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Rear wheel modification
Hello,
R15v1 owner here in Vietnam. Spending lots of time on the track, and having some rear wheel/tyre issues. It seems that there is no viable 100series rear tyres available for the track, so I had fit a 120. However, due to the narrow rear rim, the tyre is pinched into a profile that is too tall to provide a good contact patch for drive out of corners.
I'd like to fit a wider rear rim, and it looks like the 3.5 rim from an Exciter will fit, but are there other options? Currently, the Exciter rim sits off-center in the swingarm. Is there a simple fit from the Yamaha parts catalog to fix this, or will I need to fit a different swingarm?
Last difficulty- the v1 was never officially sold in Vietnam, so original parts are difficult to find.
Thanks!
Hello,
R15v1 owner here in Vietnam. Spending lots of time on the track, and having some rear wheel/tyre issues. It seems that there is no viable 100series rear tyres available for the track, so I had fit a 120. However, due to the narrow rear rim, the tyre is pinched into a profile that is too tall to provide a good contact patch for drive out of corners.
I'd like to fit a wider rear rim, and it looks like the 3.5 rim from an Exciter will fit, but are there other options? Currently, the Exciter rim sits off-center in the swingarm. Is there a simple fit from the Yamaha parts catalog to fix this, or will I need to fit a different swingarm?
Last difficulty- the v1 was never officially sold in Vietnam, so original parts are difficult to find.
Thanks!
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