1980 xs650 bobby
XS650 Enthusiast
Can anyone point me in the right direction on some spoke wheels for my bike. I was looking in mikexs and saw they have some that look good. If any of you ride with spokes post a pic
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1980 xs650 spoke wheels
- Thread starter 1980 xs650 bobby
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Spoke ratio?
I guess I'd recommend a strict adherance of 1:1, spoke hole to spoke.
Try a forum search on "wheel lacing" for a flood of info...
Spoke ratio?
I guess I'd recommend a strict adherance of 1:1, spoke hole to spoke.
Try a forum search on "wheel lacing" for a flood of info...
Exploding Coffin Emporium
Day tight compartments
Lacing up wheels is an art in some ways, and those spokes are the sweet mama’s keeping your teeth from grinding the asphalt. Advice, buy some OEM XS650 wheels, have them trued/balanced by a Shop and run them. If you wanna learn about the assembly read your manual, but building a wheel is not amateur hour, .02
Hi bobby,
you mean wire-spoked wheels, eh? The artillery wheels on your bike got 7 spokes in each of them.
OK then:-
Any XS650 post '73 front wire wheel will plug straight in. '76 or earlier will need to have it's 2-part brake disk swapped for your existing disk.
Any XS650 rear wire wheel will plug straight into your hardtail frame but there ain't no rear wire wheels with disk brakes so you hafta switch to
running a rear drum.
Look at the bike photos in this list to choose which particular wire wheel option you like best and put a want ad in the list's classifieds.
&btw, amateurs can so lace up wire wheels. All it takes is time and patience. The first one takes a week, the second takes a day and subsequents take half an afternoon.
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1980 xs650 bobby
XS650 Enthusiast
Thanks for the info. Very helpful, I appreciate you taking the time to explain that to me.
Hi bobby,
sorry about the '3-part disk" typo that I've just corrected in my original post
. '76 & earlier XS650 front brake disks have 2 parts, not the 3 that my banana-finger typed.
Although the 2-part disks will bolt onto any post '72 XS650 front wheel they are dished differently than the one-piece disks and won't
line up with the later brake calipers.
