Stock Vs Aftermarket Wheels

[yorkie_chris]

No but it was on an SRAD with pretty near to stock geometry, and I've ridden one of those too.
Put it this way it was less difference than you'd get from putting a slightly different profile front tyre on.

I think half the racers using them is for either psychology, or that getting new wheels from suzuki if you're racing a brand new bike with no time for hassle of used spares is so expensive you might as well have aftermarket.

So really if you ride on the road and fit them its just because you're a proper show pony. Fair enough. I'll save them for my lottery win. I'd still consider the braking wheels though cos they come with blingy discs too.

[yorkie_chris]

And brave, because I don't think they're designed for continous use. Hell of a lot of reports of cracks and ones found cracked. Not heard of many sudden failures, but personally I am quite happy to brake from 100+ mph hard enough over big bumps and broken surface to get the rear skating and bottom the forks. In fact this is how I test forks. I would not lose that confidence that wheel is not going to snap for any amount of shininess!

Are they not? Thats pretty bad. You would think 2k wheels are designed to actually be used!

[yorkie_chris]

I think they're designed to be used around a racetrack for a few miles at a time and get regularly inspected, for this sort of use "as light as possible" is exactly the right design to have.

Look at aerospace, components are designed with definite fatigue life, again as light as possible. Abuse those design criteria and stuff starts to break.

[kaivalagi]

Voted stock...plenty good enough for the SV, if you went with a GSXR front end then GSXR wheels on front and back (with mods for the back) would be the way to go...

You have to ask yourself if you're not racing an SV based bike why spend an absolute fortune on extensive racing orientated wheels....better to spend the extra cash on decent suspension, tyres and zorst...or just save it for a part-ex and get a bike with all that stuff included standard...

Originally Posted by yorkie_chris

Not heard of many sudden failures

Here is a recent one where the wheel came away due to failure around the hub itself .

And as far as "Heated" discussion goes , it was far from it on my part , I merely said that the guy has other stuff to do first and wheels like that are not a priority . Then the lad came back with stuff about opinions which is fair enough , quite happy to listen to them but when they get a bit wrong then I say "go and do some homework" . The lad then gets to go and learn some new things . I`m not gonna go into long discussions about stuff I read about 20 years ago in Performance Bikes about Dymags going bang and setting on fire at the 24 hour endurance races as it probably isn`t as relative today as it was then . Things have moved on but not in any great leaps and bounds as far as the technology involved in making them goes

Originally Posted by yorkie_chris

I think they're designed to be used around a racetrack for a few miles at a time and get regularly inspected, for this sort of use "as light as possible" is exactly the right design to have.

Look at aerospace, components are designed with definite fatigue life, again as light as possible. Abuse those design criteria and stuff starts to break.

I have them on my Streetfighter, Dymags from 1993 ish, although they're apparantly the road version and not the full race version, I don't trust them as far as I could throw the damn things. I have a set of proper OE wheels ready to fit if I ever find something wrong, I might just pre-empt any failure and swap them anyway.

When Robert Dunlop's wheel exploded at the TT in 1994, it was a full race wheel and not a road one. Seems there was a massive grey area in whether a road race counted as road use.

As said before, a decent set of tyres will make a far bigger difference than a lighter wheel.