Weight of rear wheel

[Vishnu]

Is there anyone out there that would happen to know the weight of the 17" rear wheel? With the disk and splines or with out would be a big help on my weight watchers project.

Now that wasnt nice... I meant the bike, not the rider.

I am looking at a few different Suzuki 17" wheels, and I am trying to find the lightest one. I think the Stock 17" on the `80 gs might be king in this case.

cheers!
alan

[salty_monk]

The spoked alloy rim wheels from the Gs 1000 are the lightest unless you go aftermarket mag and most of those prob won't hold air after this many years

[tkent02]

Maybe he's talking about shafty wheels.

[Nessism]

The '82+ wheel is tubeless, although some of the early star mags were tubeless too although it's more of a crap shoot.

[Vishnu]

Yuppers!

I am looking for the weight on a shaft driven wheel.


Anyone..........Anyone...........

[Nessism]

You might want to be more specific: you want the weight of the early 17" wheel and the later, second generation, wheels?

[Vishnu]

Oh,

I didnt realize there was a difference. I would take any info I can get. Whats the difference? Is one lighter than the other?

Cheers
Alan

[Nessism]

I don't know which one is lighter but I suspect the later type based on the spoke design. Also, as already mentioned, you should get a tubeless wheel since that will save the weight of a tube, which is not trivial.

[bwringer]

This old photo of my GS850G shows the later style tubeless wheels, found on '82+ shafties:


Note how the spokes don't "cross".

In case you didn't already know, the GL and GK models all have 16" rear wheels, and the G models all have 17 rear wheels. There also may be minor differences between early and late models in the rear brake disk and spacing, which can usually be resolved with a few washers.

[waterman]

I wonder if the 83 650 Katana rims were any lighter. These are similar to the 83 and later 6 spoke design but made for shaft drives. I couldn't locate a picture to illustrate. I don't know if they used them on any other shaft models, I think most of the bigger models used the style like Bwringer's.

Anyways, they would be pretty scarce. A guy in my hometown had one that I would cruise by to admire from time to time. Unfortunately, someone stole it about a year ago. It wasn't in great shape, but it did have the mini console windshield that was unique to it.