Hello Pcm;

You need to get on websites such as www.yamaha-triples.org or

http://www.bikez.com/msgboard/msg.ph...7595&type=bike

Get to know some other riders of the XS850 and pick their brain for repair tips and troubleshooting.

Royal Oak on Thursday nights is known as "Metric Night" [[it takes a metric wrench to fix it) and a lot of vintage bikes are in town. BTW, the V-twins show up on Wednesday nights. Anyway some of the guys in the Vintage Japanese Motorcycle Club [[VJMC) hang out on Third Street, just west of Main.

http://www.vjmc.org/

Nice weather always brings out more riders.