The cycle workshop can be a hectic place at times (or all the time if you’re lucky!). The spirit of this piece is to show some of the things technicians may do in order to increase the accuracy and sp ...

Did you know that DT Swiss is the world’s largest spoke manufacturer? We produce several millions high-quality stainless steel spokes every year in Biel and Grand Junction. DT Swiss is the worl ...

These thin strands of wire perform a relentlessly tough job, being stretched and compressed repeatedly with every single revolution of our wheels. They also carry the acceleration forces of pedalling ...

Why, several respondents have asked apropos the recent Remerx Alcyon wheel test, bother with aluminium spokes? Why, indeed? After all, until Mavic came up with the Ksyrium wheel concept in 1999, nobod ...

DT Swiss did not become the world’s leading spoke maker overnight. It has been manufacturing wire products, and forging and shaping metal before electricity powered factories. Its first machinery was ...

Wheel rims must be periodically adjusted to maintain proper alignment. Improper alignment typically becomes apparent when a section of the rim begins rubbing the break pad during rotation. In order f ...

Your bike’s spokes are key components of your wheel, being thin metal rods or wires that radiate out from the central hub (which rotates around the axle) to the outer rim (onto which the tyre is atta ...

The significance of spokes A bicycle wheel can only be as good as its parts. A wheel is made of three main parts; hubs, rims and spokes. If any of these is poor then it will lead to a poor wheel. Even ...

The spokes on your bike’s wheels are like the busboys at the restaurant. They’re quiet and out of the way, and it’s pretty much a thankless job. No one ever notices when everything ...

Spoke nipple holds a bicycle wheel’s rim to each spoke. The spoke nipple is a headed cylinder with threading on the inside through part of its length (there is an unthreaded lead-in nearest the ...

A spoke is one of some number of rods radiating from the center of a wheel (the hub where the axle connects), connecting the hub with the round traction surface. History The spoked wheel was invented ...