Topic: GSXR wheel with Harley mid(?) glide wheel

[Seans405]

Hello all, I recently have been piecing together a GSXR front end. I’ve seen people posting about using narrow glide hubs, and I believe I had purchased one (so it said) on eBay. Unfortunately a lot of the photos I’ve seen on here and elsewhere, I haven’t gotten a goood photo of the hubs people have used. Here is a picture of the hub that I had gotten. It ended up coming with a 1 inch bearing on the inside, but I still traded it out for the GSXR bearings. When looking it from dead on, it was hard to tell if the rotors (hayabusa) would line up with the caliper. I’ve looked up narrow glide on the inter webs, and they look a bit thinner, which is why I’m starting to think this is actually a mid glide? With that being said, 2 questions:

1) is this a mid glide hub?

2) has anyone done a 2006 GSXR 600 front end with a mid glide wheel hub, and would like to share some insight

[Just John]

I've never heard them called "mid glide".  That looks like a dual disk narrow glide hub found on Sportsters and some of the big twins.  I've never seen one used on a GSXR but have seen them used on a wide variety of Japanese and European motorcycles.  A friend has one modified to use on the rear of an early 20s Harley Davidson too.  The biggest issue I've seen with them is interference between the brake calipers and the wheel spokes.  This can even be a problem with Harleys.  The fix is usually relocating the brake caliper with some type of adapter.  The 1" bearing indicates it is from a 2000 or later bike.