Identify this wheel?

I am at the end of my tether trying to get a 100% answer on what this bloody wheel could be. I bought it advertised as a curvy front wheel. It is vastly similar.

Curvy wheel:



Wheel x :



The inner bearing on wheel x is smaller and the pattern of metal read by the speedo goes in and is only 2 notches instead of being 4 notches coming out. The curvy wheel is asahi tec 2 and this one is asahi tec.

Ideas anyone?

extra pic:


In this thread it was suggested it may be a bandit wheel but i cannot know for sure and it was suggested i just try to replace the bearings but because of the lack of a lip to smash the buggers out and the lack of a bearing removal tool costing ridiculous amounts of money i have decided to try to sell it on but i would love to know what to sell it as!

Im starting to think it may just be a TL wheel. But i could not for the life of me find any pictures. The candidates seem to be gsxr gsxf and tl. Still lost though.....

take it to a suzuki garage and see if they know

[TEC]

Originally Posted by Elltg

.... it was suggested i just try to replace the bearings but because of the lack of a lip to smash the buggers out and the lack of a bearing removal tool costing ridiculous amounts of money ....

Well no idea what the wheel is off but bearing removal is pretty simple, without any specialist tools

Ensure no circlip holding bearing in, turn wheel over, put a drift through wheel (not axle unless its an old thinner one) at an angle so rests on inside lip of bearing, tap drift with light hammer, bearing will pop out, turn wheel back over and repeat to get other one out.



You will normally find a large sized socket will fit the outer cage of replacement bearing just right for replacement

I did search this up how to remove and tried this for a good twenty minutes trouble is there is only about a fraction of a mm of a ledge to get at the inner ring in the first place!

cheers though. it has been suggested to me it could possibly be a kawasaki wheel because of the speedo so i got some research to do in that end now!

[yorkie_chris]

It's certainly not a TL wheel. The TL uses same wheel as the GSXR and it has no speedo drive just big bearings for a hollow front spindle.


And this bit is important, the speedo doesn't pick up on those notches in the wheel. Those notches just push the speedo rotor around, the sensor picks up the prongs of the speedo rotor.

So even if you do change bearings, that wheel won't work with your speedo.

[TEC]

Originally Posted by Elltg

I did search this up how to remove and tried this for a good twenty minutes trouble is there is only about a fraction of a mm of a ledge to get at the inner ring in the first place!

Which is all you need, the bit you may have missed though was ....

Originally Posted by TEC

Ensure no circlip holding bearing in....

I discoveredthat little beauty after spending a while trying to get bearing out of the Z750

The one on the right in the first picture looks as if it could be off an early Ducati Monster. I'll have a look around the web to see if I can find any close-ups.

EDIT -> Scratch that, just saw a close-up of the wheel stamping and what looks like a "SU" in the third picture of wheel x

Okay ill go have another bash at it. Im starting on wheel x because that way if i damage the bearing (in the words of ultravox) it means nothing to meeeee!

This has just gotten interesting!

I just noticed there is like a sleeve going from one bearing to the other on the inside. it turns freely and everything so i am guessing it is a spacer. I was looking at it and realised i only had a lip on one half of the bearing the otherside was covered and i was wondering how the spindle would go through if the hole wasnt straight and i found out i could push this sleeve to the side. Ill do a drawing in sketchup in minute to show you guys what i mean.