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Message started by dustystranger on 05/02/13 at 16:08:51

Title: yamaha rear wheel
Post by dustystranger on 05/02/13 at 16:08:51

I want to mount a yamaha xs650 rear wheel rim to my savage. It looks like maybe the yamaha spokes might be long enough to lace the 18inch rim to my savage rear hub. Anybody have experience with this? Or does anyone know what length spoke is needed and where I could buy them?

Title: Re: yamaha rear wheel
Post by srinath on 05/02/13 at 16:13:24

7A6B6D6A676D6A6C7F70797B6C1E0 wrote:

The yamaha xs650 - atleast the ones I had have these thin thin thin spokes that were like 80 or something to a wheel.

You may not get the savage hub to get matched up to such a wheel.
Cool.
Srinath.

Title: Re: yamaha rear wheel
Post by dustystranger on 05/02/13 at 17:02:02

Yeah yamaha did sell a 650 custom called the special that had all those extra spokes. But the xs650 standard had a typical 36 spoke rear wheel.

Title: Re: yamaha rear wheel
Post by Demin on 05/02/13 at 17:39:02

Try Buchannon spoke.They make spokes for about any combination and custom made ones too.

Title: Re: yamaha rear wheel
Post by srinath on 05/02/13 at 18:55:57

2B3A3C3B363C3B3D2E21282A3D4F0 wrote:

Yeah yamaha did sell a 650 custom called the special that had all those extra spokes. But the xs650 standard had a typical 36 spoke rear wheel.

Yea makes sense ... I have only had a few of em specials ... I never could figure out what made em so special ...

Cool.
Srinath.

Title: Re: yamaha rear wheel
Post by WD on 05/02/13 at 20:20:25

4342595E514458300 wrote:

[quote author=2B3A3C3B363C3B3D2E21282A3D4F0 link=1367536131/0#2 date=1367539322]Yeah yamaha did sell a 650 custom called the special that had all those extra spokes. But the xs650 standard had a typical 36 spoke rear wheel.

Yea makes sense ... I have only had a few of em specials ... I never could figure out what made em so special ...

Cool.
Srinath.[/quote]

Almost a perfect clone of a 1954 Triumph/BSA joint design prototype that resulted (10 years later) in the unit construction Bonneville. The Yammie was a touch more oil tight, had marginally better electrical parts, and much nicer wheels. A really clean set of 650 Special 60 spoke wheels is worth as much as a complete, but not running, cast wheel standard version...

Title: Re: yamaha rear wheel
Post by dustystranger on 05/06/13 at 18:55:12

Hey WD, here is a little historical clarification on the xs650. It was originally built in Germany by Horex. It started out as a 500cc twin. Roller bearing crank, roller bearings on the connecting rods, splined crankshaft halves, ball bearing supported camshaft. Horex sold the design to a japanese company. Yamaha then acquired the production rights. They then upped it to a 650. I do not believe anyone built a more robust 650. Triumph and BSA are not even close. Racing Triumphs were at their reliability limit at 750cc. Today people are still racing Yamahas punched out to 800cc burning nitro as hill climbers. No English twin could survive such tweaking. Gotta love that xs650!

Title: Re: yamaha rear wheel
Post by Gentlemanjim on 05/06/13 at 22:59:06

Couldn't agree more had 7 of them still want one