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    Light available wheels

    Hi all,

    just wondering what wheels are light and available? 2.5 front and 3.5 rear, looking to lighten my pudgy rgv125, hard to find weights for narrow wheels.

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    Quote Originally Posted by TerraRoot View Post
    Hi all, just wondering what wheels are light and available? 2.5 front and 3.5 rear.
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    For light ish road 2.5x17 wheels look at the earlier NSR250 MC16 MC18 and other Honda front wheels from that era.

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    For light road 3.5x17 wheels look at the bigger Suzuki twin disk fronts.

    Team ESE use a mix of Honda and Suzuki wheels. A cush drive in the rear wheel is nice to have but not that necessary, early Yamaha road racers never had them. So a Suzuki twin disk front can make an ideal 3.5x17 rear.

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    Yamaha TZ road race rear hub sans cush drive.

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    Cheers TZ, skipping the cush drive would be quite acceptable, will start looking for wheel weights, then when i get time strip and measure what i have.

    wire wheels would be quite heavy am i right?

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    Quote Originally Posted by TerraRoot View Post
    wire wheels would be quite heavy am i right?
    No, when we were looking at wheels the wire wheels were much the same weight as the lighter alloy ones.

    On the ESE thread there was some discussion about wheels and how much they weighed.

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    thanks again, 3.24 kg for the mc16 rim seems good, looking up new rims and going by the shipping weights it seems every rim is 4.2kg

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