street tracker guys

[inxs]

...opel sand racer...ive had the pleasure to ride this bike-i believe its somewhere around 125cc with no brakes and surprisingly quick

...and this, well because i like the lines-has the boardtracker heritage, maybe even the-woody-look

 

[crash]

would love to ride the black and gold one in the first pic,looks like one of those sit down shut up and hold on kinda rides,lol.

 

[inxs]

- opel steher-pusher-here with 4 cyl inline-also produced with a v twin

- inline 4

 

[crash]

what a hell of a rear sprocket

 

[inxs]

Builder: Fritz von Opel

Motor: Opel 500ccm-OHV-Single Cylinder, 22 hp

Rockets: 6 Powder rockets with 5 kg thrust each

Rocket Specialist: Friedrich Sander, Bremerhaven

Motor Work: Fork and frame from pressed steel

Motorcycle Height: 1.4 meters (4.62 ft)

Motor Work Leader: Ernst Neumann Neander

Motorcycle Weight: 180 kg (396 lbs) fully loaded

Max. Speed: over 200 km/hr (125 mph)

Year: 1928

Production: 1

...this was may 23 1928 - opel-rak II - 24 sander rockets this bike did 125mph
...earlier on apr 12 1928 - opel-rak I - 6 sander rockets @ 70mph

...a test, also with 24 rockets accelerated a rail carriage to 100mph

- almost something you could expect from rodney rucker

- sorry for the hijack

 

[inxs]

- hand built excelsior

- check out the build - continue at page bottom...

http://flashbackfab.com/pages/excel00.html

 

[Travis]

I love reading about that excelsior build. It's long but I've read through it a couple of times in the past. Good stuff...

 

[mule]

That's a great one!

 

[crash]

now that bike has some great lines to it.

 

[KevC]

jmcgowen
Have you thought about an RD400 rear wheel conversion? Only 18" but plenty of tire choice. Been done many times before and the information is out there.
Also found some drawings for spacers to adapt 19" front wheel to rear but is needs to a spoked twin disc

For RD 400 conversion look here
http://xs650temp.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=brake&action=display&thread=1086

For 19" front spoked to rear wheel conversion look here
http://xs650temp.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=brake&action=display&thread=1134

Hope this is of some use to ya
Kev

 

[Travis]

Kev, that's some good info there.

If you're in a hurry, that second thread basically just leads to these pictures that "slide" posted in his photobucket account send to him by "DYENFD": http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v604/slide/Rear Wheel Conversion/

 

[inxs]

- rd250 hub, gsxr750 rim, xs650 rear sprocket...again from peter von sphinx

- bare wheel

- conversion plate

- sprocket spacer

- mounted

- with sprocket

 

[Travis]

Interesting! Do you happen to know the flange width of that RD250 hub?

 

[inxs]

- this is pretty nice - from metalhead cycles

- and sorry, forgot about the rd hub...will check it out

 

[Travis]

Damn!! way cool.

 

[gentlemanjim]

What swingarm?

 

[inxs]

- from peter?...built it himself from stainless that was lying around

 

[jheflin2006]

Damn that's a nice set up INXS. Did you make it or have someone else fab it up? I could use these for my xs650 tracker with a xs400 rear wheel. You should offer these up for sale, seems the xs/rd400 wheels are a popular choice for the 650's.

 

[inxs]

- welcome jheflin...SR hubs are cushioned-a definite improvement over stock XS hubs which lead to primary gear spring failure and wider gearbox problems

 

[jheflin2006]

Thanks INXS. My wheel has the same pressed in dampers that your wheel has in the pics. I bought this xs650 a few months ago and it already had an 18" rear with disc brake on it which I'm not certain what model it came off of but looks the same as the xs400 special and RD400. The wheel wasn't center when I got it so I took care of the wheel centering now the sprocket is off alignment by just under 7mm. My original thought was that I could shim it out with spacers on the back side, install some longer studs and be done with it. But when I took the wheel apart I realized it has the pressed in dampers and that the circlip acts as the sprocket retainer should the dampers fail so I can't just space it. So I guess I'm going to have to fab up a carrier or adapter plate to mate the the wheel and then mount the sprocket to that similar to yours or get an offset sprocket made up.

Where did you get your set up INXS or did you make it yourself?