Products

Hand Crafted Racing Wheels

Racing wheels are what can take you over the top and to the line.

The Right Gear carries performance wheel sets from HED, Mavic, Bontrager and Zipp. We also provide warranty support for the same. With all these fantastic wheel systems, why would anyone want a handmade wheel anymore?

The Craft

In today's world there is just something "right" about riding a pair of wheels made by human hands out of aluminum, stainless steel, carbon and titanium that allows a man to propel himself down the road. Each spoke is individually selected, sized, lubed, cut, threaded and fitted to the hub. Every spoke nipple is lubed as the spokes are laced in the rim. The wheel is side loaded four times during the build to remove torsional wind-up and make the wheel stay true. As a final touch, a thread adhesive is applied to insure extended reliability.

The Technology

We use Mavic, Zipp, Fir and Sun rims. Hub availability is almost limitless, although we will steer you away from fragile stuff for daily use. Our truing stands are Park and DT Swiss with dial indicators to measure trueness and runout.

We also use dial indicators to measure spoke deflection; a better measure of wheel strength than spoke tension (ask Jim about the difference if you've got an extra hour). Finally, the WD2 (Wheel Detonation Device) is used to sideload the completed wheel to a known, measurable threshold (using calibrated torque loads) to seat both nipple and spoke head to insure durability.