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GS 500 wheels on a 90's XT?
As per the title, ive seen mention of here about fitting Suzuki GS 500 wheels onto the XT 600 and have seen a pic of it on here but the bike in qustion had different calipers. Does anyone know if the GS wheels are a straight fit and can they use the original calipers?
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gs wheels have a different axle sizes to the xt and spacers would need to be made and the brake disks also are different sizes, front calipers mount on different sides too.
the rear has a different sprocket offset and the xt swingarm is not very wide and might give some clearance issues
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Ah well thats that idea out of the window then!
Are there any cast road wheels that would be a straight swap? or any 18" or 17" wheels for that matter!
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its not impossible to do with the gs wheels just needs some work.
if it was easy everyone would be doing it
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Very True! 
Unfortunatly I dont have the tools neccesary (or probably the skills for that matter!)to make up spacers, brackets for calipers or any of the other fabrication work that would probably be required which was why I was looking for an easy option to getting smaller wheels with proper road tyres (intending on using the bike for commuting once its finished) instead of the big nobblies that are currently on it!
This may be a really stupid idea but would it be possible to take an 18" rear rim from an XT600 and lace it to a front hub to give an 18" front wheel? Not sure about width etc?
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Could you not just buy more road biased tyres for it or are you after the super moto look ?
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