Veefer800Canuck Posted January 27, 2007 Share Posted January 27, 2007 http://www.bikersoracle.com/vfr/forum/showthread.php?t=75729 :thumbsup: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hobie1dog Posted January 27, 2007 Share Posted January 27, 2007 I wonder what the actual weight difference is between the NR and the stock wheel? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Contributer SAFE-T Posted January 28, 2007 Member Contributer Share Posted January 28, 2007 I wonder what the actual weight difference is between the NR and the stock wheel? If the rest of the bike is any indicator, despite being made of lighter material it will actually be heavier. <_< Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Contributer Dutchy Posted January 28, 2007 Member Contributer Share Posted January 28, 2007 I wonder what the actual weight difference is between the NR and the stock wheel? With the amount of bragging rights that comes with a NR wheel, it will be heavier fer sure :thumbsup: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hobie1dog Posted January 28, 2007 Share Posted January 28, 2007 I know that the NR wheels are not the lightest or Thorsten Durbahn's 750 which was featured in PB magazine would have had them on it. He used PVM wheels. His bike ended up weighing 345lbs. Just at 100lbs less than stock. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Contributer fallzboater Posted January 28, 2007 Member Contributer Share Posted January 28, 2007 If the rest of the bike is any indicator, despite being made of lighter material it will actually be heavier. <_< What are you trying to say, that the NR was too heavy, too slow, and too expensive? They do make great museum pieces, though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Phantom Posted January 28, 2007 Share Posted January 28, 2007 I'd be most surprised if the NR wheel is lighter than any VFR wheel, esp. the 4th Gen. Looking at JZH's pics it has a multi-piece hub assembly which probably uses steel for absolute strength so the actual spoke/rim section can be a bit lighter? But the 4th Gen wheel has a highly machined hub section which looks like it marries strength with low weight. I'm sure he'll post up weight info when he can. I'll post the relative weights of 3rd and 4th Gen rear wheels (minus tyres) in the next day or two. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest vfrrider Posted January 29, 2007 Share Posted January 29, 2007 Oh, Safe-T, where are you? JZH needs you to airmail him a drive hub, custom made and all. Make him a real deal. And If he can't handle it, let me know. Maybe that NR wheel is just too much for him. Maybe I should make him a deal and take it off his hands before he drives himself crazy? Larry VFRrider Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Hurricane249 Posted January 29, 2007 Share Posted January 29, 2007 Oh, Safe-T, where are you? JZH needs you to airmail him a drive hub, custom made and all.Make him a real deal. And If he can't handle it, let me know. Maybe that NR wheel is just too much for him. Maybe I should make him a deal and take it off his hands before he drives himself crazy? Larry VFRrider no worries! GLL429 got him covered! anyone who can make a chain using only master links should have no trouble installing a wheel How in the world do you make a chain out of master links? :goofy: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Contributer FotoMoto Posted January 29, 2007 Member Contributer Share Posted January 29, 2007 WOW, that dude is in for over a $1k USD for an OEM rear wheel. Granted he'll probably be the only the VFR rider in the world with one and that's way cool but getting marchesini's or the like which GREATLY lessen unsprung weight and would have been money better spent IMO. Now let's look at it from a posers point of view on display at the local hangout: What's more street cred: A carbon fiber OZ wheel or an OEM NR750 unit? hmmmm? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Contributer blkrabit Posted January 29, 2007 Member Contributer Share Posted January 29, 2007 He can have the NR wheel; I'll take the motor... :thumbsup: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Contributer SAFE-T Posted January 29, 2007 Member Contributer Share Posted January 29, 2007 What's more street cred: A carbon fiber OZ wheel or an OEM NR750 unit? hmmmm? The RC45 wheels from Ben Bostrom's bike that I missed out on Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Contributer JZH Posted February 3, 2007 Member Contributer Share Posted February 3, 2007 Oh, Safe-T, where are you? JZH needs you to airmail him a drive hub, custom made and all.Well, maybe I could use some 12mm drive pins, if he's got em!I really should be posting this kind of techie stuff on VFRD, but I hardly ever visit anymore (last visit was, er, last August) and I read the UK site every other day. VFRD is definitely where the hard core VFR techies hang out. (Even if some of them can't keep their gobs shut, eh Murray?!?) For the record, I have no idea how much the NR wheel weighs... Scratch that, I do have an idea, about 4kg, but this is not an accurate figure. I don't have an accurate-enough digital scale, so I had to use the digital bathroom scale (weighing me and then me with the NR wheel on my head), but the results were not totally repeatable. Yeah, it's a silly amount of money to spend on a bit 'o bling, but once I'd seen the wheel for sale at a do-able price, I just had to grab it. Then the only question was, what to do with it, and although all of my bikes probably qualify as "projects" in one way or another, my already slightly modified FP was the clear choice. As I've said elsewhere: Er, well, it is lighter, but that's hardly the point. Fitting a distinctive part from a legendary bike of which only 300 were ever made is just cool. Like the neon lighting and full-fur body kit I've already installed... B) I'm now sure I can use the RC30 hub; I just need some 12mm drive pins and a friendly machinist to install them! Ciao, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Phantom Posted February 4, 2007 Share Posted February 4, 2007 I really should be posting this kind of techie stuff on VFRD, but I hardly ever visit anymore (last visit was, er, last August) and I read the UK site every other day. VFRD is definitely where the hard core VFR techies hang out. (Even if some of them can't keep their gobs shut, eh Murray?!?) :unsure: Sorry about letting that cat out, John... glad to see you back on VFRD though :thumbsup: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Contributer SAFE-T Posted July 31, 2007 Member Contributer Share Posted July 31, 2007 I could use some 12mm drive pins, if he's got em! Matter of fact I do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Contributer JZH Posted July 31, 2007 Member Contributer Share Posted July 31, 2007 NOW you tell me? NOW, so do I! UK NC30 guru Rick Oliver modded my RC30 hub and machined me four 12mm drive pins to go with it. The NR wheel's mounted to it now, but that's as far as I've got, and it will be at least two months before this project progresses, as I'm off to Dubai for work... Out of curiousity, what other wheels use 12mm drive pins? Cheers, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest nominal_squid Posted August 1, 2007 Share Posted August 1, 2007 Out of curiousity, what other wheels use 12mm drive pins? Don't Triumph SSSA rims use 12mm pins? I was under the impression they did, as well as the Ducatis. Not sure though...I've sold my single-nut hub a while back and lost all my research in spindle and wheel fitment in a move somewhere <_< Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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