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Dreanimal YaBB Newbies Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 21	Replacement Wheels 03/30/23 at 05:26:41 My wheels are starting to show quite a bit of corrosion and I'll need some replacements. Any recommendations on where to start looking? I'm quite familiar with how to pick out automotive wheels, but motorcycle wheels are a new arena for me. I'm open to either spoke wheels or alloys. Thanks.
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badwolf Serious Thumper Offline Ridin' my Lil' Bagger - 153k miles so far Posts: 807 Palm Beach County, FL Gender:	Re: Replacement Wheels Reply #1 - 03/30/23 at 06:19:05 I have replaced the wheels on both of my bikes with alloy tubeless wheels. So I have 2 sets of stock wheels in VERY good shape, near new. I would pass them on cheap, as I have no use for them. Where do you live? I am in south Florida. We can check on the shipping.
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TrevorKlein Junior Member Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 59	Re: Replacement Wheels Reply #2 - 03/31/23 at 04:10:27 Vehicle or motorcycle rely more on tires than other objects, you can search out on different online stores websites for better options.
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Dreanimal YaBB Newbies Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 21	Re: Replacement Wheels Reply #3 - 03/31/23 at 07:45:58 badwolf wrote on 03/30/23 at 06:19:05: I have replaced the wheels on both of my bikes with alloy tubeless wheels. So I have 2 sets of stock wheels in VERY good shape, near new. I would pass them on cheap, as I have no use for them. Where do you live? I am in south Florida. We can check on the shipping. PM Sent
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Eegore Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 9086	Re: Replacement Wheels Reply #4 - 03/31/23 at 11:01:56 Badwolf what tubeless setup do you have?
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Re: Replacement Wheels
Reply #5 - 03/31/23 at 13:10:26

Eegore, I have mid 80's Suzuki 450 alloy wheels on one, direct swap in the rear, ( but 16'' wheel) a little work with the disc on the front.
The other has 02' Suzuki Marauder wheels, 15 x 3.50 rear, and 16 x 3.00 front. The rear uses a larger brake with a tourqe arm, the front I had to make a adapter for a 320mm disc and dual piston caliper from a sv650.
A bunch of work, but with 3 fingers on the front brake I can lock-up the front wheel at 30mph. No more grabbing the front brake and praying.

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Eegore Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 9086	Re: Replacement Wheels Reply #6 - 03/31/23 at 14:04:55 Ok thanks for the information.
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zipidachimp Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 1459 surrey, b.c. Gender:	Re: Replacement Wheels Reply #7 - 04/01/23 at 11:18:38 I did the GS450 rear, works great. "1 tube tire is better than 2 tube tires" ! Cheers!
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Re: Replacement Wheels
Reply #8 - 04/11/23 at 05:58:24

badwolf wrote on 03/31/23 at 13:10:26:

Eegore, I have mid 80's Suzuki 450 alloy wheels on one, direct swap in the rear, ( but 16'' wheel) a little work with the disc on the front.
The other has 02' Suzuki Marauder wheels, 15 x 3.50 rear, and 16 x 3.00 front. The rear uses a larger brake with a tourqe arm, the front I had to make a adapter for a 320mm disc and dual piston caliper from a sv650.
A bunch of work, but with 3 fingers on the front brake I can lock-up the front wheel at 30mph. No more grabbing the front brake and praying.

Great stuff, thanks for the info!

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