Benzine
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| posted on 28/11/11 at 07:12 PM |
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anti-banded steel wheels
You know when people band steel wheels to make them wider, could a similar thing be done to make them thinner to take a motorbike tyre? If so I could
fit the now-narrowed steel wheels to car hubs from a small car, would be cheap and wouldn't have to work out how to fit bike wheels. I'm
not sure if the lips of car and bike wheels are similar (i.e. the bit where the tyre forms the seal) Any idea if that would work?
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designer
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| posted on 28/11/11 at 07:20 PM |
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Just use a narrow wheel.
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Dingz
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| posted on 28/11/11 at 07:22 PM |
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How about space saver wheels?
Phoned the local ramblers club today, but the bloke who answered just
went on and on.
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phelpsa
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| posted on 28/11/11 at 07:34 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by Benzine
You know when people band steel wheels to make them wider, could a similar thing be done to make them thinner to take a motorbike tyre? If so I could
fit the now-narrowed steel wheels to car hubs from a small car, would be cheap and wouldn't have to work out how to fit bike wheels. I'm
not sure if the lips of car and bike wheels are similar (i.e. the bit where the tyre forms the seal) Any idea if that would work?
No  The barrel taper.
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v8kid
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| posted on 28/11/11 at 07:42 PM |
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The answer is here
http://www.carbibles.com/tyre_bible_pg4.html
if you can understand it!
Search under profiles
Cheers
You'd be surprised how quickly the sales people at B&Q try and assist you after ignoring you for the past 15 minutes when you try and start a
chainsaw
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Benzine
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| posted on 28/11/11 at 09:55 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by designer
Just use a narrow wheel.
No car wheel I can find is thin enough T_T
quote:
Originally posted by Dingz
How about space saver wheels?
Definitely worth looking at, still a bit too wide for what I'm wanting, if the tyres for them are rated so they'll pass IVA then they
could be another option. I think I might end up using wheels from a bike with a rear swing arm that takes bolts and has the same pcd as a car hub.
Shame as bikes and bike parts are silly expensive
phelpsa & v8kid, thanks for that info!
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owelly
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| posted on 28/11/11 at 10:20 PM |
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What size, offset and pcd are you looking for? If I have any kicking about, I don't mind whopping one in the lathe and waving the mig at it to
see what occurs.
http://www.ppcmag.co.uk
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MikeR
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| posted on 28/11/11 at 10:37 PM |
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Bear in mind your tyres have to be rated to faster than your vehicle can do - this is normally based on what your speedo is rated to. Whilst bike
tyres will be ok, space saver tyres more than likely won't.
Also are bike tyres designed to always have their forces pushing downwards (hence when they corner the bike rolls to the side). In a car the tyre has
to resist a sideways force as the tyre is always flat. Are you sure that a bike tyre can resist that same force?
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hillbillyracer
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| posted on 28/11/11 at 11:15 PM |
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I have actually done this due to the correct wheel being unavailable, all worked fine & half the welding of a banded wheel.
To be fair though it was on a David Brown!
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Benzine
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| posted on 29/11/11 at 11:43 AM |
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Thanks for the replies!
quote:
Originally posted by owelly
What size, offset and pcd are you looking for? If I have any kicking about, I don't mind whopping one in the lathe and waving the mig at it to
see what occurs.
Thanks for the offer  I'm not sure yet on pcd, offset etc. It was going to be a case of go to the scrapyard and see what they have 
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