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Question for the Zedophiles

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Can any of you Z appreciating types tell me if the disc brake rear hubs for the wire wheels have 36 or 40 spokes please?
If they have 40, does anyone have one for sale?
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that'd be 40-spoke rear hubs there kwak addict :kuda:

Unfortunately I don't have a spare one for sale, but US ebay is your friend - these come up pretty regularly, sometimes just the bare hub, sometimes a complete rear wheel.

Disc brake spoke hubs were only available on the Z1000A1-A2 (1977-78) to the best of my knowledge (at least in Oz - the US markets had all sorts of odd models - custom bikes with spoked 16" rear rims, that sort of thing, into the 80 and 81 years....perhaps even later.)

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Tops, thanx Gos.
Off to Ebay U.S. now.
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or call up Brisons ;)
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good pickup for $110 !! :kuda: - those spokes look like they will need a good clean-up though....but the rim looks in good nick.

Its worth putting in new wheel bearings as well, the existing ones are probably the original ones... :shock:

and, if you want to knock a bit of weight off that disc (cause they are heavy m'f discs) - they can be drilled - or you could source a disc from a later model Z1000MkII or Z1R MkII. Same bolt pattern, but lighter (drilled) discs. It will all depend on the application you have in mind....

ebay is a great place to source bits like this....

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