H2RTuner wrote:
Eliot did two versions. Magnesium for racing, aluminum for street use.
As his place was 150 feet from the road race shop, I ended up with doing a lot of work with he, and his blueprint person, Dave Hussey (Dave is motojournalist Ron Hussey's brother).
As I remember, for H2R racer bikes, the only front wheels were 18 inch magnesium, Wm3 wide. There were no 19 inch racing slicks back then.
For H2 street bike, there were aluminum 19 inch wheels only, Wm2 wide.
For the entire time I was associated with Morris Mags, I had the ONLY ALUMINUM 18 inch H2 street bike front wheel Eliot ever made, for me, Wm3.
Note about the magnesium Morris wheels. When attempting to use them for a tubeless tire, be very careful. Those wheels are extremely porous, and have/had an epoxy coating in the recess area, and need clear silicone seal on the tire beads to seal the tire to the wheel. Tubes were OK to use, tire runs hotter with tube. Radial tires not advised to use.
I'd sure like to find that wheel, it just might help find whom stole that H2 fully modified street bike out of my shop in Merced, Ca., in 1993.
I figured as much but the seller continues to say it's for an H2R because it is stamped into the rim.
I asked where he took the 19" measurement and it was done properly and it is 3" wide.
Interesting and I'm curious as to what it fits.