Uhh... Not trying to hi-jack this thread, but it is mostly on the subject of alternate wheels, right?
If that's OK, I found a Yamaha wheel off of an XS 650, I was told, '76-'79, that ALMOST is a direct fitment. There has to be hundreds of these wheels lost in the bike wrecking yards around the USA, let alone the world... Mine were cheap, I think I paid $30 for three wheels???
Disc width is 2.8mm? Seems the same as my H-2 discs.... The yam disc is a little bigger in diameter, 11 11/16"? ... 297mm??? Nothing here that large in metric measuring available....
I have a dual disc kaw and yam wheel, as they both have both sides drilled for discs. The difference in width, outside-to-outside of the dual discs, was about .032"?
WHY I was looking at these wheels, is that they come laced up to shouldered aluminum 19" WM2 Takasago rims.
Even the H-2 speedo cable screwed correctly into place on the yam drive.
The PROBLEM with these wheels are thus;
IF you are trying to stay with the original H-2/1 40 spoke wheels, the Yams are only 36 spokes. But nobody can count spokes at speed...
And, the yam fork assembly IS narrower, and the yam axle has hexes on the ends, both ends being nuts. I 'spose you could lathe the hexes off, thereby having enough length to clamp onto [ 24mm diameter clamping? ], but I ended up placing a .075" thick washer between the speedo drive and it's nut, everything closely centered up! No pinching closed the fork ends. Cleared the hexes!
Seems like a CHEAP way to get an aluminum laced wheel up front! No, it isn't even close to stock H-2. No show bike possibility here.....
The funny thing to me is, there is more braking surface on the yam disc, than there is on the H-2 disc! Even the carrier the actual disc bolts/rivets to, the yam's carrier is smaller than the H-2's!
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