Ok - maybe this is a stupid question but I've been staring at this thing for almost a year....There is a foam rubber ring that is wedged between the front wheel spokes and the brake disc. Does anyone know why it's there??

Stop brake noise? Stop spoke noise at high speed? Protect something? Should I leave it there or save some weight and chop the thing out?

Jeff

 

It must be there for some reason, I just don't know what.

 

I can't see anything in the parts diagram for the front hub, wheel, or brake that shows anything like what I believe you're describing. I can't see anything like it on mine, either. Can you show us a pic?

 

My '09 has one.

 

show us a picture.

 

My totally uninformed WAG on it would be some kind of sound damping effort for the rotor/disc brake operation.

 

they call it a "DAMPER, FRONT WHEEL" on the parts fiche?

 

i thought it was a donut for the seat on long trips??

 

Ahhhh...I was looking at an '06 parts diagram. I keep forgetting that Kawasaki made this fancy-shmancy '09 and later model with all of these high tech doo-dads.

 

The 06 model had a floating rotor, I believe the 09 model had a solid rotor the foam ring is to dampen brake rotor noise.I have a 91 kx 250 wheel installed and with the solid brake rotor and there are some noises that are produced when you apply brakes hard at slow speeds!!!