Wheel Fanatyk

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The home of Wheel building lore, Morizumi spoke machines, and P&K Lie truing stands, and much more.

Friday, December 23, 2011

Thanks for Your Support in 2011

Best wishes from Giovanni, Antonio, and Ugo - la famiglia di Ghisallo
Posted by Ric Hjertberg at 12:57 PM
Labels: About Wood Rims, Ghisallo Chapel, Ghisallo Wood Rim History, Reflection

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What's Wheel Fanatyk?
We're an online store and wheel building resource.

We represent Morizumi Spoke Machines, P&K Lie truing stands, Whitefish wood tools, and our own Tensiometer. We sell other clever tools, memorabilia, and some useful components and accessories.

Visit our new store, here.

To learn more about wheel technology, history, techniques, and news, click any topic in our "Contents" section, just below.

A nice profile at USA Cycling from 2011.

Please contact us through our web store with advice or suggestions. Thanks for your interest.

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Contents

Morizumi spoke machine
About spoke machines
About the Morizumi machine
Close look at the machine
A Morizumi setup
Man behind the machine
Video demonstration
New ergonomic knobs

P&K Lie Truing Stand
Introduction

Wheel Fanatyk Tools
Whitefish Wood dishing tool
More on the Whitefish dish tool
Wheel Fanatyk Tensiometer
Tensiometer output cable

Wheel Building
Tying and Soldering
Advice for better building
Determining spoke lengths
Tension Gauge features
Bill's Russian Truing Stand
More on the Russian Truing Stand
Mastering Wheel Dishing
20 Tips #1 - Turning Nipples
20 Tips #2 - Lubricating Nipples
20 Tips #3 - Stop Spoke Windup
20 Tips #4 - How to Pre-Stress
20 Tips #5 - Be a Wheel Whisperer
20 Tips #6 - Build f/Right to Left
20 Tips #7 - Replacing Spokes
20 Tips #8 - Know Your Elbows
20 Tips #9 - Alu Nipple Success
20 Tips #10 - Using a Dishing Tool
20 Tips #11 - Stuck Cogs
20 Tips #12 - Tuning the Ride
20 Tips #13 - Feeling Lucky
20 Tips #14 - Setting Spoke Path
20 Tips #15 - Spin Those Nipples
20 Tips #16 - Clinchers & Tubulars
20 Tips #17 - About Tire Sizes
20 Tips #18 - Your Own Stand
Tension Made Easy
More About Spoke Lengths

Tech
What the Future Holds
Road bike bar height
Pedal finesse
How tubulars are made
Tips for tubular tire use
Tubulars vs. Clinchers
Spoke Fatigue Ideas
Elasticity
How Spokes Work
The Wheel's Six Tricks

Events and Media
Interbike '07
Race Mechanics Clinic '08
Handmade Show '08
More on the Handbuilt Show '08
Oregon Manifest Show '08
Handbuilt Show '09
Taipei Show '09
Great reviews
Handmade Show '10
Race Mechanics Clinic '10
Merry Christmas 2009
Merry Christmas 2010
Handmade Show '11
Some 2011 News
Interbike 2011
Merry Christmas 2011
Handmade Show '12
L'Eroica 2012
NAHBS 2013 Prequel
2013 NAHBS - 1, Snow - 0
Great '13 NAHBS PR

Gallery
Restoration
Sam's cafe bike
Wheel building poster
3 Gems in Seattle
Color in Ohio
Wood Rims in France
Eddie's Gem
Gregg's Somec
Torchy Peden's Bike
1977 Hetchins
The Miller Bike
A Cruising Ranger
Rim Pin Striping
Odom's Awesome Hubs
More Mead Ranger
Renaissance Cinelli
Allez Islay
Tom's Ant
All Steel Wheels
Tasting and Living
Antique Rim Drill
Aston Martin Bicycle
Celebrate

Reflections
Mavic memories
Mavic's R-Sys
Ode to Spokes
Hommage to 1034

Workshops
Heroes of the Past and Present
Floating Workshop
French Workshop
A London Bench

Wood Rims
Advice for building wood rims
Seasonal Wood Rim Maintenance
Watch Wood Rims Being Made
How wood rims are made
The history of wood rims
Nature's composite
How wood can make a rim
Wood bicycles
Wood car
About Ghisallo rim models
Ghisallo Chapel, the Pope, and wood
Wood rims at Interbike
Wood rims at Taipei Show
Wood rims in the News
New Year '09
Wood Rims in France
Late '09 rim additions
Don Dickson on Wood
Tom Inskeep on Wood
Prior Track Hub Wheels
The Solution was Simple


About Us

Ric Hjertberg
Seattle
I began Wheelsmith with my brother Jon in Palo Alto in 1975. Moved to Seattle in 2003 to join Full Speed Ahead. Wheel Fanatyk started in 2007 to celebrate fine wheel building. I left FSA in 2009 to start Mad Fiber. Thanks for checking in.
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