Morning All...
Ahh, the joys of a proper computer and keyboard and not just my thumb on an iphone...now I can get into x10 more trouble
Keith, my wheel hasn't any wear on the end, so that bearing is not 'exposed'...but here's a thought before you commit your
toasted wheel to the recyclers.
OK, from memory I think that exposed bearing is a 'triple' bearing...So (if I had this wheel):
Option 1) Is what I already have in mind for my bike if I ever get home into my shed
Would be to remove the this bearing (and all the other 'bits'), and the wheel could be
turned (in an lathe), so that (a) the badly damaged end is cleaned up to return a flat surface, then (b)
turn the the mating surface that the flange rests on down to approx 1/2 the thickness it is now and back to just below the lip that has the 5 threaded holes that receive the attachment screws for the damper retaining plate. A tolerence fit sleeve (with an '
L' profile), then could be turned up (with a grove to receive an 'O' ring), and fitted to the now
dressed wheel. I would then drill 4 x 5-6mm holes through the sleeve and down into the now flat surface along side the bearing and fix 4 unbrako srews into the sleeve / wheel and countersunk 1-2mm and fill the countersunk with some aluminium putty / Devcon and hand fettle any excess off.
This could easily be done in a 3' split bed Miford lathe.
Option 2) a little more radical
Would be to machine the wheel back in much the same way as describes above, but so that now only that a 'double' bearing could only be accommodated within the wheel. I then with 'fit' a 'single' bearing within the drive flange so that now
that 1 kilo drive flange is now support on the axle and not the wheel hub...
something Honda ought to have done in the first place!
Now the only
hand-brake to this idea I can see at this stage is the amount of metal there is to work with that could accommodate this combination of 1 x 'double' and 1 x 'single' bearing as the combine widths of these 2 bearings is greater than a single OEM 'triple' bearing. I know this as I bought a wrong bearing somne years ago and it's still sitting in my shed.
As I said before I have toying with these possibilities in my head for a while now, the latter is I concede a bit fanciful as the ST unsprung rear wheel weight is stupidly heavy and more thought here, me thinks
Just a thought,
Ciao, the can :-)