mirrors are mounter on the fairing like a sport bike. The end result of all of that you can see in the photo’s here.

The bike you see here is the end result of everything I have been able to accomplish with the XS Eleven. It will not only perform like a sport bike, accelerate like a drag bike and carry more than a Gold Wing. It will last 50 years, needs little service and is easy to work on. Find me a $40-80,000.00 chopper that can do that or for that matter any new bike. I don’t think so. But if you can, like Lee Iaccoca used to say when he was with Chrysler. Buy it!

However, for $23,000 you can get a SSR/2  TYPE  I  XS  ELEVEN or for $25,000 you can get a TYPE II. It takes a minimum of 90 days to build one. We need 50% down when we start on your bike and the remainder on delivery. We build them numerically from the order dates. It takes a $2000 non refundable deposit to get on the list before we can start on it. When we start on your unit we will call you for the additional $9,500.00 on a TYPE I or $10,500.00 on a TYPE II, whichever the case may be. The remainder when it’s finished. These prices are FOB and freight or shipping would be additional depending on where you live or want it to be sent. Several people have come here to the Kansas City area and picked up bikes we have built for them and rode or trailered them home. This is the only way we can build this bike and offer it at the present pricing, as each unit must be done by hand unless we stop all other business to increase production capabilities. This of course would cause them to be far more expensive. Prices will stay the same as long as costs do not go up or supply and demand is possible. This is an exceptional motorcycle and an opportunity to own one reasonably by most anyone. If you have always wanted one of these bikes. This is the chance to get one in its most advanced form ever. It may never come again.

Think about it.

Bob Jones Builder

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