Wheelworks.co.nz, Handbuilt wheels by Tristan Thomas

The Hope Pro2 is a great mountain bike hub and with more road and cyclocross bikes using disc brakes and 135mm spacing this hub makes great sense for a lot of other applications.

For Hayden I matched 36 hole Pro2 hubs to a pair of Salsa Delgado touring rims which have a rim-brake surface.  One of Hayden’s bikes has discs, the other rim brakes so this way he’s got both bases covered.

Spokes are double-butted DT Swiss Competitions laced three-cross front and rear.  Spoke nipples are DT Swiss brass.

These are not a light pair of wheels but they’re ready for commuting, off-road riding and loaded touring.

Mark sent this used PowerTap SL+ hub to be re-laced into a new wheel.   The hub was 32h but he wanted something quick enough to do a bit of racing on so we used the Kinlin XR-270 rim and bladed Aerolite spokes.

I also built a matching front wheel using a 24 hole DT Swiss 240s hub and the same excellent rim and spokes.  The ‘Radial’ version of the 240s hub has great flange stiffness and will result in a really solid, durable wheel.

At 1688 grams for the pair this wheelset is lighter than most ‘factory’ wheels AND it measure how hard you’re pushing on the pedals :-)

I love rebuilding used hubs – there is just something cool about giving a high quality hub a fresh lease of life with a new rim.  This old Record hub (complete with grease port and original quick release!) was in great shape and survived the impact with a car…the rim didn’t.

James wanted it rebuilt onto a black Open Pro to match the rear wheel.  We used DT Swiss Competition spokes and brass nipples – perfect for a training wheelset.

Record / Open Pro wheels are a bit cliche but they really do build up to be an excellent ‘fit and forget’ wheelset with good durability and reasonable weight.  Just watch out for cars :-)

Two mates from Auckland replacing the same wheelset, weighing the same and wanting the same wheel attributes…right down to decal colour!

These two wheelsets use the DT Swiss 240s hubs.  The Ultegra wheelsets these are replacing had become worn and no amount of servicing is able to bring worn bearing cups back to life.  The sealed bearing DT Swiss hubs will last for years because of their large bearings and when the bearings finally go south the hubs can be taken back to 100% performance simply by replacing them.

The rims are Kinlin XR-270s laced 24×0 front and 28×2 rear.  Spokes are bladed DT Swiss Aerolites and spoke nipples are black DT Swiss alloy.

These wheels will be a huge performance improvement over the previous Ultegra wheelsets and will last a long, long time.

This is a super durable pair of ‘do all’ wheels for Andrew’s rigid 29er.

The red Pro2 hubs look great and will last pretty much forever.  The front can be converted to QR15 or 20mm if Andrew wants to change his fork at a later date.

The rear singlespeed hub uses a steel freehub body to reduce marring from the cogs and the chainline is adjustable.  The 48 engagement points mean quick pick-up at the pedals and a lot of noise when coasting :-)

I’ll wrap these with Stan’s yellow tape, install two tubeless valves and deliver them to Andrew.