Scotchmist
XS650 Enthusiast
Hi all,
I'm in the middle of putting an FZR 600 (3HE) front end on my bike. I've already made spacers to mount the XS front wheel in the FZR forks and now need to make a spacer to offset the Ducati rotor that I'll be using. I need to make a spacer that's around 17mm thick to allow enough space for a four pot caliper to be used with the spoked wheel. I've seen a few examples of rotor spacers, some of which use recessed head bolts which mount the spacer to the caliper and then separate bolts which mount the rotor to the spacer. The simpler alternative is to have longer bolts that pass through the spacer and screw into the hub in the usual way. My question is, is there some advantage in the more complex aforementioned method? With a 17mm spacer will there be any problems with simply attaching the rotor by bolting through the whole assembly into the hub?
Hope that's clear(ish). Thanks.
I'm in the middle of putting an FZR 600 (3HE) front end on my bike. I've already made spacers to mount the XS front wheel in the FZR forks and now need to make a spacer to offset the Ducati rotor that I'll be using. I need to make a spacer that's around 17mm thick to allow enough space for a four pot caliper to be used with the spoked wheel. I've seen a few examples of rotor spacers, some of which use recessed head bolts which mount the spacer to the caliper and then separate bolts which mount the rotor to the spacer. The simpler alternative is to have longer bolts that pass through the spacer and screw into the hub in the usual way. My question is, is there some advantage in the more complex aforementioned method? With a 17mm spacer will there be any problems with simply attaching the rotor by bolting through the whole assembly into the hub?
Hope that's clear(ish). Thanks.