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And 12 hours later, we have a wheel. Holy crap...... I completely underestimated how complicated this would be. Took me about 5 tries to get it right, and I still have absolutely no idea what I was doing wrong either time. Can’t wait to do the front lol. Also, I boogered up the paint real good. Not too thrilled about it, but I’ll touch it up. Live and learn
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It’s the 46 spoke. Kinda rare, but still available. I believe they only came on US model heritage specials for a couple years. They are a pain in the but for sure. The front wheel is 64 spoke, so it should be interesting.


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The SR185 Exciter uses the same pattern, but they put gaps in the rim between every 8 spokes. It was a Yamaha early 80s thing.
 
irk miller said:
The SR185 Exciter uses the same pattern, but they put gaps in the rim between every 8 spokes. It was a Yamaha early 80s thing.
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Their engineers really outdid their selves. It was particularly stressful just finding a new rim. Mikes xs was the most reasonable. I wanted to go with Buchanan’s and excell rims, but wow


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Progress has been slow. I did prime and paint the front wheel. Did some wet sanding on it today, and I’ve got to lay down another good coat. Then 48hours to cure. Then I’ll ruin that paint job lacing it. ‍♂️ lol. Painting is the worst. I wish I liked it


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Tires purchased today. I beat my head on the table on this one, but I finally pulled the trigger. The good thing is, if I don’t like them they didn’t cost too much. I do think they will look appropriate, I just hope they perform well. That being said, the xs650 isn’t too much of a beast so I think they’ll be fine. Got some YZ pegs to swap out that rubber slop
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Tires in. Still working on lacing the front wheel. It has turned into a real pita. Haven’t really found any useful info about lacing the heritage special wheels, so I keep going for it and coming up short. I keep thinking they sent me the wrong spokes. Any tips would be appreciated


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Sends some pics of what your issue is. There are a few things that a pic would reveal, about what is causing what.
 
Right now I’ve got the wheel back disassembled. I do have a shot of my last attempt. I took a shot of the inside of the hub. On this attempt everything lined up until the end. The last outer spokes wouldn’t reach no matter what. I tried everything. Also, some of the inners lined up to long.
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Hers a shot of my first attempt. Pretty sure on this one the rim was backwards, as most of the outers on one side wouldn’t reach.
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I’m going off of a photo of the original front wheel, which was certainly laced by the previous owner. I struggled with disassembling it, so there’s a possibility it was laced wrong. I really don’t know. I do know the bike had a NASTY speed wobble. The bearings didn’t look all that bad.
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irk miller said:
Sends some pics of what your issue is. There are a few things that a pic would reveal, about what is causing what.
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On the first photo, the outer on one side has a set of inners on the opposite side. Is it possible that this is the problem? Should there be inners and outers in the same holes on both sides? I’m sure I thought of that, but it’s a mind numbing process


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Looks to me that in the second pick, your spokes on opposite sides of the hub are one hole off. One thing that I do, and you may already know this, is start with the valve stem hole. You have six holes on the hub split by the valve stem, the forth hole is your first spoke that mounts to the rim next to the valve stem hole. You mirror that on the other side, but you have to build your inners before you flip it. I can't tell where your valve stem is on your built rim, but it appears it's possibly in the same orientation as the PO rim. If that's the case, you're way off.
 
irk miller said:
Looks to me that in the second pick, your spokes on opposite sides of the hub are one hole off. One thing that I do, and you may already know this, is start with the valve stem hole. You have six holes on the hub split by the valve stem, the forth hole is your first spoke that mounts to the rim next to the valve stem hole. You mirror that on the other side, but you have to build your inners before you flip it. I can't tell where your valve stem is on your built rim, but it appears it's possibly in the same orientation as the PO rim. If that's the case, you're way off.
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The valve stem appears to be in the same place. Does the orientation of the hub matter in correlation to the valve stem, or can I just pick 6 holes?


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