Help Me ID THIS WHEEL

Hey here are the pics all fixed

I believe that's an OEM wheel from HD, back on the 1984 FXRDG model bikes. (Known as the Disc Glide.)

I've seen 2. One on a friend's Sporty (1986) and another hanging on the wall for sale, at Schaffer's HD, in Orwigsburg, PA.

There were allegedly only 863 made.

I believe you're correct. Dick Allen wheel. Here's a 15 inch. They came in 16" as well.

http://www.jockeyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=73974

I don't think it's a Dick Allen wheel per se, I think it's a Cragar Quick Trick wheel somebody else did in the same style as one of Dick's wheels. Dick didn't make any 16" Quick Trick wheels (there weren't any 16" Quick Tricks), he made the 15" rears, and a few 17 x 2.5 fronts. Also, Cragar at the time advised that they were a "race only" wheel, and not recommended for street use, and they were tube-type wheels. They weren't sealed like the Centerlines were.

Dick used four H-D mid-star ball bearings in his hubs, the hubs were two piece - a pair of bearings in each wheel hub half. The wheel hub above is also done in two halves, but the bearing on the L/H side appears to be a tapered roller set up like an earlier FXWG hub with the snap retainer ring, inner cover disc, and small spacer that sits in the wheel seal would have been done. The sprocket is a Circle Ind., you can see the blue/silver sticker.

The bearing you see on the R/H side of the wheel isn't the wheel bearing, it's the sealed bearing that Grimeca used in the center of their rotor carriers for support. I'm pretty sure that's a Grimeca rotor on there, measure it, I'll bet it's 10 1/4" in diameter. Grimeca made a bunch of different style center carriers and rotors. Just about everybody who was doing the solid wheels, mag wheels, and the 12 spoke wheels - Dick Allen, Perf. Machine, Hall, Morris Ind., Cal Mag, etc all used the same components as far as rotors and sprockets go.

The allen bolts that hold the wheel halves together look to all be non original one's. You can still get the replacement OEM bolts/washers/nuts bagged up in a set - most of the time with the Crager installation sheet with the torque specs - on Ebay all the time for reasonable money.

So, the next thing you need to do is take the hub apart, and see exactly what you have in there as far as bearings goes. My guess is that it's somebody's copy of a DA wheel.

Here's another 15" Super Trick. I don't think it's a Dick Allen wheel though, adapter looked pretty rough.
Larry T

15" and 15 bolt & nuts..same as yours.. ( however the inner dish on those look kinda different..)

When you posted that press release, Danny, I remembered ADE. It was Bert Altmann, Syd Furman, and Howard Aronson. When they started ADE, the first product they made was the Star injector, based off of Mel Fenwick's original design of the Fenwick-Lake injector.

In the late 70's, Sifton somehow acquired ADE, and Sifton marketed all the Star wheels and brake calipers/rotors under the Sifton-Star brand, then just the Sifton name was put on the parts. The "Detail Freak" VL-framed bike featured twice in Easyriders had a Sifton-Star built Cragar Quick Trick wheel on the back the 2nd time around.

But, Star also used the bearings from the Harley mid-star hub in their Crager wheel hubs like Dick Allen used, but they used 3 bearings instead of 4. They didn't use tapered wheel bearings or sealed bearings. The below photo is the Advanced Design crew in '77.

As always, good info Rich !

Here's the Detail Freak 2nd time around..