Foam ring between spokes and disc
 

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:D? 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.:D

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!!!