This question/observation is mostly for normanzb and specbebop, since they have these wheels, especially normanzb, since he has his installed. I saw on an unrelated video that the GS's OEM wheels have three quasi-wedge shaped absorbers between sprocket hub and the wheel. I recalled when I unpacked and inspected the KKE/VMX wheels that they provide five wedge shaped absorbers to go between their sprocket hub and their wheel. Given this difference, I decided I was past due to do some KKE/VMX wheel fitment tests
For my first test, I removed my OEM wheel to have the OEM axle available and confirmed that the axle goes through the sprocket hub and wheel cleanly with, IMO, reasonably tight clearances once I add a bit of grease on the currently completely clean KKE/VMX axle hole.
My second test was to try fitting their sprocket hub on their wheel with their absorbers in place; when I do this, everything lines up ok, but the sprocket hub does NOT go in with just a bit of hand pressure. In contrast, my OEM sprocket hub goes into and comes out of the OEM wheel, with the OEM absorbers installed, with just a bit of hand pressure. I'd love to be able to say that my absorbers are used and therefore fitment was easy because they are worn, but my GS has only four miles on it from the dealer's pre-delivery road test, so that's not it. Also, when I try to rotate the OEM sprocket while installed with the absorbers on the OEM wheel, there is zero movement; the OEM absorbers are perfectly filling the space between the sprocket hub and the wheel.
When I use a small rubber mallet to tap the KKE/VMX sprocket hub on to the KKE/VMX wheel with absorbers in place, it goes in slightly each time, but I stopped after I realized it was so tight that I might not be able to get the sprocket hub back out. This has me thinking that I should trim the absorbers slightly, but before I do that, I thought I'd query KKE/VMX and you guys, especially normanzb and specbebop.
So, normanzb and specbebop, did you encounter this issue when you mated up the sprocket hub, absorbers, and wheel?