...I picked up this wheel off Ebay a few months back, and finally got around to cutting spacers and getting it mounted. I'm posting this for the benifit of those who might be interested in mounting a wheel like this (sport bike) to there [otherwise] stock 750. While this is a chop, the process would work on a stock bike. Out of the box the wheel lined up pretty well. However, there were two problems. #1-Spacers to center the wheel between the frame rails (or swingarm). #2-Axle was to small for the axle plates. The axle plates on my chop, and in the stock 750 swingarm are around 20mm or 3/4 of an inch. The axle for the FZR wheel was 17mm. I decided to kill two birds with one stone by creating (actually having one of my fellow class mates create) what I'm calling a stepped spacer, see the first pic below. The narrower portion fits in the axle plates, and adds about 1.5 mm on either side of the 17mm axle so it fts snug in the axle plates, while the larger poriton acts as the lateral spacer for the wheel. This was for the left side next to the sproket. The right side was easy, as the brake caliper arm acts as a lateral spacer. I simply created at spacer 1.5mm thick to act as a sleeve for the axle so it would fit snug in the axle plate. The last challenge will be to mount the brake caliper. This should be fairly easy as the caliper mounts to an arm that [as I said earlier] acts as a wheel spacer.
The wheel is from a 95 Yamaha FZR600. These are plentiful on Ebay, and those who want a modern sportbike wheel, this is a good choice as all you need to is make the spacers and deal with routing the break pedal and line. The tire is a 130, so it clears the chain by about an inch.
