Rear Wheel Removal

kwai Chang · Jul 29, 2008

I'm considering a FJR. I have never owned a shaft drive bike before. How dificult is it to remove the rear wheel? It may be a deal breaker if I have to take the bike to the dealer for tire installation.

Silent · Jul 29, 2008

Shafties are alot easier to take the rear off than chain drive bikes. I can pull my rear tire in about 10 min.

Clickie

evilmedic13 · Jul 29, 2008

So easy my dog does it for me. Seriously, it's easier than taking one of my Tahoe. If that isn't easy enough for you

kwai Chang · Jul 29, 2008

Silent said:
Shafties are alot easier to take the rear off than chain drive bikes. I can pull my rear tire in about 10 min.
Clickie

Great info. Thanks for the link.

otrfjr · Jul 29, 2008

Errr, define "easy." Fail to get the pinch bolt at the right torque when putting it back on, and chain, belt, shaft, paperclips, duct tape whatever your preference for final drive and things get messy really quickly. In terms of actually removing the rear wheel of the FJR: it is very straight forward. See https://www.fjrtech.com/getdbitem.cfm?item=19.

Tom is... Just an Old Boy · Jul 30, 2008

kwai Chang said:
I'm considering a FJR. I have never owned a shaft drive bike before. How dificult is it to remove the rear wheel? It may be a deal breaker if I have to take the bike to the dealer for tire installation.

I'm about to do my second wheel removal, (thisd set of tires) and it's not really any more difficult, just different.

Tom in Central CA...where do you live?

eg23232 · Jul 30, 2008

Silent said:
Shafties are alot easier to take the rear off than chain drive bikes. I can pull my rear tire in about 10 min.
Clickie

....except for single side swing arms. My Triumph rear wheel is off with one nut. Literally, it takes about a minute or less to get it off. I love sssa's!

But yeah, the FJR isn't that difficult, and there's plenty of how to's here.

meosborn · Jul 30, 2008

Errr, define "easy." Fail to get the pinch bolt at the right torque when putting it back on, and chain, belt, shaft, paperclips, duct tape whatever your preference for final drive and things get messy really quickly.

This wasn't a good enough definition for you otrfjr?

Shafties are alot easier to take the rear off than chain drive bikes. I can pull my rear tire in about 10 min.

If that's the case maybe this will help a little more. It's easy since you don't have to worry about chain tension and wheel alignment. You just unbolt it and take it off.

But, I guess you provided valuable information for those that don't know that they should pay attention to how they take something apart so that they can put it back together correctly.

kwai Chang, just follow the instructions and you shouldn't have any problems.

kwai Chang · Jul 30, 2008

Tom is... Just an Old Boy said:
...where do you live?

Southeast Tennessee....Just north of Chattanooga between Soddy Daisy and Dunlap.

charismaticmegafauna · Jul 30, 2008

kwai Chang said:
I'm considering a FJR. I have never owned a shaft drive bike before. How dificult is it to remove the rear wheel? It may be a deal breaker if I have to take the bike to the dealer for tire installation.

It's a valid consideration.....

BTDT.... I bought my first shaft-drive bike, a '57 BMW R-50, from Long's Open-Air Motorcycle shop in Miami FL. When it needed a rear tire I took it back there -- thinking: I don't want to get involved in all that rear-end mess. Well, I watched them R&R the rear wheel and thought: heck, that's nothing -- I could'a done that!

So, I understand the question....

Hope you got your answer.

Karmak · Jul 30, 2008

Helps to elevate rear of the bike a bit more than only on the stand-put the center stand on a wide board to get the rear higher so you can jimmy the tire out from under the rear fender-without the bike being up a bit higher in the rear it's a tight squeeze-also be sure to line up the ABS sensor and rear hub correctly (align the marks) when re-installing tire. Make sure your disks (brake) are far enough apart to get the rotor in w/out struggling (make sure you don't touch the brakes before putting the tire back on. Some people use a little cardboard trick or whatever else comes to mind to help feed the rotor between the disks. This has always been the only tricky part for me. I always carefully widen the space between disks beforehand (lots of ways to do that). Blah blah, etc. etc.

-Real important-when done-pump the brakes a few times before going out!!!

My rear fender is shortened-so no worries for me!!

Wolf_in_Cheapclothing · Jun 20, 2013

Rather than risk a NERPT I figured I would revive a long dead thread. I can't get the fjrtech links to open. I get a redirect to https://click.sureonlinefind.com which won't open. So, who has a working link?

escapefjrtist · Jun 20, 2013

Site has changed to FJRTech.net.

--G

Wolf_in_Cheapclothing · Jun 21, 2013

escapefjrtistThank you very much.

Tire change was incredibly easy. Even my tools cooperated and were easily found in the tool box. It did suck to change out a PR2 with only 8500 miles due to a slow leak. The gummy worm patch only worked for about 300 miles.

Flylooper · Jun 23, 2013

eg23232 said:
QUOTE (Silent @ Jul 29 2008, 07:46 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Shafties are alot easier to take the rear off than chain drive bikes. I can pull my rear tire in about 10 min.
Clickie
....except for single side swing arms. My Triumph rear wheel is off with one nut. Literally, it takes about a minute or less to get it off. I love sssa's!

But yeah, the FJR isn't that difficult, and there's plenty of how to's here.

SSSA's just look weird on bikes, though. Prob'ly why I never bought a BMW. Those things mess with my head when I see them on the highway.

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