13-09-13, 10:57 AM
Well, I liked it, very grippy and absorbed bumps nicely, had to change the front wheel today as the right side was virtually a slick tyre and in this rain I didn't want to risk it, it lasted 9000 miles including a trackday, now for me that mileage isn't adequate, but it was very responsive and gave great feedback, not once on the track did I have any concerns from the front end!
Now this brings me on to swapping the front wheel,
As a lot of you know I have a Thundercat front end on my '03 FZS and I was always going to look into a way of swapping wheels but keeping the speedo drive, well I took the fazer front wheel off and the tabs had already snapped off the ceramic inner drive, so I used my dremel to cut out the notches to accept the thundercat front wheel drive tabs, lined it all up and put in the spindle, tightened it up and the wheel was stiff as anything, very little free movement, so I loosened it off but still stiff.
Ok, I thought, lets take the spindle out and have a look, the ceramic drive unit was now completely shattered in the housing, arse.
Well, I gotta go to work so figured I'd ride without the speedo, the only thing that had put me off changing wheels earlier was I heard people having problems without a speedo attached, ie it doesn't rev properly or over 10,000 or something anyway.
I just tucked the drive unit up the forks and cable tied it to the yokes, and I can happily say I have no problems, none whatsoever, kept it in 2nd when approaching a national speed limit, have it the beanz and it revved freely and over 10,000.
Before doing all this I'd been looking at revs in particular gears so I knew my speed which works out for me as
2ng gear 4500 = 30mph
3rd 4500 = 40mph
4th 5000 =50mph
So I shouldn't have issues with cameras
I'm going to get a permanent battery line hooked up for the iPhone and then use an app for GPS speed, but I'm just very happy I now have a 120/60 front tyre and no performance issues!
Now this brings me on to swapping the front wheel,
As a lot of you know I have a Thundercat front end on my '03 FZS and I was always going to look into a way of swapping wheels but keeping the speedo drive, well I took the fazer front wheel off and the tabs had already snapped off the ceramic inner drive, so I used my dremel to cut out the notches to accept the thundercat front wheel drive tabs, lined it all up and put in the spindle, tightened it up and the wheel was stiff as anything, very little free movement, so I loosened it off but still stiff.
Ok, I thought, lets take the spindle out and have a look, the ceramic drive unit was now completely shattered in the housing, arse.
Well, I gotta go to work so figured I'd ride without the speedo, the only thing that had put me off changing wheels earlier was I heard people having problems without a speedo attached, ie it doesn't rev properly or over 10,000 or something anyway.
I just tucked the drive unit up the forks and cable tied it to the yokes, and I can happily say I have no problems, none whatsoever, kept it in 2nd when approaching a national speed limit, have it the beanz and it revved freely and over 10,000.
Before doing all this I'd been looking at revs in particular gears so I knew my speed which works out for me as
2ng gear 4500 = 30mph
3rd 4500 = 40mph
4th 5000 =50mph
So I shouldn't have issues with cameras
I'm going to get a permanent battery line hooked up for the iPhone and then use an app for GPS speed, but I'm just very happy I now have a 120/60 front tyre and no performance issues!
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