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Yamaha put a thin coat of paint inside the cases, if it's removed should it be replaced? Looking for opinions and thoughts on this and whether oil impregnation is an issue or not if there's no paint inside.

EDIT: having taken a few out to see how inners fit as outers I realize it doesn't even want to line up. I'll leave the original post as it was. end edit. I've just laced up my 18" rear wheel using stainless spokes, the pattern is good, none of the spokes are bending or interfering with each...

found out they don't.

The wheels I have are wire spoked from a '77D, all stripped down waiting on rebuild, but before I do that I want to do some welding where the rim tape was to fill in some pitting, which gets fairly deep in parts, to restore the surface and overall balance of the wheel. I'm not repairing...

Hello all, my first post.... and yes it's with a small problem :S I'm chop/bobbin a UK spec '77 xs with 18" rear wheel... I just took delivery of my new David Bird looptail from lowbrow the other day and realised the axle plates are 8" 3/4 apart leaving me a space of 1/4" for my wheel to...