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Modern wire wheels with cable drive speedo?

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Modern wire wheels with cable drive speedo?

#1 PostAuthor: 750steve » Sun Feb 19, 2012 12:11 pm

Have any of you guys used or do you know of 17" modern wire wheels that you can use the cable drive of the Z's? When doing my build i want ot get 160 rear & 120 front rubber on my 650. This may of course be a non starter anyway as im sure you cant recalibrate the Z's clocks, i would put some Zephys clocks on to keep the original look but i havent looked into wheather they work or not.

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#2 PostAuthor: zed1015 » Sun Feb 19, 2012 12:41 pm

The 750 zeph wire wheels are the obvious choice which would solve all your problems.
Trouble is they were a limited run for one year and much sought after.

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#3 PostAuthor: 750steve » Sun Feb 19, 2012 12:58 pm

Cheers Zed, i had an idea they done wire wheels on the 750 Zephyr's but didn't know they were scarce! Well i've got a good while to look about them, i think they're double disc too which also helps, if they're 300mm discs then im on a mission to find em, in fact if i need the wheels & clocks i might just buy a donor bike cos the engine fits in the 650 too.

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#4 PostAuthor: chrisNI » Sun Feb 19, 2012 1:51 pm

Zephyr front is 18".

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#5 PostAuthor: 750steve » Sun Feb 19, 2012 2:28 pm

Bugger! didn't know that Chris, that means it wont fit under the ER6 Mudguard so its a non starter unless i run no front muddy

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#6 PostAuthor: zed1015 » Sun Feb 19, 2012 6:15 pm

chrisNI wrote:Zephyr front is 18".


????
Have had a couple of 750 zeph's go through my hands, the wheels ARE 17" front and back.

Front takes 120/70/17
Back takes 150/70/17

The 1996 Classic was the one with spoked wheels, Wish i has fitted mags and kept the spokes when i sold it.

http://www.motorcyclenews.com/MCN/biker ... 1992-1998/

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#7 PostAuthor: steve.w » Sun Feb 19, 2012 6:58 pm

defo 17 inch front on spoked wheels :wink:

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#8 PostAuthor: chrisNI » Sun Feb 19, 2012 8:57 pm

Maybe the 750 ones are 17" then, mine are off an 1100 and it's definitely an 18" front and a 17" back unless I have the wrong front tyre on it.... :shock: I thought they were all the same. Rear tyre for the 1100 is a 160 so that's another difference. I only ever saw one 750 with wire wheels many years ago, it was a german bike obviously visting. I have never seen an 1100 with wires except in Micky Hesse's book.

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#9 PostAuthor: CAT3 » Mon Feb 20, 2012 12:22 pm

If you could get hold of a wheel and/or hub there would be nothing to stop you having the hub re-spoked onto a rim size of your choice ? You'd only have to get a rim with the correct number of spoke holes in it. This might be another avenue to explore.
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