1 Another wheel problem Sun Oct 22, 2023 7:03 am
Glyn
active member
Hi All,
My bike is a 1994 K1100 LT. I bought it as a project after it spent 4 years in the previous owners shed. It's covered a mere 24k miles (MOT's seem to collaborate). I've decided to start at the front and work my way back. The first thing I find seems to be an alarming amount of movement in the floating disks both up and down plus rotational twist on both sides of the wheel. On closer examination of the wheel itself I find a fairly large buckle (probably from a pothole) that makes the wheel run 6mm out of true for 2 inches on the outer edge of the rim on one side only. My wheel has 94 (year I presume) and 2.5 x 18 stamped on it. I head to eBay where I find a single used wheel for a K1100 (that is not ridiculously priced) that has the floating disks with it. My excitement was soon over by finding it is a 3 X 17 wheel. Being a little short for the K, I thought this might be an advantage to lower the bike by 1\2" and have a larger selection of tyres available but, reading what I can from this site and others, it would appear these wheels are not interchangeable. so what to do? Try to get my wheel straightened and look into new bobbins / disks, buy and fit the smaller wheel from Ebay, wait to see if anymore come up ( if without disks it would cost hundreds more by the time I've bought them if mine are not serviceable) or just follow the route of some others and fit USD Suzuki GXSR or Yam forks, wheel, disks and calipers if were talking these sort of prices anyway? The disks on my wheel do have a greater width than the 4mm shown as the service limit in the manual. Moving up, I find that the headstock bearings are notchy so have ordered new ones plus fork seals.
My bike is a 1994 K1100 LT. I bought it as a project after it spent 4 years in the previous owners shed. It's covered a mere 24k miles (MOT's seem to collaborate). I've decided to start at the front and work my way back. The first thing I find seems to be an alarming amount of movement in the floating disks both up and down plus rotational twist on both sides of the wheel. On closer examination of the wheel itself I find a fairly large buckle (probably from a pothole) that makes the wheel run 6mm out of true for 2 inches on the outer edge of the rim on one side only. My wheel has 94 (year I presume) and 2.5 x 18 stamped on it. I head to eBay where I find a single used wheel for a K1100 (that is not ridiculously priced) that has the floating disks with it. My excitement was soon over by finding it is a 3 X 17 wheel. Being a little short for the K, I thought this might be an advantage to lower the bike by 1\2" and have a larger selection of tyres available but, reading what I can from this site and others, it would appear these wheels are not interchangeable. so what to do? Try to get my wheel straightened and look into new bobbins / disks, buy and fit the smaller wheel from Ebay, wait to see if anymore come up ( if without disks it would cost hundreds more by the time I've bought them if mine are not serviceable) or just follow the route of some others and fit USD Suzuki GXSR or Yam forks, wheel, disks and calipers if were talking these sort of prices anyway? The disks on my wheel do have a greater width than the 4mm shown as the service limit in the manual. Moving up, I find that the headstock bearings are notchy so have ordered new ones plus fork seals.