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on August 12, 2008 at 1:30:45 pm
 
 

 VSTAR 1300 Wheels

 

 


Front Wheel:

 

The Front wheel size is 16 inches in diameter and 3 inches in width. It will accept up to a 140mm tire.

 

 

 

Rear Wheel:

 

The rear wheel is also 16 inches in diameter but is wider at 4-1/2 inches. This wheel will accept up to a 200mm tire.

Unfortunately, this wheel is a one-of-a kind and no other motorcycle wheel (that we're aware of) will fit.

The wheel will also accept a Dark Side (car) tire up to 195/60-16.

 

 

The $6 Wheel Alignment Jig

 

 

 

With 20,000 miles on BlackMagic I'll bet I have screwed around with the rear

   wheel alignment 40 times in 2 years. I just could not get it right since having

   new tires installed and losing the factory alignment pre-sets.

 
I tried every suggested method of aligning the belts and tires and nothing

   worked right. Either the belt squeaked or the bike pulled to one direction or

   the other when I took my hands off the handlebars. 

 

 

 

That was until I discovered the $6.00 cure. I figured that the way the factory

   aligns the bikes is to clamp the two wheels in a jig until the back tire is

   aligned with the front, then they tighten up the back tires alignment bolts. A

   foolproof assembly line procedure. 

 

 

 

(This procedure depends on the type of bike stand or jack you use also)

 

So I invented a way to (almost) duplicate that procedure for short money. I
bought two 3/4" by 10' pieces of straight electrical conduit at the hardware

    store. With the rear of the bike jacked up and the bike in gear I zip-tied the

   conduit to the rear tires.

 

 

(You possibly could use bungee cords substitute for zip ties)

 

With this arrangement a very small adjustment on the rear adjustment bolts

   shows up as a very large movement of the conduit as it straddles the front

 

 

Fiddle with your adjustment bolts until the conduit is the same distance on either side of the

   front tires and your wheels are now in perfect alignment!

 

By Keith owner of BlackMagic

 

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