XS650 Project

I inherited this XS650 project off of Spencer a few months ago. This bike started off as a street tracker project that turned into a almost year long hard tail project. His plans were to build it , ride it for a bit then sell for a Sportster. Well he bought the Sportster before he finished the XS and wanted to start tearing into that bike first day. I had to put my foot down and say you gotta finish the XS before you start tearing up that Sporty. After a few beers at Pizza Port one Saturday I said I would finish the XS for him in trade for credit on parts to build the sporty. Long story short I have a XS650 I have to finish along with the half dozen other projects I have here in the shop. Here are a few pictures of what I got and what we have done.

Before

                                                                

Sissy Bar, seat, and exhaust ( exhaust from Chop Cult )

                                        
                                              

Fender Bracket

                                                                    

Headlight mount not yet finished

                                                         

Tail light, License mount, and under seat electrical box

                                           


New tank also found on Cop Cult

                                               

Side view of hidden electrical box

 

HIATUS OVER

Been a while since we posted on the blog and thought we would start back up with some stuff we like around here at BenchMark. BenchMark is more than just parts for your chop, its a group of like minded people that enjoy hanging out at the shop fabricating, machining, and wrenching on whatever project we have going on. Anytime your around downtown Carlsbad come by for a beer and see what we are all about. Until then...

 

 

 

Changes

Hello All,

Effective today I will no longer be involved with Bench*Mark.

If you have any outstanding orders, unpaid invoices, promotions, events or general questions

Patrick McCormack can be reached at the following. address's.

patrick@cecnc.net

benchmark.cbd@gmail.com

I can always be found at: Boylecomm@gmail.com

Thank you

Kim Boyle

Who's?

Shipped

A whole lot of product went out to dealers yesterday.

Product!

I'm off to the polisher right now to pickup all styles of ignition covers, air cleaners and kicker pedals.

The rest of the week will be assembly & packaging.

Everything should be ready to ship by weeks end.

Making Parts

A TON of stuff went to polish yesterday.

Air cleaners, all styles of points covers & kicker pedals. All should be shipping by this time next week.

Breather bolts are available now & a couple of new bits are in the works.

Thanks all.

Bench*Mark Now available in the UK

link: WWW.VintageChop.com

Seans Pan Shovel

Making an Ombligo air cleaner look good.

33 Ignition Covers

The guys over at ChopCult asked us to run some ignition covers of their design and straight out of the machine they look pretty cool.

Moving and renovating our new shop has been ridiculously slow and none of our finishing machines are up and running so the ChopCult crew is handling that.

Available in 2 bolt vertical, 2 bolt hoizontal & twin cam hole patterns.

Expect to see them up in The CC store with in the next couple of weeks.

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link: ChopCult.Com

Neto Mod

Proud in Yokohama

Weirdo Volume #1

Lowbrow Customs latest.

Weirdo vol#1,

a zine, a catalog, tech tips, features.

And they gave B*M a bitchen spread.

you need to check it out.

link: Lowbrowcustoms

B*M Nomination.

It's the annual Cycle Source survey time & Bench*Mark air cleaner was nominated in a couplecategories.

If your into it

Go Vote

(link) Cycle Source

Cro Customs BS1

We were honored when Caleb hit us up for a one off ignition cover for this amazing bike. If you haven't already go check out the beauty & detail.

More photos here: BS1 pics

link: Cro Customs

Restock

The store has been restocked a bit including a few of the new air cleaners.

link: Bench*Mark Store

Split Rocker Ironhead

Brian J's winter project/summer ride.

Now it's time to move on & she's for sale.

Interested?

SOLD!

www.locobastardo.blogspot.com

The New Style

We had a few requests for simple style.

We'll try a dozen or so and see.

I used a scotch-brite pad the raised section for a little contrast but they'll go out the door all polished.

This Sunday Sept 5th

This will be a great time, Come check it out.

Joonas!

Finland Style.