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Bought a set of Oz wheels for the Falco and need to confirm that these are genuine light weight wheels

The wheels are all prepped and new tyres fitted. I have just weighed the wheels to compare to the Falco wheels and I'm disappointed in the weight difference over the standard falco wheels and tyres
Only difference is the tyres, old diablos on the falco and new rosso's corsa's on the OZ wheels.
1.1 kg difference on the front and 1.3kg on the rear

My OZ wheels have the OZ logo stamped into the spoke recess and Made in Italy etc, but nothing stamped on the rim
There are codes or date stamps also in these recesses
Can these codes be used to verify the wheels age etc
The wheels were from an early (non radial) RSVR, so I thought they would be the real deal.

Have I got it wrong?

https://www.ridersite.com/viewtopic.ph ... t&start=15

info in that thread to help

and maybe here

http://www.ozracing.com/technology_det/ ... RKING.aspx

Sounds about right. (The OZ-a-likes are actually heavier than the standard brembos that come with the Falco).

The change in gyroscopic forces is very noticeable - much easier to turn corners - particularly when "getting a move on".

The BST wheels are even better

I weighed mine back to back without tyres or discs/sprocket fitted and the difference was about 25 to 30%.

So how does one tell which lot of wheels they have? The threads linked too didn't provide any useful information in terms of marks/codes on the wheels

iirc the original oz wheels hav OZ forged into them - the aprilia owned copies have stickers....

So these would be the real light weight ones?

Yep...what i got

you shopping already carl??

Aladinsaneuk wrote:you shopping already carl??

Haha nah, just curious