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Custom Fat Spoke Motorcycle Wheels - Ride Wright Wheels

Ride Wright Custom Wheels Chrome Spokes
A traditional spoked wheel... 
   
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Ride Wright Custom Wheels Chrome Spokes
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.
Ride Wright Custom Wheels Thread Locker
Before the Fat Daddy spokes... 
   
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Ride Wright Custom Wheels Thread Locker
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.
Ride Wright Custom Wheels Hub
All of Ride Wright's hubs... 
   
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Ride Wright Custom Wheels Hub
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...
Ride Wright Custom Wheels Nipple Installation
...and the rim is placed over... 
   
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Ride Wright Custom Wheels Nipple Installation
...and the rim is placed over the spokes. Then the nipples are loosely threaded on.
Ride Wright Custom Wheels Chrome Nipples
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Ride Wright Custom Wheels Chrome Nipples
This is a box of chrome nipples, but if you want red, white, and blue, Ride Wright can do it.
Ride Wright Custom Wheels Spoke Installation
Once the 25 spokes are threaded... 
   
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Ride Wright Custom Wheels Spoke Installation
Once the 25 spokes are threaded into one side of the hub, the wheel is flipped, and the other 25 spokes are added.
Ride Wright Custom Wheels Rim Truing
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Ride Wright Custom Wheels Rim Truing
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.
Ride Wright Custom Wheels Nipple Adjustment
As the wheel is trued, the... 
   
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Ride Wright Custom Wheels Nipple Adjustment
As the wheel is trued, the nipples are tightened and loosened until the entire wheel is within 0.005 inch.
Ride Wright Custom Wheels Tubeless Preparation
One cool thing Sam can do... 
   
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Ride Wright Custom Wheels Tubeless Preparation
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.
Ride Wright Custom Wheels Rim Band Strap
For tubed applications, a... 
   
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Ride Wright Custom Wheels Rim Band Strap
For tubed applications, a rim-band strap is wrapped around the inside of the rim to help protect the tube from the nipples.
Ride Wright Custom Wheels Three Spoke Pyramid
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Ride Wright Custom Wheels Three Spoke Pyramid
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.
Ride Wright Custom Wheels Wheels For Springer Project
We liked these wheels so much... 
   
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Ride Wright Custom Wheels Wheels For Springer Project
We liked these wheels so much we decided to pick some up for our Springer project.

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