sv1000 swingarm for sv650?

Does anyone know if you can put the sv1000 swingarm on the sv650? I would be interested as then I could also put a 180 rear wheel....not for performance but for looks really...anyway, I thought changing the swingarm would be the easiest and "safest" way of putting a bigger wheel instead of making difficult mods to the existing swinarm.

Cheers

[jambo]

I would think not. But the good news is the swing arm's plenty wide enough for a 180 tyre. While you can physically squeeze one on the standard rear wheel (and some people have) I would fit a different wheel as it'll be wider and not pinch the tyre to a point that it's fairly distorted. For the curvy a Bandit 1200 wheel fits with some spacers, the pointy I'm not so sure. but I'd be surprised it it was much different.

From my experience wider tyres just cost more....

[yorkie_chris]

You can just put a 180 rear on the standard rim, at least on the curvy, but it handles like a bent wheelbarrow, and also doesn't look massively different.

Then again, the tyres were also mismatched, unbalanced and squared off so not really a good comparison. But, it was free which made it tolerable for a week or so.

Originally Posted by yorkie_chris

You can just put a 180 rear on the standard rim, at least on the curvy, but it handles like a bent wheelbarrow, and also doesn't look massively different.

You could, but it's ill advised and not many tyre fitters would be willing to do it.

[yorkie_chris]

Yup, only reason I considered it was because I needed a bike and there was nowhere open.

Completely daft to do that just for the sake of doing it.

Can anyone confirm if the 1000 swingarm fits the 650 pointy?

[Speedy]

I want to do this mod too.

Someone has done it, on the .org too!!

I'll find the link....

[Speedy]

http://forums.sv650.org/showthread.php?t=130407

above is the thread i was thinking of, so yea it does fit.