Wheel Building

Custom Bike Wheel Building, The Bike Vault Castlemaine, Central Victoria

When we build wheels at The Bike Vault, we only use quality DT Swiss and Sapim spokes with the upgrade options of butted spokes for a lighter competitive wheel.

For BMX wheels we have a wide range of coloured spokes available so your wheels can be personalised to suit you. We take pride in expertly designing wheels with colours and patterns of your choice, including not only spokes but also nipples, hubs and rims.

When building wheels we use four aspects of truing to produce a durable and strong wheel:

• Lateral True
  The side-to-side wobble of the rim as the wheel spins. This aspect is the most critical especially for rim brakes
• Radial True
  This is the amount of up and down wobble. If the wheel becomes out-of-round, it wobbles up and down with each revolution. In severe cases this will affect brake pad placement and can be felt by the rider as a bump every wheel revolution.
• Rim Centering AKA Dish
  This refers to the rim being centered in the frame. If the rim is offset in the frame to either side it may be difficult to adjust the brakes. Severe cases of poor centering can also cause handling problems, because the rear wheel will not track behind the front wheel.
• Tension
  This is simply the tightness of the spokes.

We true every wheel brought into the shop for repair and every wheel on new and used bikes in the workshop before they hit the floor. Whether you ride BMX, MTB or road you should always get your wheels professionally checked regularly.

With every wheel build it is important to bring it back after a few rides for a re-tension and true. This serviced is carried out free of charged with every wheel built by the experienced and talented team at The Bike Vault.