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GS 850/1100G wheel upgrades

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Colin Green

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Hello all. I have just spent a few fruitless hours searching for a pilot box and chrome base plate for my 1100G instruments but instead, found some final drive hubs for various newer models that look very similar to the 850 and 1100 G hubs.
List as follows:
Suzuki VS1400 Intruder
VS1400.jpg



Boulevard VL 800/C50
C50.jpg




GV Cavalcade 1400
GV1400.jpg



VS & VL 800 Intruder
VS800.jpg




Question......... In the interest of broadening tyre profile selections, has anyone tried mating wheels off the above models onto a 850 or 1100 G?
 
There was one project on here a while back, a lot of work but it was working out if that makes sense.... Haven't heard much about it for a while now.

Dan :)
 
Have you checked out the ratios on these later model diffs? The highest GS ones are the later 1100G's at 2.9-1.
 
I know that a GS850 rear wheel will mate to a VX800 rear end and vice-versa.

Why? I happen to have both in my garage, and was bored one day.

All this proves is that Suzuki NEVER re-engineers anything unless they absolutely have to, so sometimes there are some surprising coincidences.

For example, I also recently found out that a VX800 front fender bolts right on to a GS500.


With all that said, the swingarm and driveshaft setup is TOTALLY different on the two bikes -- the VX800 uses a much wider rear tire (150/70-17 vs 130/90-19) so there's not room for the newer wheel/tire on the older swingarm (the wheel mates up, but the tire hits the swingarm). And the wheel probably wouldn't be centered even if you could get it in there.

I bet there are some interesting substitutions and swaps possible, but you'd need access to a junkyard full of Suzuki shafties (my garage is starting to look like one...) to test them all out.
 
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