Instructionals For Swapping Out Rear Mag Disk Break Wheel With Spoked Drum Break

[anomie]

Hi all. This is my first post, so hello to everyone. I am starting my first build, I have a 1980 XS special with mag wheels disk brakes front and rear. I want to swap the mag wheels out for spokes.

I did some searching on the forum and it seems like the following are the facts:

1. You can't keep a disk brake on the back wheel if you want spokes.
2. You need to use a drum brake and swap the disk brakes out.

Are the above still true? Are there any spoked disk brake wheels that would fit the '80 XS special? My other question was if anybody knows of a photo-instructional for swapping out the rear disk mag with a drum brake (spoked wheel).

Sorry if I have asked a question that has been asked 73749723947923 times before. It looks like it is a very common question, but none of the other forum posts had the info that I needed. Hopefully I haven't angered the community with my first post

Thanks to everyone for the awesome community here, the information in this forum is amazing and it is helping me a lot.

 

[anomie]

After some searching I found that you can get a stock spoked front wheel and use Omar's Wheel Conversion Kit to convert it to use as a rear wheel (It looks like I am going to have to start saving ). That way I can keep the disk brake on the back.

http://www.omarsdtr.com/stwheel.html

(original: http://xs650temp.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=brake&action=display&thread=12563)

If there is no instructional already then I'll post come pics and an instructional when I get this done.