Since the start of 2014 season it has been my personal pleasure to be able to help former Commonwealth Junior 800m running champion Dani Christmas (@Dani_Christmas) in her quest to become a full time bike racer. Spin has supported Dani as both bike and...
Over the years I’ve heard many people claim that building wheels is an art. As someone who has built a few, actually I don’t think it is. To me, building wheels is entirely mathematics and craft. And when you build to tight tolerances and high tensions, it also...
Headline specs don’t tell the whole story – not even half of it! In the crowded high performance wheel market it’s all about the attention grabbing headline specs. The weight of a pair down to the gram, the depth, the spoke count, the price....
To mass produce wheels, like all the big name brands do, time allocated for production and assembly must be paired to a minimum. And to achieve this requires compromise at the component level which will sooner or later compromise both the performance and durability of...
Frame. Front wheel. Rear wheel.Next to a sound frameset, wheels contribute by far the biggest proportion of your bike’s total performance, feel, security and fun. So it pays big dividends as a cyclist to invest well, and it’s the reason that we as a bike...
