So I'm having a good run of late ... few months ago I managed to grenade the gearbox in my DRZ tard which was good fun and the bike is now in a gazillion pieces to replace the offending + opposing gears and will eventually get turned back into a dirt bike. In the meantime I bought myself a husky SM610 as a replacement road tard and promptly had a car turn in front of me resulting in a rather sad looking bike and me flying through the air with the greatest *cough* of ease.... :bang:
So now i'm bikeless on the road again and drving around in the car ... but the KDX has been sitting in the shed not doing much as I haven't had much time or opportunity to get out and fall over in the dirt of late. So I figured what the hey, maybe the tard wheels from my DRZ would fit on the KDX and I could have a little fun at the local kart track in the meantime...
And what do you know but they fit ... after a fashion ;) The rear went in scary-easily. With the same spacers its just a smidge too tight, but only to the extent that it needs a bit of a tap with the mallet to move the wheel up and down its length of adjustment.
The front was a bit more work, but I found that some axel spacers turned the wrong way around made good carriers for the bearings, effectively mating the 20mm DRZ axel diameter to the 15mm KDX axel, and I made up some custom spacers from an old KR1 crush tube and some 20 cent 5/8" washers. The DRZ offset caliper bolted straight up and I just spaced the wheel to give decent alignment with the disc + caliper...
Off to the kart track on saturday to see how she goes :)
So now i'm bikeless on the road again and drving around in the car ... but the KDX has been sitting in the shed not doing much as I haven't had much time or opportunity to get out and fall over in the dirt of late. So I figured what the hey, maybe the tard wheels from my DRZ would fit on the KDX and I could have a little fun at the local kart track in the meantime...
And what do you know but they fit ... after a fashion ;) The rear went in scary-easily. With the same spacers its just a smidge too tight, but only to the extent that it needs a bit of a tap with the mallet to move the wheel up and down its length of adjustment.
The front was a bit more work, but I found that some axel spacers turned the wrong way around made good carriers for the bearings, effectively mating the 20mm DRZ axel diameter to the 15mm KDX axel, and I made up some custom spacers from an old KR1 crush tube and some 20 cent 5/8" washers. The DRZ offset caliper bolted straight up and I just spaced the wheel to give decent alignment with the disc + caliper...
Off to the kart track on saturday to see how she goes :)
