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Originally Posted by Skip Newsom
Found a 66' 650 recently rebuilt. Popped it in and it runs great, good torque for a 650, cackles and pops at all the right times.
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I've always loved the 650s, they're glorious - much more free-revving than the 750s.
750s apparently came from the factory with the intake cam coming on song just as the exhaust cam pretty much gives up flowing completely. So you have to wring them out and they're nothing like as much fun. Fitting the E3134 (I think?) exhaust cam to the 750 will fix that. I never paid much attention to the "oily frame" models...
Many really like any of the numerous 750 big-bore kits on the 650.
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Originally Posted by Skip Newsom
The double shoe front hub looks cool but demands a serious squeeze to come close to locking.
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Ah, late-model conical hub. There's a reason they're known as the "comical hub".
The '69 MY TLS brake - which uses a full-width 8" drum and shoes to match, linked with a rod - works much, much better in practice. Also the '68 MY, except these have a odd non-optimal cable path...
Good choice ditching those late slab-sided covers. Hated that look at the time - it certainly didn't improve with age...