Here I will post pictures of motorcycle wheels build up by my Father and me
There are not too many "old school" people left who can build a spoked wheel. My father is a trained motorcycle mechanic from the 1950's. He is now 72 years old. He masters the skill of building up spoked wheels.
People from our area bring their rims, spokes and hubs. Then he does the magic.
Updated 02/03-2010 - see further down the page
These wheel are made a couple of years ago
1959 BSA A10 Super Rocket Complete set of alloy wheels with stinless spokes for a 1959 BSA Super Rocket. This Beautiful 650cc two cylinder british classic got two new akront alloy rims. The picture are taken in the owners garage, there's no pictures from the actual making of the wheels. The alloy wheels and the chromed mudguards makes the old beezer look a bit more sporty. The bike goes very well and pulls strongly in every gear. The bike got a rebore with new pistons, new bearing and bushings, a Boyer electronic ignition kit, new oil pump and lately a new timing belt drive for the dynamo.  Front wheel of the old beezer  1971 Yamaha YR5 350cc This bike was my previous bike. Restored from A to Z including a rebore a two new pistons. The old wheels was dismantled and the spokes de-rusted and cleaned to perfection. Afterwords the spokes was sent to zink plating (electro galvanizing). A new front rim bought on E-bay and the rear rim was taken from a US imported parts bike. I modified the front drum brake. Six holes was made on a milling machine. The holes was covered with brass wire mess. The wire mess is pressed into shape and epoxy glued to the inside of the drum.  The TLS Yamaha front drum, note the original cables  Latest wheels made: May 2009 A set of wheels for an old 1950's moped. A former colleage of mine found an old "Radexi" moped. The moped was in a real bad condition. Rusted and with a stuck engine. Lasse (the owner and restorer) made small wonders with the old Radexi moped. Found new parts in far corners of our country and put in many hours. See the below picture of the "new" radexi moped. It's sweet.  Lasse's sweet Radexi 50cc moped September 2009 - updated March 2010
Wheel for "Cykelbørsen" sidecar (danish made sidecar from the 50's).
The "Cykelbørsen" sidecar was a very popular sidecar frame. The frame could be equipped with either a box for goods or a ACAP or equivalent personal carrier. The sidecar is ment for a BSA M20 600cc single cylinder. The outfit is owned by my friend Jimmy Mølgaard. He is also the proud owner of two other classic Beezer's a 1959 500cc B33 single and a 1958 650cc A10 Super Rocket twin.
The rim is a standard NIMBUS rim and the hub is a non-braking cykelbørsen hub. The spokes are stainless.
  Above you see pictures of the rim, spokes, nipples and the hub painted black. On the second picture the wheel is almost done.  Above you can see the the finished wheel. Perfectly true and ready for meeting the rim rubber, inner tube and tire. When the sidecar is finished I will post a picture. My friend Jimmy has made some real progress with his BSA M21 outfit. The "Cykelbørsen" sidecar is fitted to the BSA and the ACAP personal carrier is loosely mounted on the frame. The only thing missing is some paint on the ACAP personal carrier, and the final adjusting on the road. It's always nice to have the bike running straight and true. As you can see on the pictures a tire is fitted to the wheel and the complete wheel is back on its place on the sidecar. See the pictures below  Above you can see the outfit ready mounted on the BSA 600cc sidevalve single  Update - March 2010 BSA M20 Sidecar outfit ready for the spring runs One of my friends has recently finished his winter project. A
Side-car has been added to his 1954 BSA M21. The bike was originally
owned and used daily by his grand father. My friend got the bike when
his grandfather passed away years ago. It is restored and runs very
fine. It is a ridgid frame bike and the only rear suspension is in the
saddle and the riders bottom. As shown in the Wheel building section earlier. We made a spoked wheel for the side-car. The side-car frame is a Danish "Cykelbørsen" type and the side-car box is a Danish manufactured "ACAP". The ACAP was used in large numbers by the Danish "NIMBUS" motorcycle company. Now we have pictures of the complete outfit. See below: Pictures of Jimmy's very nice BSA M20 outfit. Now ready for the street (as soon as the damn snow melts) November 2009 Wheels for a 1956 NSU Lux Now it is time for a set of chromed wheels for a NSU Lux. The bike is a 200cc two-stroke german made bike from 1956. The bike has until now runned just fine with a set of black painted rims and black spokes. The owner thought that it was time for a shiny new set of chromed rims and spokes. The hubs was polished and very nice. So it was just up to the old man to get it laced properly. See below for a picture of the finished wheels. A funny thing with the NSU's wheels is, the front and back wheel are interchangable. Why, I don't know. A picture of the bike with the wheels mounted will be added as soon as available.  Shiny new wheels ready to be mounted on a NSU Lux. December 2009 / January 2010 Wheels for a 1956 NSU Max My father is building up a NSU Max for himself. The NSU Max is a 250cc single cylinder four-stroke bike made from 1952 to 1962. The technology in the engine in this bike was very upfront. When running at tick-over the only thing to be heard to a puf-puf-puf from the exhaust. No valve ticking or other familiar sounds known from both english and british bikes. New German quality rims and spokes is delivered and the wheels are beeing made January/February 2010 A complete refurbishment of a set of wheels for a Yamaha SR500 single is on the way. A proud Yamaha owner has got pair of very used wheels. The wheels needs polishing of the alloy rims and hubs. And also a new set of stainless spokes. The spokes are bought in Germany by the owner. I took a couple of pictures of the wheels before I dismantled them. The pictures shows the badly corroded rims and hubs. The spokes are almost black with corrosion. See for yourself below.   Badly corroded wheels and hubs. Still with some of the original clear-coat apparent. Many hours later    The SR500 Yamaha will look good with this set of wheels.    The finished wheels ready for Malte's Yamaha SR 500 More projects is apearing in the near future |