A wall chart identifying the proper torque specifications for hubs and spoke wheels and for drum and rotor assemblies is provided by Webb Wheel Products. A wall chart identifying the proper torque ...

How do wheel depth, spoke count, and spoke material affect speed? We're back in the wind tunnel to find out ...

When trying to explain the physics behind driving a car, you can go the charts-diagrams-and-calculations route or you can go the tinkering-until-something-breaks route. When it comes to answering the ...

This is not intended as a complete “how to” article on re-spoking a motorcycle wheel. Instead, the intention is to relate the problems I encountered along the way when I recently re-spoked a set of ...

Pez readers write in pretty frequently, asking about “those crazy spoke wheels”, so we decided to see if there was something more to them than just looking different. Turns out there’s a method to the ...

Truing is the act of adjusting the tension of a wheel’s spokes to make it perfectly straight and round. Truing is a normal part of any wheel’s life. Wheels are subject to extreme forces, from ...

Rebuilding spoke wheels is one of the rights of passage in the “custovation”* of an old bike. That convoluted three-dimensional puzzle with an alloy hub at the center of a spider web of steel, wrapped ...