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dustystranger Junior Member Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 53	yamaha rear wheel 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?
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Reply #1 - 05/02/13 at 16:13:24

dustystranger wrote 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?

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.
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dustystranger Junior Member Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 53	Re: yamaha rear wheel Reply #2 - 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.
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Demin Serious Thumper Offline We need more chlorine in the gene pool Posts: 2435 Warren,Ohio Gender:	Re: yamaha rear wheel Reply #3 - 05/02/13 at 17:39:02 Try Buchannon spoke.They make spokes for about any combination and custom made ones too.
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srinath Serious Thumper Offline I love YaBB 1G - SP1! Posts: 5349	Re: yamaha rear wheel Reply #4 - 05/02/13 at 18:55:57 dustystranger wrote 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. Yea makes sense ... I have only had a few of em specials ... I never could figure out what made em so special ... Cool. Srinath.
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Reply #5 - 05/02/13 at 20:20:25

srinath wrote on 05/02/13 at 18:55:57:

dustystranger wrote 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.

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

Cool.
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Reply #6 - 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!

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Gentlemanjim Junior Member Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 61	Re: yamaha rear wheel Reply #7 - 05/06/13 at 22:59:06 Couldn't agree more had 7 of them still want one
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