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gav
6th June 2011, 19:41
Suzuki rear rim, 2.75 x 17. Anyone know what its off? Anyone got a sprocket carrier to suit? I'm hoping to fit it to my FXR150, at first it seems great, same size axle, had a disc that fitted. The FXR sprocket fits ok, but it seems to be too wide. Not a lot can be machined off the sprocket carrier either, it seems. I'm hoping maybe the original carrier would be narrower.
Grumph
6th June 2011, 19:48
Looks like an Impulse wheel
gav
6th June 2011, 19:55
Thats what I have always thought it was. However seems some Impulses have a 3.00 x 17 wheel? My wheel came with a matching 16" front. Maybe the early Impulses ran this configuration, and later they changed?
Bert
7th June 2011, 07:13
Thats what I have always thought it was. However seems some Impulses have a 3.00 x 17 wheel? My wheel came with a matching 16" front. Maybe the early Impulses ran this configuration, and later they changed?

if it had a 16" with it; it would prob be a RG250 rim. just about every year they had a different size rim setup to try and get it to actually handle. could be wrong though.
F5 Dave
8th June 2011, 17:24
No, the RG had an 18" rear. Clearly what you have is a GF250 4cyl wheel set. You should have known.

(actually its a guess, but the more I think about it a good one)
Bert
9th June 2011, 06:48
No, the RG had an 18" rear. Clearly what you have is a GF250 4cyl wheel set. You should have known.


nope they were 16/18 combo on both years of release (85/86). :)

but maybe this is the answer:
Suzuki GSX 750ES. 1983
100/90-16
120/90-17
F5 Dave
9th June 2011, 10:59
ahh the old GSX alphabet soup. Can't remember what the wheels look like, but sure they were never in white. Well not on the GSX750ESD, but there was a hideous GSX750ESE model in red & blue that could have had white, but it was so hard to look at my memory has wiped it away..
jasonu
9th June 2011, 14:37
ahh the old GSX alphabet soup. Can't remember what the wheels look like, but sure they were never in white. Well not on the GSX750ESD, but there was a hideous GSX750ESE model in red & blue that could have had white, but it was so hard to look at my memory has wiped it away..

I had an 81 GSX750, the wheels, both 18" IIRC, looked nothing like the one in question. They had a cross over pattern, not the 3x2 pattern pictured
F5 Dave
9th June 2011, 15:33
Nah that was the E in 81, the ESD was like 83. Hmm, here's a link. Not not definitive as sometimes US had different wheels for some models, but I don't remember seeing the pattern shown on Gavs wheels on larger bikes,

http://www.suzukicycles.org/photos/GSX/GSX750ES-adverts/1983_GSX750ES_FIad-MP9_800.jpg


Hmm, having a look on that suzuki site, may give a clue. mainly repulses, RGs etc, maybe GSX600 first model
http://www.suzukicycles.org/GSX-series/adressfield-GSX-series.shtml
jasonu
9th June 2011, 15:55
Nah that was the E in 81, the ESD was like 83. Hmm, here's a link. Not not definitive as sometimes US had different wheels for some models, but I don't remember seeing the pattern shown on Gavs wheels on larger bikes,

http://www.suzukicycles.org/photos/GSX/GSX750ES-adverts/1983_GSX750ES_FIad-MP9_800.jpg


Hmm, having a look on that suzuki site, may give a clue. mainly repulses, RGs etc, maybe GSX600 first model
http://www.suzukicycles.org/GSX-series/adressfield-GSX-series.shtml

Yep ESD was 83 full floater, just what I left in me bogg
gav
9th June 2011, 20:48
I think they might be rims off an 87 RG250 the Mk3 version. Anyone got a sprocket carrier that might fit?
White trash
9th June 2011, 20:50
I think they might be rims off an 87 RG250 the Mk3 version. Anyone got a sprocket carrier that might fit?

Think they had three spoke wheels didn't they? Rounded front face to the spoke with and open rear?

Edit: Some did, some didn't. You may be right.
gav
9th June 2011, 21:05
http://www.suzukicycles.org/photos/RG/RG250-Gamma/1987_RG250G_sneright_700.jpg

Some modifications were made for the '87 year's model. The diameter of the front forks was increased from 36 to 38 mm (1.42 to 1.50 in.), the brake discs were enlargened and even the tyre sizes were changed (from 100/90-16 to 110/80-16 at the front and from 110/80-18 to 120/80-17 at the rear). The changes made the '87 model felt more rigid and less nervous than the earlier models.