Supermotard style road bike wheel choice?

[stevo as b4]

As a few people know im planning on putting my KMX200 back together and i want to run it with 17" wheels, and road tyres. I know this won't technically make it a proper supermoto, and it's still a 25year old trail bike with sticky tyres at the end of the day.

Imagine a DT125X and call it whatever you will, supermoto, funmoto, wannabe pretender, etc, but that's what i want to build.


Now do i go for a set of proper style SM wheels with new rims laced up to my std hubs, and then obviously change the suspension and brakes/uprate where required to take advantage of grippy tyres and no need to go off road at all?

Or can i do this: https://citroen-compactes.forumsclub.com/t440-le-kmx-200-cc-du-ch-gail

And still get a decent result? All im really asking is what are the advantages/disadvantages to adapting a set of cast alloy road bike 17" wheels to fit my bike?

I know looks wise a proper supermoto look with spoked rims is vastly superior, but im more interested in how the bike will ride than how it looks, and if road bike wheels will make it better or worse?

Lastly what tyre sizes does the Honda NSR125R use, and are they more than adequate for 35bhp? I know a fatter rear wheel will look better, but there is much cheapness in going the cast wheel route by comparison.

And some of the early supermoto steet bikes/Street moto's like the Gilera Nordwest, Freestyle and Cagiva Supercity all use cast wheels, and i think they look pretty cool!

[P.]

Spoked wheels are cooler

Talon hubs and Excel rims are favourites.

I have them on mine and run corsa 3 on the rear and bt021 on the rear currently. Great little toy

You can get them laced to your hubs, get them sent away and come back all good and ready to go.

The only advantage to non spoked is the fact you can have tubeless, I'm running tubes in mine

[Irn-Bru]

My 690 has spokes and is tubeless I prefer spokes any day, but it's personal preference, plus with spokes it'll keep the bike flexible should you want to go green laning or jump some stairs or whatever you're into.
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[garth]

Spoked wheels with ally rims are the bane of my existance.
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https://i666.photobucket.com/albums/vv23/WiNot_Rhencullen/Honda%20750/My%20bikes/Picture051-1.jpg

I have Talon hubs and 17" Morad rims on my XR-SM and it handles nicely.I have seen cast wheels on SM bikes but I have heard that they are quite a bit heavier than spoked wheels.

have a look through the pics here

https://photobucket.com/images/super%20motard/#!cpZZ1QQtppZZ16

https://www.supermoto.co.uk/
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[stevo as b4]

TBH having seen that im 100% back onto going for spoked wheels now. I just need to find the £550-600 it's going to cost me to have them made.

The other advantage is that i won't need to do any mods with spacers or moving the chain alignment to suit the sprocket carrier on a set of cast wheels. I can definately run a 140/70 rear tyre no problem, and might get a 150/70 in there with 3-4mm of chain-tyre clearance, so what width rear rim to i ideally want to be using?