Tested: Ride Engineering Wheel Spacers

The Ride Engineering Front and Rear Wheel Spacers have a lipped edge to help keep them attached to the wheel when it is being removed or installed back on the bike.

How many times have you taken off one of your wheels only to see one or both of the spacers fly off into the area of your garage that  resembles the Twilight Zone? You know the place, it’s the region where things seemingly disappear forever! Even worse is when you’re ready to reinstall the wheel, and have it all lined up and the disc is in between the pads, and you’re relying on nothing more than some grease and seal friction and a prayer to prevent them from taking flight once again.

Fortunately, our buddy Adrian over at Ride Engineering has developed a product that helps to alleviate this problem. The Ride Engineering Wheel Spacers have a flange on the inner edge that helps to lock them into the seals. Installation isn’t much tougher than finessing them past the dust seals, which then do a much better job of holding them in place than the stockers. Can you still knock them out of place? Yes, but they definitely make the process of changing a wheel easier, or at the very least, less aggravating for those of us who don’t change wheels for a living.

To boost the bling factor, all the spacers are available in colors to match Yamahas (blue), Hondas (red) or Kawasakis (green), as well as red for each brand. Suggested retail is $31.95 per pair, front or rear.

Are these a must-have mod? Not really, but they do a solid job of reducing one big headache of bike maintenance, and that automatically moves them ahead of plenty of pretty-but-otherwise-non-performance-enhancing accessories on the market.

For more information regarding Ride Engineering Products, you can go to:
www.ride-engineering.com