Custom Fat Spoke Motorcycle Wheels - Ride Wright Wheels

A traditional spoked wheel gets its strength from the spokes being cross-laced across each other. However, with Ride Wright's Fat Daddy wheel design, the hub end of the spokes is threaded so they can screw directly into the hub.

Before the Fat Daddy spokes are threaded into the hub, the threads at the hub end are hit with red thread locker, and the threads at the rim end get a touch of grease.

All of Ride Wright's hubs are machined out of billet aluminum. The hubs for the Fat Daddy wheels are drilled and tapped to match the angles of the holes at which the rim was pierced. When it comes to lacing, first a couple of spokes are threaded into the hub...

...and the rim is placed over the spokes. Then the nipples are loosely threaded on.

This is a box of chrome nipples, but if you want red, white, and blue, Ride Wright can do it.

Once the 25 spokes are threaded into one side of the hub, the wheel is flipped, and the other 25 spokes are added.

After all the spokes are laced, it's time to true the rim. When it comes to truing, Sam doesn't let a wheel leave his facility with any more than 0.005 runout.

As the wheel is trued, the nipples are tightened and loosened until the entire wheel is within 0.005 inch.

One cool thing Sam can do with his wheels is seal them up so you can run a tubeless setup with spoked wheels. For tubeless, Ride Wright uses this silicone machine.

For tubed applications, a rim-band strap is wrapped around the inside of the rim to help protect the tube from the nipples.

When all is said and done, the layout of the spokes creates a pyramid shape when you look at the spokes from the rim to the hub. What this means is that as the wheel spins there will always be three spokes pointed at a 90-degree angle to the ground, absorbing the majority of the impact and dispersing the energy across the three spokes.

We liked these wheels so much we decided to pick some up for our Springer project.