wheel swap, for tread wear balance!

[Andrew]

Hi, just wondered if anyone here changes their wheels over [front to back] so the tread wears evenly , the rear tyre wears much more quickly than the front. ive just done it on my R67 , it also allows the brakes to bed in with the hubs too. Just a thought, be interested in what others think.

[niall4473]

I think it is not a good idea.
The wheels were made interchangeable so that you could carry a spare wheel on a sidecar outfit.
Swapping wheels about on a car is mainly to counteract the effects of camber on the tyres, by swapping the offside front with the nearside rear, for example. The R67 has both brakes on the same side, so the camber-effect would be the same.
Once a drum brake has bedded in, it would be a bad idea to make it bed in to a different drum, you would just be wearing away your linings and having sub-optimal brakes for no good reason.
Many motorcycle tyres have to be mounted opposite ways around front or back because of the stresses and the way the tyres carcass is laid up, so putting a front on the back without turning it around could be dangerous.
I would not bother.

[scottiesharpe]

Not recommended. Your brake linings bed into the drums and should stay mated for the life of the lining. Furthermore, the wear that you get on the front and rear tires causes strange handling when the tires are reversed. If a tire wears out, just buy a new tire. On most of my bikes, for every new front tire I wear out, I usually wear out two rears.

[skychs]

After replacing some broken spokes on my R60 (sidecar) i thought it was a good idea to swap (rotate) the wheels. The rear brakes settled in fine but the front brakes have never been the same. I wish I had left them alone.