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Old 01-25-2009, 09:56 AM
cal_tony cal_tony is offline
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Bearman.

I have not tried the Husky wheel, but my assumption would be that they would fit with minimum effort. Most of the late model Huskys come with the 25mm bearings, so just make sure that's what you get. As I had mentioned previously, the late model KTM hub is bored to 47mm and could take 17 20 25 and 30mm id bearings. To use the KTM hub you would have to remove the stock 30mm bearings and replace them with 25mm bearings. New bearings cost me $4 each. You would also have to make a new inner bearing spacer with an id just slightly larger than 25mm. It needs to be the same length as the spacer it replaces. The Honda CRF uses a 25mm axle on it's rear wheel so you could cut down the rear Honda inner spacer to the proper size and it might be long enough to also provide the outer spacers. I just bought a length of alum tubing and cut it down to make the inner as well as the outer spacers. Other than the hub size, the biggest advantage to using the KTM hub was the easy availability of 320mm rotors from just about any catalog.

Like I said, I used the DRZ sm wheel because I had one. The important things regarding the use of a hub other than a GG hub is that it takes a 20mm axle and the sprocket to rotor spacing is close. I would not advise the use of the KTM 5" hub on a GG. There just isn't enough room.

If you have any further questions,
feel free to ask.

Tony
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