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RICH
I am doing a bike for a young guy here in New Jersey and is a very cool looking bike with hard tail and springer. He bought it and his buddy who I helped out asked if I could finish up the build.
Now guys I know you want to try other parts from other bikes and want to change it up but you got to keep safe riding in your head too. This bike has a older ironhead rear wheel that someone tried to modify and they had the right idea but you have to change everything on a wheel just not the bearings when making a change from 1" to 3/4 or 3/4 to 20mm. The collar inside of the wheel is in there for a reason and it has to match the bearings if not it will flop around in there and will damage the wheel. This wheel has 1/16" play in it and can go up and down when riding . If you are going to change a wheel to fit what you are building bearings - spacers - and inside collar all must be the same size and if wheel has spacers that go into wheel they also have to match. In the past when I had no parts I just went to the local machine shop and took the parts and explained what I needed and they made it. The force from the sprocket alone would have torn up this wheel. Doing things half way will bite you in the ass and doing 65 mph with no front brake and rear wheel comes apart I THINK there will be some road rash. There are so many wheels that fit on a XS650 and you have to keep in mind HARD TAIL 8 1/2" spacing PLATE TO PLATE TCB hard tail. Stock wheel around 3 1/2 hub - spacers - adjusters - brake parts if disk does not leave you a lot of space. I have done 4" hub and it worked and was a Harley wheel. This wheel is more than 4" Hub so we have to look at other options .
Think SAFE and Keep Choppin
Rich
Now guys I know you want to try other parts from other bikes and want to change it up but you got to keep safe riding in your head too. This bike has a older ironhead rear wheel that someone tried to modify and they had the right idea but you have to change everything on a wheel just not the bearings when making a change from 1" to 3/4 or 3/4 to 20mm. The collar inside of the wheel is in there for a reason and it has to match the bearings if not it will flop around in there and will damage the wheel. This wheel has 1/16" play in it and can go up and down when riding . If you are going to change a wheel to fit what you are building bearings - spacers - and inside collar all must be the same size and if wheel has spacers that go into wheel they also have to match. In the past when I had no parts I just went to the local machine shop and took the parts and explained what I needed and they made it. The force from the sprocket alone would have torn up this wheel. Doing things half way will bite you in the ass and doing 65 mph with no front brake and rear wheel comes apart I THINK there will be some road rash. There are so many wheels that fit on a XS650 and you have to keep in mind HARD TAIL 8 1/2" spacing PLATE TO PLATE TCB hard tail. Stock wheel around 3 1/2 hub - spacers - adjusters - brake parts if disk does not leave you a lot of space. I have done 4" hub and it worked and was a Harley wheel. This wheel is more than 4" Hub so we have to look at other options .
Think SAFE and Keep Choppin
Rich