Hello, I am new to this forum, looks like a nice place. Just bought
a 2001 Savage or really traded a set of wheels and tires for it.. ha

Got it for my boy as a custom project we can work on together, but
I think I have fallen in love with this bike myself also.

Building a bobber type bike.

Here are some of the questions I have come up with SO  FAR..

Has anyone put a 170-80-15 on the back here? Looks like it will be
close. We are removing the rear footpegs and mounts so the clearance on that side is OK..Will be close to the belt.  As anyone trying to find a wider rim for a 15" for 36 spokes has found it is hard,
I am hoping the rim will fit the bigger tire..May go with a 160-80-15??

Question 2. are the spokes Stainless or Coated as I want to polish
them? Have polished coated spokes before and that turns out not so well, as they rust easier from then on..ha
                                             thanks, Keith

verslagen1 thanks for the reply..your answer sent me out to the shop
with calipers in hand. and did some measuring.

Yeah, I think a 170 may be pushing the limits. If it lays 170 which it may not with this narrow of a rim. it only leaves me with 1mm from
the belt(where it sits now may be out of alighnment for all I know @
this point)

It will also be taller making it to close to the right side of the swing
arm maybe for my swingarm mounted fender. Of corse I could shorten
the front (bottom) of the fender and mount it above the cross on the
swingarm.

Thanks for the reply as it really got me thinking.
I think I will use the 160 & that will be wide and tall enough.

p.s. no bolts in the way, sorry to say to the purists as the first 2 tools
we've used on this build were a socket set, and more importantly a
cutt-off wheel
                           thanks again..

http://suzukisavage.com/cgi-bin/YaBB.pl?num=1240434753/4#4

http://suzukisavage.com/cgi-bin/YaBB.pl?num=1232803482/5#5

here's the one with the wider rim

http://suzukisavage.com/cgi-bin/YaBB.pl?num=1228323981/5#5

Talk to Oldfeller.  He has put an oversize tire on his.  It is also a car tire (darksider).

T

K-custom, here's mine with 160/60R15 and intruder 4'' wide rim. Intruder 1400, that is.

http://www.bikepics.com/pictures/1626458/
http://www.bikepics.com/pictures/1626454/
Clearance right: http://www.bikepics.com/pictures/1626455/
And left: http://www.bikepics.com/pictures/1626456/

I wish I went with 160/70, though.

thumperclone wrote on 08/21/09 at 08:55:56:

Yep he's da man wit da plan

Wow..Thanks for all the replys..Was amazed today when I read them all..Funny thing is I put in search; fat tire, big tire, bigger tire, and everything I could think of and didn't get any of the cool links that you
guys put on here...tnx mch.

Still thinking I will go with the 160-80-15, but thanks to your help will
locate the wider rim as it sounds like what I need. Im 49 yrs old and
been building HotRods all my life.(building a 41 Willys coupe right now)
but the last bike I built was over 20 yrs ago, so I am pretty rusty at
the bikes and the help is good...Painted a few lately, but that is it...

On the spokes, yeah guess I will give them a try as metal polishing is
a second nature to me. If they don't work out, been looking at
Buchanan spokes on the net..Stainless with stainless nipples (nuts).
Check them out they make "twisteds" and all.

Also been working on the mold for the rear fender some, but need to buy
the tire before I set the arc.   Not been a lot of extra cash growin on
the tree lately...
                                  thanks again all, Keith

look for a thread named whale