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The KZ1000 police rear wheels are wider than the civilian KZ wheels. I have one mounted on my 1980 1000 ltd. I will also be using one on my 750 twin too. It will take a bit of fabrication to center the wheel and mount the caliper but nothing complicated. The police wheels are cheep and they are marked for use with tubeless tires.

I am using a Zephyr 750 swing arm on my 1 980 1000LTD project. I have a pair of zrx1200 shocks too. I recently discovered this solution to the wider shock mounts needed to make it all work.
I will be making a pair for my project.

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80B4 wrote: The KZ1000 police rear wheels are wider than the civilian KZ wheels. I have one mounted on my 1980 1000 ltd. I will also be using one on my 750 twin too. It will take a bit of fabrication to center the wheel and mount the caliper but nothing complicated. The police wheels are cheep and they are marked for use with tubeless tires.

The police wheel is 18x2.5, that's narrower than the LTD wheel. They maybe wider than the Mk2/Z1R. cast 18" wheels.

I'm going to try and find out more about the V Star wheel. It would be perfect if it can be made to work.

True, the Ltd wheel is a 16 inch. Not many good tires available for those rims and I am not a fan of the chopper look.

Maybe look for a ZR550 swingarm, it's about 1" narrower than ZR750 arm IIRC. FWIW, it is about $500 to widen a wheel.

I know you're going for the mag wheels but the spoke wheels are readily available and would require much less fabrication. It looks like the zephyr had 150-70-17 rear wheel on a 4x17 rim and you could just find kz1000A model wire wheels all over ebay cheaply. you might be able to lace up a wider rim if you wanted an even fatter tire as well.

There don't appear to be any spoke rear wheels right now on eBay. Only for a later CSR. What do they usually go for? It'll be another 2-300 on top of that for a new rim and spoke kit.

On a side note, I found out that newer sportsters run 150/80/16 tires on 16x3 wheels. STOCK. If I did do the same it would limit me to cruiser tires. What makes a tire a cruiser tire? Sport tires are soft and stocky, touring tires are longer wearing, but what about a cruiser tire?

www.rimspec.com/motorcycle-wheel-widening-service-by-rimspec/


www.ricks-motorcycles.com/english/Raeder/Radverbreit.htm