1979 Yamaha XS650, 650cc. Registration number EEL 398T. Fram...

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1979 Yamaha XS650, 650cc. Registration number EEL 398T. Frame number 2FO – 153373. Engine number 2FO - 153373.
The Yamaha XS650 was introduced in October 1969, and produced through to1985. The XS650 began with the 1955 Hosk SOHC twin, after about 10 years of producing the 500 twin, the Hosk engineers designed a 650cc twin. Later the Hosk company was acquired by the Showa Corporation and, in 1960, Yamaha had bought Showa with Hosk's early design of the 650cc twin.
When the Yamaha XS650 was launched in October 1969 it had one of the most advanced engines in its class of large parallel twin motorcycles. The engine and gearbox are unit construction with the crankcase split horizontally for ease of assembly whereas almost all contemporaries in its class in 1969 are either unit construction with a vertically split crankcase or pre-unit construction with separate engine and gearbox. The XS650's engine was used in AMA professional dirt bike racing by national champion Kenny Roberts.
EEL was first registered in the UK in 2019, little is known of its early life, but from a custom’s form issued in Northern Germany in 1998, it states the last vehicle owner being in the USA. In October 2015 the bike was issued with an MOT, the mileage being 7,304, the current mileage being 7,329. With some TLC EEL could soon be back on the road.
Sold with the V5C, German certificate and 2015 MOT.