Technical Stuff — Wheel Repairs

A little love …

• Classic • Shimano • Wheel Builds • Wheel Repairs

A little love …

We pride ourselves in offering the same level of service whether you buy all the parts for your build through us, or supply them to us. We are often rebuilding hubs for customers. We can even arrange a mirror like

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Why not?

• Classic • Wheel Builds • Wheel Repairs

Why not?

Are your wheels driving you crazy? Won’t stay true? Hubs loosen all the time? Keep breaking spokes? Well, let our lunatics at the XLR8 “Temple of all things Round” get their greasy little mits dirty, and sort them out for

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ENVE and the nipple corrosion issue

• Aero • Carbon • TT and Triathlon • Wheel Repairs

ENVE and the nipple corrosion issue

We’re seen a few ENVEs in the workshop lately, all with a similar problem, and all needing rebuilds. It seems that the first ENVE factory built wheelsets (or at least with factory supplied build kits) used an internal alloy nipple

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Loctite + Alloy Nipples = trouble

• Bontrager • Carbon • DT Swiss • HED • Wheel Repairs

Loctite + Alloy Nipples = trouble

A personal friend called me up to discuss his Bontrager Aeolus wheels. These were specced with Bontrager sealed bearing hubs (with a DT Swiss freehub), DT Aerolite spokes (in glaring pianted white) and glorious HED Carbon clinchers. Sounds good so

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