KZ1000 wheel building, pic needed.

I finally got my new rims and spokes from Buchanan's, laced up the front wheel, no problems. Then I started to lace the rear wheel and realized I have no idea what the spoke pattern is. There are 4 different kinds of spokes, so I'm a little baffled as this is my first time doing this. Can anyone help me out and post some close up shots of the rear wheel for a 78 kz1000? Thanks!

edit: I forgot to select the chassis section. my bad. is there a way to change it after posting?

DoctoRot wrote: I finally got my new rims and spokes from Buchanan's, laced up the front wheel, no problems. Then I started to lace the rear wheel and realized I have no idea what the spoke pattern is. There are 4 different kinds of spokes, so I'm a little baffled as this is my first time doing this. Can anyone help me out and post some close up shots of the rear wheel for a 78 kz1000? Thanks!

edit: I forgot to select the chassis section. my bad. is there a way to change it after posting?

Click the following link and scroll way down for some pics that might be helpful.

www.kawasakimotorcycle.org/forum/vintage...z650-cafe-racer.html

Good Fortune!

Here's another link:

kzrider.com/forum/5-chassis/268500-where...-spoked-wheel-strung

Thanks for the links Patton. I guess i should have included in my original request for a photo that i had a rear disc hub on my kz1000. this is where my confusion was coming from, because it is not a standard hub it is conical. I had to call Buchanan's to figure out what the hell was going on.

I figured i would include this info on here in case someone needs it in the future.

With a conical hub the rim is drilled specifically for the hub and needs to be orientated correctly to the hub. Normally they mark this on the rim. I got the rim, quickly discounted the writing on the side and sent it to be powder coated, which they covered up. The way the wheel-builder I talked to explained it to me is the larger diameter side of the hub will correspond to a more acute angle in the spoke hole in the rim. This is actually very apparent once I looked at it. There were actually only 3 types of spokes, they were in 4 packages though. There were 20 spokes for the small side, these are marked "A" in my photo, they are both the inside and outside spoke. The ones marked B are the outside spoke on the large side off the hub , and the ones marked C are the inside spokes for the large side of the hub


It was relatively easy to lace up because the small side of the hub has a slot to pop the spoke through with it already going through the rim with a nipple. I wish all hubs had this, it made it a breeze!