VFR 5.5" Wheel

[brewsy]

All,
I am borrowing a friends tools this weekend and alcohol and the consequences allowing will be in the garage on Sunday.

I just read on Ryans forum that a guy had the standard hub machined and then added a 1/8th spacer between the hub and wheel to centre it.
Is this correct?
I hadn't even considered that Honda would use a different offset on the wheel/SA assembly.

To find out for sure would I measure from wheel 'hub face' to the inner and outer edges of the wheels?

TIA,
Marc

[jaysun0ne]

from what i have herd you only have offset issues when mounting duc rims all honda rims have the same offset, maybe im wrong

maybe the spacer isnt for centering but for increasing clearance between the tire and swingarm???

has for cheaking hummm
im not sure

you could mark the center of both tires with something that will come off and roll the bike down the drive way if the marks line up you should be close. i guess that would be the easiest way, but maybe not the best way.

[jaysun0ne]

o ya i forgot you will have both rims to compare to each other

just set a strait edge on the inside lip of each rim (thats the lip thats on the left side of the bike) and measure to the mounting surface. if the numbers for both rims are the same well then you will know for sure.

to do this the best way will require both rims off the bike and no tires on them.

hoped that helped

[KDNYC]

Marc, if you don't get an answer here, you might also want to search the old Hawkgt.com archives. It's been around a while and there's usually a bunch of threads on the different mods. For searches I go directly to

http://lists.whathelps.com/wa.exe?S1=hawkgt-l&X=-

[Crash]

No spacer needed. Offset is the same.

[NT696]

+1
No spacers are needed. Offset is 19mm to the right hand side of the bike from center.

just set a strait edge on the inside lip of each rim (thats the lip thats on the left side of the bike) and measure to the mounting surface. if the numbers for both rims are the same well then you will know for sure.

-That only works if both rim widths are the same. Measure across the rim and subtract the straightedge number to compare.

[jaysun0ne]

+1
No spacers are needed. Offset is 19mm to the right hand side of the bike from center.

just set a strait edge on the inside lip of each rim (thats the lip thats on the left side of the bike) and measure to the mounting surface. if the numbers for both rims are the same well then you will know for sure.

-That only works if both rim widths are the same. Measure across the rim and subtract the straightedge number to compare.

o ya a detail i over looked sorry

brewsy how did it go???

[brewsy]

Thanks all.
So its the angle grinder tonight then...
Lets hope I don't go through the SA....

OOOoooo ERRRR

scared...

[NT696]

Brewsy:
If you are going to angle-grind your Hawk spindle shorter, consider leaving the 'first' diameter intact, and remove the rest. What I mean is not to shave it off mostly flush to the big diameter where the brake disk mounts. Leave the first diameter to fit into the VFR rim, (I think it is a nice snug fit) and take the side forces away from the bolts. I know a lot of forum members just use the VFR studs alone, but that has got to be weaker. Measure the rim hole and the spindle first to see if it is possible.

[brewsy]

Hey 696, I actually had my hub machined by Hord and he took it down flush..

I'm actually talking about grinding the swing arm.
On my wheel hub combination I've got less than 1mm between the wheel edge and the SA.
Dont feel this is enough so want to get up to at least 1 mm and will see if riding it causes any interference issues.

[jaysun0ne]

wow what about the tire?

or when you say wheel you are refiring to the tire?

[NT696]

Gotcha.
-Clearance to SSSA between rubber tire and cast aluminum. Different brands of tire are wider than theoretical 180 BTW.
Do the grinding with the drive chain tension set correct, and allow for a bit of future eccentric movement. I tried to do this with the eccentric loose, and for awhile could not figure out why the clerance was worse as I went along. Learn from my mistake.
Hope it goes well.

[DefTrap]

Why go to 180? 170 is plenty, used loads of different makes/models on mine over the years with no issues. Never had a dunlop yet, mind ...

[brewsy]

Peeps,
still kind of off track..

I'm talking about wheel, the big metal spinny thing.. , to SA clearance.
That is kind of tight with this wheel in place <1mm

The tyre is rubbing now and is a 180..
That will be a piece of cake to fix... a nice sharp blade will see to that!

180?
Why F'ing not. and it looks good.....
You don't need it and it slows down steering but I can always pull the bars harder to initiate the turn.

Ive kind of already gone far enough down this road that I may as well finish off the job as I wanted to be, you know?

[jaysun0ne]

there ya go

brewsy is one of us now (an american)

go big or go home


we do everything big here

big cars, big houses, big waist lines, lol we like living fat

tell him brewsy