Rear Sprocket size for a T500?

[celt_rock]

I took my rear wheel off tonight to clean it up and get my frame ready to powder coat and I noticed that my rear sprocket has 43 teeth... that doesn't seem normal? The sprocket on the engine appears to be the stock 15 tooth sprocket. What does that do to the bike... better speed, worse mileage? Reverse? When scoping out eBay to see what they had for sprockets it appears that all the Titan sprockets have 6 mounting holes, this one that I have has only 4. Can anyone tell me what's up with that?

[Fritz500]

The Titan came standard with a 33T rear sprocket and had 6 bolts holding it in place. Optional sprockets listed in the parts manual are 32, 34, 35 & 39.

Yours should accelerate a lot quicker, and rev its box off at cruising speeds. Gas consumption will be crap.

Definitely not a standard rear set-up.

[celt_rock]

Damn, that probably means I have to replace that whole section then... where on Earth would he have gotten it? I'll have to post a picture so you guys can see it and maybe identify it.

Thanks.

[celt_rock]

While this didn't scream anything foul to me at first glance, when I turned it over it read
"Kawasaki" underneath... damn. Does that mean the whole wheel is Kawasaki or are these
hubs interchangeable?

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[celt_rock]

After doing a little Googling (that sounds dirty) I discovered that I do indeed have the wheel for a Kawasaki KZ400 on the back of my Suzuki T500. Now I'm left to decide if I keep it or not. It's in pretty good shape and I am trying to re-use as much as I can and get away with without spending an arm and a leg but... I've just never like Kawasakis... it's like going in to get a heart transplant and after you find out your heart was donated by a Nazi or something... that may be over exaggerating a little.

I do have a GT380 that's all in pieces, I would use the rear tire from that but it's not in great shape with a couple of broken spokes and just in general a mess. Decisions, decisions...

[titan performance]

I wouldn't have thought a used rear wheel would be overly expensive to buy. I think they were the same right through the 500's life.

I fitted a 42 rear sprocket to one of my 500s in order to wheelie it off the throttle......the front jumped up readily enough, but the gear was too short to keep it aloft for any time. The bike would rev it's lungs out at a maximum speed of 100 mph, whereas with a 33 rear it would pull 120, (it's tuned).