Tire 240mm ....

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got some high tensile bolts and made some 3mm spacers for both front and rear sprockets. now have clearance to tyre and strength in the bolts.

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Hello everyone! I am a Buell fan from Italy. I wrote about buellxb to get information about the installation of 240 tire.
I have a 2005 XB12S with the old type of swingarm, what I'd like to see are pictures of the swingarm hellbound! I would like to know the extent of the offset used and what type of machining has undergone the rear pulley.
Can someone help me? my goal is to install a rim Widened to 8 "in order to mount the 240/45/17 and retain the original belt!
By my calculations it is impossible to do this whitout CUT the swingarm, as it did not change hellbound as he mounts a rim from 9 "???? [confused]
Help me!!
 
then, hellbound put photomontages? from the photos I've seen it has not been extended swingarm, the rear pulley is original, the same as for the belt .... how he did it????
according to the measurements that I took the swingarm must be filed within two points of 5 mm to fit it all! many things are not possible but then you can do, maybe hellbound was more good, and there is little successful filing of the swingarm and lowering the rear pulley 2 mm. also mount a 240/45/17 on stock rim ( 5.5" )is impossible without touching anything, to make us a try we did it!
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do not ask me why, but we did it :)
 
I have the 240 and the stock belt will not fit in the SS swing arm. Can you get information on how this person was able to fit a 240 tire in the stock swing arm and use the belt without widening the rear set as well.
 
The 240 setups that keep the stock belt with no swingarm modification have a wheel that is widened more on the left than the right. The tire is no longer centered on the chassis as a result.
 
The tire is no longer centered on the chassis as a result.
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exactly my point and i cant see why anyone would ever off set the wheel. I lined lasers up and there is no way a stock belt will fit without trimming the swing arm.
 
About 15posts up Hellbound explains how he used stock belt.
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Where are this post??? Can you explain it to me?

The 240 setups that keep the stock belt with no swingarm modification have a wheel that is widened more on the left than the right. The tire is no longer centered on the chassis as a result.
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I read this thing on another site famous, reporting this post:
Jens :
Posted on Wednesday, April 01, 2009 - 05:58 pm:
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8 "center goes with 11mm offsetpulley & belt.
The Hellbender have 9 "and 1/2" offset of the wheel. Nothing you will ever notice.
Jens

I Also have found this on the same discussion, you can read it :

Bads1:
Posted on Thursday, April 02, 2009 - 06:24 pm
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so I was right!!!
Edoardo,
Yes you are right if you use the 9 inch wheel like the Hellbender with the 1/2 ich offset pulley. If you use the 8 inch wheel you don't have to mod the swingarm because the wheel is one inch narrower and it gets a 11mm offset pully. There’s two ways to do this and run the belt. I've spoke to Jens and did the math. A friend of mine that fabricates was going to do my spacers and shim's. Like I said I just haven't pulled the trigger on doing it. Reread my post regarding the 8 inch wheel. I didn't disagree with you about the Hellbender. I'm saying you can run a belt and run a 240.






I'm not saying that the swingarm should not be changed, I just want to know,
if I can handle filing some point or if I have to weld a thickness of 20 mm on the side of the belt.
To my calculations is more difficult to get on a wheel 9 inch although it has 1/2 offset, rather than a 8 inch rim without any decentered offset!!
Ugh,
enough for me to have some detailed photos from Hellbound most accurate description to see if it is actually possible to do so without going crazy
:D
 
^ I think what you see in the above pic is just a 240 shoved onto the factory wheel. Because the tire is so "squashed" between the wheel lips it is most likely isn't actually much wider than a 200 would be on the same rim. And why it fits with little modification. Look at Fredys bikes. You can see the factory wheels are widened.

I'm the last guy to post criticism about modding of any kind. Do what you want. If you want a 240 tire, go for it. No offence to whoever's bike is in that above picture..... but just shoving a 240 on a 5.5" rim...... that is just dangerous. And squashing it so much eliminates any hope off proper handling.

My Diavel came with a 240. So a blanket statement of wide tire bikes handle like **** isn't universally correct. From how I understand the 17" Pirelli 240 was designed and tested in collaboration with Ducati just for that bike and is why it exists. The Diavel handles outstanding. But the rest of the bike is balanced for it as well. I could only imagine with some other geometry tweaks there would be no reason you couldn't make a Buell handle well with one as well.

But use the right size wheel and do the job right. Make sure the funds and skills match the ambition. Your ass is on the line. (Stepping off my soapbox):).

Side note. Fredy that Yellow and Black XB really looks nice. They all do but that one looks great. Nice Bikes.
 
dear nicholas900 I'm not here to teach anybody anything. mount a 240/45/17 on rim 5.5 "is crazy, as well as dangerous! nobody has to do it! we did it on a bet and you are right when you say the 240 on rim 5.5" is as wide as a 200, this is true. I wrote here because I want to know how to mount a 240/45/17 on the rim 8" if possible,
without extending the swingarm (old model)!
hellbound says he did?
want to know how I did :) I know that you have to do the work,
I want to know exactly what they are ..
 
nobody Can help me???
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What exactly do you want to do? All the info you need is in this thread.

Here is my bike, i can tell you for a fact with an asymmetrical 8 inch wheel, it is impossible to fit the stock belt in any XB swing arm with out cut notches in the swing arm. I had to notch my SS swing arm for the chain and the chain touches nearly touches the tire. Belt.... more notching.

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thanks for the advice,
I investigated on the internet. people who have mounted a 240 tire on old swingarm, they succeeded with the tylormade rim, which has a left offset of 1/4 inch (0.6 mm). Finally everything is clear!
Also I will do so(8" rim with 1/4 left offset, stock belt, stock swingarm, plus spacers for trasmission)!
Thanks to everyone for the tips! and thanks to onelogue
 

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