Talking Motocross Wheels with Dubya USA
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- čas přidán 22. 08. 2024
- Motocross wheels are sometimes only seen as a blingy upgrade to your ride, but they are as much a performance part as any other piece on your machine. If you want to know about motocross wheels, you'd be hard-pressed to find a better wealth of knowledge than John Anderson. We swung by Dubya USA to talk all about the ins and outs of wheels, starting with different kinds of hubs, to spokes, to rims and how they all work together.
I wanted to watch the whole video but the audio sucks and the "beats" just made it worse. Not typical Vital quality.
I also forgot - Let's talk about suspensions for a second: more unsprung weight....that's making for less sensitive suspensions as both, the forks and also the rear shock have to move over 1 kilo/ 3 lbs more up & down...a heavier wheel can't follow the ground as good as a light one. It's as easy as that.
Weight on wheels is the most overlooked area! A typical Talon wheelset weighs up to 2,5 kilos/ 6 lbs more than a stock wheelset !!!! Wheels must be accelerated to get them spinning...heavier wheels need more energy to get up to speed ---> you actually LOOSE POWER with heavy wheels!! There is absolutely no benefit of running a CNC'd hub. Or have you ever seen a broken cast hub??? They do CNC as the mold for doing cast hubs would be much too costly. CNC is cheaper ;) Spokes: again - why would the OEMs offer expensive double butted spokes when they could put cheap straight-gauge spokes instead?? Did you ever ask yourself? Cheap straight gauge spokes are cheap and much heavier and much less unforgiving. You are more likely to break a straight gauge spoke than a double-butted spoke. The flex the double-butted spokes offer is needed to absorb peak stress! Stock rims are indeed softer but again-they are also lighter and i can only insist you guys keep rotating mass as light as possible. A typical set of aftermarket wheels weighs just so much more. You see guys concerning more about color options than about performance....for me an absolute waste of money and one of the biggest downgrades on your bike!
6 lbs? Lol. 3 lbs more than stock wheels? Lol okay bud. Hahahahaha. 6 lbs total. This is so far off from the truth it’s not even funny.
@@seaeff6428 No kidding...i weighed them!
@@NinoScale a stock crf front wheel only weights 7 lbs to begin with. the rear weight around 9 lbs. Stock wheels aren't 3 lbs lights each. You're saying that talon hubs with excel A60s are almost 40% heavier than stock? You're crazy. Unless your bike comes stock with magnesium hubs and titanium spokes you're wrong. Cast vs billet is still just aluminum CC to CC of material they'll weigh the same. The hubs would have to weigh nearly double those of stock so they'd have twice as much aluminum. The weight of rims spokes and nipples are nearly identical to stock as most manufactures use an Excel or D.I.D. for stock anyway. Sorry but you're wrong.
I have a pair of Talons on my SM, and there's no way they're as heavy as you're saying.
@@thepassionofthegoose5472 just weigh them! But SM wheels are different again. But anyway - Talons are way heavier than stock Honda CR / CRF wheels!
Would it be possible to get a set of Dubya wheels for a 91 Honda cr125r? I'm looking for new wheels for my bike but every wheel i have checked out does not seem to work for my bike. The problem I'm having is my front and rear wheel bearings are too small to fit the hubs. And after 27 years my hubs are about shot.
You can try and find a local machine shop that can make you bushings, you can press fit into the clapped out hub. They machine it a little, make the bushing and loctite it with press fit tolerances. Then your stock bearings will fit
Sometimes, you can remove the bearing, take a punch and a hammer, and peen the O/D are all around the circumstance, then put some press fit loctite on the O/D area and press the bearing back in. Not a permanent fix, but will buy you some time.
Look into other stock Honda hubs, some have the same bearing O/D and it’s a matter of the proper I/D for the axle size.
the sound was not very good how far away was the microphone
and it sounded like a echo
Precisa colocar legenda em português !! Tem muitos brasileiros que seguem vocês.
the audio makes me want to puke
Highly un-informative…