Getting Cross-Spoke Motorcycle Wheels Built

[XB12X]

I have recently bought an immaculate 2020 Yamaha SCR950 with 4,200 km on it, a bike I have wanted since they came out. The one thing I don't like about it are the spoke wheels which take tubed tyres. I want to run on tubeless. It must be possible to get cross-spoke wheels made in Thailand. Has anyone any ideas?

[papa al]

Kindly elucidate what you mean by cross-spoke wheel.

Maybe the same as on papa's TY350.?

One double-length spoke replacing two?

 

[Damrongsak]

Yamaha has, or had, a spoke wheel rim with flanges.  I don't know which model or if they would fit yours.  They do require a different hub. 

 

 

There's other styles: 

 

https://adventure-motorcycling.com/2019/03/14/tubeless-oem-spoked-wheels/

 

[XB12X]

Thanks. It is the bottom of these designs I'd be interested in. My old BMW R1100GS had them. Now, so many motorcycles do, even low-capacity, cheap Chinese bikes. 

Edited November 11, 2022 by XB12X

[Neilly]

12 hours ago, XB12X said:

Has anyone any ideas?

Some of the Triumph guys have switched over to Kineo rims...how deep are your pockets? Total Price: £2,289.55 (£2,747.46 Including Inc. VAT at 20%)

 

https://www.bikehps.com/acatalog/Kineo-Wire-Spoked-Wheels-Yamaha-SCR950-2017-onwards.html

[Kwasaki]

Phone up Red Barron m/c shop in Bkk and ask if they can help.

[OneMoreFarang]

15 minutes ago, Kwasaki said:

Phone up Red Barron m/c shop in Bkk and ask if they can help.

Or better visit them.

http://www.redbaronbangkok.com/

 

[papa al]

Try searching

"convert motorcycle rim to tubeless "

on YT.

????

[XB12X]

3 hours ago, Neilly said:

Some of the Triumph guys have switched over to Kineo rims...how deep are your pockets? Total Price: £2,289.55 (£2,747.46 Including Inc. VAT at 20%)

 

https://www.bikehps.com/acatalog/Kineo-Wire-Spoked-Wheels-Yamaha-SCR950-2017-onwards.html

I certainly wouldn't be importing them.

[seedy]

You will be hard pressed to find anyone in LOS who is doing this.

Due to the high cost and limited market very few takers.

Near 117,000 THB

For myself, since I had my fist set of mag wheels, I would never go back to spokes, unless on a pure dirt bike.

[Kwasaki]

2 hours ago, XB12X said:

I certainly wouldn't be importing them.

Why don't you just stick with what the bike has if they weren't any good they wouldn't sell em, nothing wrong with tubed tyres.

[papa al]

A.   They look cool.

2.   The price of cool can be high.

[XB12X]

2 hours ago, Kwasaki said:

Why don't you just stick with what the bike has if they weren't any good they wouldn't sell em, nothing wrong with tubed tyres.

You are far more likely to have a puncture with tubed tyres. At speed, you have a real problem. 

[XB12X]

3 hours ago, seedy said:

You will be hard pressed to find anyone in LOS who is doing this.

Due to the high cost and limited market very few takers.

Near 117,000 THB

For myself, since I had my fist set of mag wheels, I would never go back to spokes, unless on a pure dirt bike.

117,000 is a very specific guess. I'm sure it could be done, though. I wouldn't mind a set of high quality mag wheels on it.

[seedy]

8 hours ago, Neilly said:

£2,747.46 Including Inc. VAT at 20%

 

27 minutes ago, XB12X said:

117,000 is a very specific guess.

As per posts above

[papa al]

3 hours ago, seedy said:

Near 117,000 THB

= ~ value three or four of papa's bikes.

5 5

[Kwasaki]

4 hours ago, XB12X said:

You are far more likely to have a puncture with tubed tyres. At speed, you have a real problem. 

I have never experience that only slow punctures occuring so then you change the inner tube.

[XB12X]

17 hours ago, Kwasaki said:

I have never experience that only slow punctures occuring so then you change the inner tube.

I have. Only going 40 mph on a KTM 950 Adventure, but the tyre went down fast, and my back wheel went from side to side. Easily controlled but I wouldn't have liked to have been doing 80 mph. 

[digbeth]

tubeless rims are readily available here, Takasago EXCEL brand has lots of local presence, easier if you don't need to source a compatible hub and reuse your existing hub

[Kwasaki]

1 hour ago, XB12X said:

I have. Only going 40 mph on a KTM 950 Adventure, but the tyre went down fast, and my back wheel went from side to side. Easily controlled but I wouldn't have liked to have been doing 80 mph. 

Well it can happen with tubeless tyre just as quick so what does that lead you to think. 

[Hummin]

On 11/12/2022 at 11:44 AM, papa al said:

Try searching

"convert motorcycle rim to tubeless "

on YT.

????

And funny enough, just showed up one hack in my feed after I read this post. Several videos how to convert your rims.

[XB12X]

20 minutes ago, Kwasaki said:

Well it can happen with tubeless tyre just as quick so what does that lead you to think. 

It is far less likely with tubeless rims. It has never happened to me and I have done over 250,000 miles.

[XB12X]

1 hour ago, digbeth said:

tubeless rims are readily available here, Takasago EXCEL brand has lots of local presence, easier if you don't need to source a compatible hub and reuse your existing hub

Thanks, digbeth. I'll have a look.

Edited November 13, 2022 by XB12X

[Kwasaki]

34 minutes ago, XB12X said:

It is far less likely with tubeless rims. It has never happened to me and I have done over 250,000 miles.

So change the fligging bike to a bike that runs tubeless tyres plenty of bike the same as that one. 

[XB12X]

20 hours ago, Kwasaki said:

So change the fligging bike to a bike that runs tubeless tyres plenty of bike the same as that one. 

Thanks for being so helpful.