Wheelworks.co.nz, Handbuilt wheels by Tristan Thomas

I built some fixie wheels using the eccentric White Ind ENO hub for Ben a while back

Hey Tristan,

Found these on my camera today and thought you’d like to see how the wheel you built was used.

Its been brilliant by the way, gotta love simple ideas executed well.

Training effect of the fixie has been wicked too.. 4hrs round the Wairarapa on most weekends is a good honest ride esp if theres a good head wind.

Have yet to drag steve out on his fixie but then again the mtb is a bit more useful in town!

Cheers,

Ben

This is Chris’ new road bike; a BMC SLC01 Pro Machine with an Easton EA90 SLX fork.

The frame anrd fork were purchased from Capital Cycles and I built it up using Chris’ Chorus groupset and Wheelworks wheels. 7.14kg and ready for the Tour of Southland :-)

I’m busy with wheelbuilding these days so it was a bit of a treat to break out the tools and do a complete bike build.  The build went together really easily – no parts needed heavy modification or custom fabrication which are so often required to get the best out of high end bikes…although a straight-forward build makes life easier I really enjoy that side of things so I found it a bit of a ripoff :-)

The end result is a simply stunning bike!

I have years of pent-up desire to have a custom frame built for me but for various reasons (primarily revolving around NZ dollar exchange rates) I have never pulled the trigger, given my creditcard details and taken my place in a builder’s queue.

Mick did though, and after 9 months of waiting his amazing Llwellyn arrived from Darrell.  I was lucky enough to build the wheels and to help Mick sort out the groupset, parts, and solve the Thomson / 1″ steerer conundrum.

The bike is Molteni orange with polished dropout faces, seatstay bridge etc.  It’s perfect and I’m very, very jealous.