Front wheel spacers?

senna · 2013-03-20 15:36:04

here is a crappy cell phone pic. http://img194.imageshack.us/img194/5445/img20130320200006849.jpg (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/194/img20130320200006849.jpg/)

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Mar 21, 2013 | 09:39 AM

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here is a crappy cell phone pic.

Mar 21, 2013 | 09:43 AM

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here is a crappy cell phone pic.

They look nice now, but you know that bare aluminum will quickly stain and become dull, especially in that area of the wheel. Maybe you can get them chromed somewhere.

Mar 21, 2013 | 10:19 AM

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They look nice now, but you know that bare aluminum will quickly stain and become dull, especially in that area of the wheel. Maybe you can get them chromed somewhere.

Thanks, yes I am aware of the issues with keeping them clean. The rotors I will be running will be polished as well. So we will see how it goes.

I don't commute on my bike, I need my truck for work, so, If it's not that bad after a year I'll leave them. If they look like **** I'll get them chromed.

Mar 21, 2013 | 11:23 AM

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I have a set from ***** Shiny, They cover the rotor bolts and look great to me. http://www.willyshiny.com/SPECERSTOURING0810ABS.html

I like the looks of these... don't happen to have a photo of them do you?

Mar 21, 2013 | 11:33 AM

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I like the looks of these... don't happen to have a photo of them do you?

these are the black ones

Mar 22, 2013 | 09:38 AM

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Here is a photo of the left side, this is essential a cover, the ABS sensor is the spacer.

Mar 22, 2013 | 09:44 AM

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This project has peaked my curiosity on how the the ABS bearing is special. Does it have a trigger of some sort for the sensor to pick up a signal indicating wheel travel?

Mar 23, 2013 | 03:51 PM

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This project has peaked my curiosity on how the the ABS bearing is special. Does it have a trigger of some sort for the sensor to pick up a signal indicating wheel travel?

it has a gap in the spacer for the ABS sensor to fit.
There is nothing special about the spacer itself.

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Mar 23, 2013 | 05:25 PM

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This project has peaked my curiosity on how the the ABS bearing is special. Does it have a trigger of some sort for the sensor to pick up a signal indicating wheel travel?

The ABS bearing is 3 mm thicker than the non-ABS side. This extra thickness accommodates the encoding mechanism that is read by the ABS sensor ring to determine wheel rotation specifics.

The ABS bearing is on the left:

On the ABS side of the front, the ABS sensor acts as the actual spacer for keeping the wheel in position. The ABS chrome and black spacers sold by HD , WS, and others serve only to "cover" the ABS sensor ring on the front.