Ben,
Welcome. What a great set of parts to start a rebuild project. For forks and other parts you have choices if you want to stick to stock looking parts. Frank's is a great start, but check MikesXS.com for parts. I use their stuff for other bikes all the time.
You could also go with say a set of early Yamaha R6 forks which are conventional looking but much stiffer and lighter and that would make a brake upgrade easier.
Talking of brakes, there have been many XS brake upgrade options over the years from large diameter rotors to multi piston calipers. Lots of options to drive you slowly mad working out what you want to do.
You have a lot of work ahead but it's realy just a strip, clean, inspect, re-finish, build process. Styles have changed a bit over the decades and for my taste the ideal look for an XS is the tracker look. They also look good as conventional sixties style cafe racers a.k.a. Manx Norton look. Or make it look stock and surprise people with the sleeper approach.
The so called Brat style fortunately seems to be falling out of favor which is good. The latest style trend seems to be muscular naked street bikes, which are in many ways a modern street tracker look.
You have a great starting point for sure.
Welcome. What a great set of parts to start a rebuild project. For forks and other parts you have choices if you want to stick to stock looking parts. Frank's is a great start, but check MikesXS.com for parts. I use their stuff for other bikes all the time.
You could also go with say a set of early Yamaha R6 forks which are conventional looking but much stiffer and lighter and that would make a brake upgrade easier.
Talking of brakes, there have been many XS brake upgrade options over the years from large diameter rotors to multi piston calipers. Lots of options to drive you slowly mad working out what you want to do.
You have a lot of work ahead but it's realy just a strip, clean, inspect, re-finish, build process. Styles have changed a bit over the decades and for my taste the ideal look for an XS is the tracker look. They also look good as conventional sixties style cafe racers a.k.a. Manx Norton look. Or make it look stock and surprise people with the sleeper approach.
The so called Brat style fortunately seems to be falling out of favor which is good. The latest style trend seems to be muscular naked street bikes, which are in many ways a modern street tracker look.
You have a great starting point for sure.
