• Hi everyone,

    As you all know, Coffee (Dean) passed away a couple of years ago. I am Dean's ex-wife's husband and happen to have spent my career in tech. Over the years, I occasionally helped Dean with various tech issues.

    When he passed, I worked with his kids to gather the necessary credentials to keep this site running. Since then (and for however long they worked with Coffee), Woodschick and Dirtdame have been maintaining the site and covering the costs. Without their hard work and financial support, CafeHusky would have been lost.

    Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working to migrate the site to a free cloud compute instance so that Woodschick and Dirtdame no longer have to fund it. At the same time, I’ve updated the site to a current version of XenForo (the discussion software it runs on). The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

    Unfortunately, the new software version doesn’t support importing the old site’s styles, so for now, you’ll see the XenForo default style. This may change over time.

    Coffee didn’t document the work he did on the site, so I’ve been digging through the old setup to understand how everything was running. There may still be things I’ve missed. One known issue is that email functionality is not yet working on the new site, but I hope to resolve this over time.

    Thanks for your patience and support!

Relacing wheel question

tropicoz

tropicoz

Husqvarna
C Class
I really want to put a 5" rim on the back of my SM, but the cost of a decent set of wheels is ridiculous. I tend to buy established brands like Excel for their quality and customer service, but spending over $1500 is out of the question at this time. Can I relace the OEM hub with an aftermarket rim? What might I expect to pay for the lacing?
 
Looks like I can manage a Q2 in there with decent clearance. I'll probably get a roller for the chain, but seeing as this SM will get mostly commuter miles and a mountain rail here and there, I'm not overly concerned with clearance. Definitely will do all the homework before I turn a wrench though!
 
Would be good to find an actual Q2 mounted on a 5" rim and measure it. Post a message on a sportbike forum and see if someone can measure one for you.
 
I run the 160 Q2 on my 630 with the stock rim and there is realistically an 1/8" clearance on each side of the tire. Its pretty tight.
 
http://www.buchananspokes.net/
Buchanans will quote you as well. Good source.

Lacing a wheel is not difficult, so if you sourced a rim and got a set of spokes to fit it is a do-able DIY project. I have done at least a dozen of them. Clamp the axle in a vice and set up something to use as a trueing guide. Buchanans will cut and thread custom length spokes if you need them. Expect to pay around $300 for rim and spoke set. Some of the chinese rims are cheaper and some work pretty good, like WARP9 - have 'em on a WR250 yamaha for offroad and they've been fine - half the price of excel.
 
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