Removing Wheels

[TLRam1]

Wrench Session coming up anytime soon? lol

What do you need to have done?

[Charles S Otwell]

any links or how to remove the back wheel

Removing the rear wheel is pretty much what you see, once you've remove the brake stay from the brake drum and disconnected the brake rod, loosen the axle bolt and the chain adjusters enough to slide the wheel forward and slip the chain off the sprocket, then remove the the axle. If you need clearance to get the wheel out you can slip the shocks off and raise the bike until the wheel clears. If you working by your self you can lay a short (about a foot and half long)1x4 under the wheel to use a lever to help line the axle when your going back together. while you have it off, this is a good time to clean and check you sprockets, you'll have to remove a small cover to expose the front sprocket. Good luck, hope this will help.

[swader]

Thanks for all the help guys, I got the wheel off from the owners manual, got the new tire Metzler 150/90x15 (didnt have the 150/80 but fit in perfect) on the back, they tried to sell me for the front a 120/70 instead of a 120/80 so i told them to order it since i was switching out one tire at a time due to my lift situation. Wheel came out easy and wheel went back in even easier since i knew what i was doing. I was going to change out the sprocket to a 15 tooth but didnt know if i had to get a new chain or not, but when i put the wheel back in the lil gauge on the swing arm showed my chain was still good, i figured ide deal with it when i need a new chain, or if i can keep the same chain i might get the 15 tooth. would i need a new chain, or wold the wheel just sit bacl little bit further? should i start new thread lol...

[Curtis_Valk]

I hope you are not disappointed in the 150 Metzeler.  It is narrower than a 150 Dunlop by over an inch for some reason.  I had one and hated it.  It will make the bike fall into the corners much more abruptly.  Some folks like that but to me it felt unstable and I never got "in tune" with it.

Curtis

[drkngas]

I hope you are not disappointed in the 150 Metzeler.  It is narrower than a 150 Dunlop by over an inch for some reason.  I had one and hated it.  It will make the bike fall into the corners much more abruptly.  Some folks like that but to me it felt unstable and I never got "in tune" with it.

Curtis

The 150 Metz is great on the highway, very good in the rain and seems like it is going to last forever but I dont like it either for the same reason.

[swader]

Yeah i noticed it lastnight, i was dipping through traffic when this BMW came hauling butt past me, i figured ill play with him, well it was kind of the other way around when we got into a series of curves on the highway i had to slow down alot, it felt as if it were about to come out form under me. though when we got on a straight, i would murder him up to about 130 he started coming up behind me, though i knew bout 145 150 was my bikes limit, and by that time we were hitting more traffic... sorry guys but i like to go fast, hahaaha, havnt had the bike on the road in about 5 months so it felt amazing!!!