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« on: September 08, 2022, 11:40:28 PM »
Pump the brakes turbo! There’s a lot going on here that you need to consider in order to be able to swap wheels quickly.
Rim size. FXE has 17” rims, 320mm front brake rotor (which uses a different caliper and mount)
The FX which uses spoked rims are 18” rear and 21” front which is better suited to dirt.
Rear is a straight swap but you’ll need another pulley and rotor unless you want to swap those to your other wheel.
Rear wheel will be approximately
$300 rim
$50 rotor
$150 pulley
+ tire, tube, rim strip, hardware and air!
Your around $6-700 USD, depending on what tire you choose.
The front is more complicated and therefore expensive.
You should be able to find a 17” knobby or whatever on the stock rim but it’s not going to handle like a purpose built dirt weapon.
Still $300 rim, $80 rotor, tire, etc.
Or use a stock FX wheel with a 320mm rotor. Nobody makes one that I can find but one could be custom made or modified from a supermoto rotor.
If you had FX fork legs, rotor, caliper and wheel you can do a straight bolt on swap. May want to get the master cylinder as well which requires opening up the brake system, bleeding etc. this will be even more expensive and will take more than 10 minutes.
I don’t know what exactly you want to do on this bike so I won’t suggest any specific tires. However some dual sport tread on the stock 17”s would probably be a blast to take anywhere.
Hope this helps helps in some capacity
Say10