JordansCustoms
XS400 New Member
A guy who lives near me has an '81 XS400 Special II sitting in his barn. I don't think it's been used in a decade. It has a little over 5,000 original miles. A little surface rust is coming through the tank on the outside. The fork seals and tires are rotted out. Everything else is in decent shape. I figured if I could get it for $500, it would make a great build. I have a dream of turning it into an off-roader. My biggest question is this: would I be able to take forks and a wheel and tire from a scrap dirt bike and stick them right in the triple-tree of the xs400? (I'm assuming here that I would find forks of the same diameter). I feel like this would save me a lot of time and money trying to rebuild the stock forks and buying a new dirt bike tire for the front.
Any advice would be great!
Any advice would be great!