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I was reading on another site that guys were talking about them. Anyone know if they will fit? I can get them cheap locally, they are easier for me to find than GS500 wheels, which I haven't had luck with. Thanks.

There's a lot more to it than just bolting them on. There are specific year wheels to use and some not insignificant machine work to do on the rear wheel. It has been done and documented though. I used to have the link to the ADV rider thread that covered the conversion. Maybe someone will chime in with it. Personally I can't imagine a simpler way and more bang for the buck than lacing Warp9 rims to your stock hubs. I have those on mine and they work great.

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I'm with you. I'd rather go this way for the tubeless tires..

Just need some machine-shop enabled individual to make a turnkey kit around it.. you send in the wheels/sprocket carrier and get back all the parts ready to go.

I didn't mean to suggest they go right on, I know I need to machine some spacers, inserts, and probably even the actual rear wheel itself. Luckily I am a machinist by trade and my boss has no issues with me using any of the equipment. As for the WARP9's, I would definitely go that route IF I wasn't planning on ever going offroad. I am keeping the stock wheels so I can switch back and forth. I just don't want to ruin my good offroad tires commuting to work.

OK there's these guys but I'm not sure exactly what they offer anymore.
http://home.exetel.com.au/bkm/cast-wheels-motard-drz/dr650-cast-wheels-motard-supermoto.htm

There's also this thread from southbay riders: http://www.southbayriders.com/forums/showthread.php?t=74033

And this comprehensive thread over on ADV rider http://www.advrider.com/forums/showthread.php?t=440054

ans specifically THIS POST on the breakdown of what has to be done:http://www.advrider.com/forums/showpost.php?p=10623108&postcount=95

He used SV 650 wheels but I think they are really close


I respect the DIY attitude but for me the Warp 9 rims on Stock hubs are the bomb. If you go this route keep us posted. If you got it down to an assembly line process I'm sure you could sell a ton of them.

Decided to go for it. I have a few pictures of me taking the first (and probably most critical) step.
Here you can see that I decided to go about the machining of the wheel using a rather old-school method. I didn't want to pull out any of the setups I currently had in the machines at work (we are an OEM, so our setups stay put for a few weeks at a time in some cases. I went and pulled an old rotary table out of storage that we have from our Moore G18 (a couple people may know what it is, but in the days of CNC machining it's basically a really sophisticated, expensive, paper-weight). Anyway I left the table (rotary) loose while mounting it and brought down the quill to center it up fairly close (really didn't need the table centered but I felt better doing it that way. Followed that up by turning a bar to use to center the bearings of the wheel to the center of the rotary table (this was the important part), then finally clamped the wheel to the table. Since I only needed to take off about 6 mm I decided to leave the bar in and not clamp the hell out of the wheel (very little cutting pressure). Wanted to just chuck the whole thing up in the lathe but the swing on the lathe is 8 inches and I needed 8.5 to get the wheel on there and still clear the ways. Anyway, here's the pictures of the progress so far. Once I am done everything I am going to do a single write-up with every step I followed and the sizes/dimensions for everything. I know all of this typing is hard to follow for someone else who may want to attempt the project.

Cool! Keep em coming!