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Title: Bent rim recommendation
Post by: pehayes on March 23, 2015, 11:19:22 AM: Helping someone restore an Ambassador. Any recommendation on where to send a bent rear rim with a few bent spokes?

Patrick Hayes
Fremont CA
Title: Re: Bent rim recommendation
Post by: guzzi ride on March 23, 2015, 11:36:32 AM: You might try, Buchanan's Spoke & Rim, Inc or Woody's wheel works.
Title: Re: Bent rim recommendation
Post by: Triple Jim on March 23, 2015, 11:38:59 AM: My experience was that Woody's is a lot more customer service oriented than Buchanan's. But it's Buchanan's that has the spoke making machinery, so Woody's probably gets custom spokes from Buchanan's.
Title: Re: Bent rim recommendation
Post by: Antietam Classic Cycle on March 23, 2015, 12:07:38 PM: I'd have Woody's do the work and source good used original spokes yourself. Mark E. and Harper's likely have bunches, I have a few also if needed.
Title: Re: Bent rim recommendation
Post by: mtiberio on March 23, 2015, 01:20:24 PM: Last time I called Mark E for spokes, he taught me how to straighten them, in situ, over the phone...
Title: Re: Bent rim recommendation
Post by: ccoli on March 23, 2015, 04:59:52 PM: Got a wheel from an Ambo I could spare. $75 and shipping. Let me know.
Title: Re: Bent rim recommendation
Post by: Chuck in Indiana on March 23, 2015, 07:07:26 PM: Quote from: mtiberio on March 23, 2015, 01:20:24 PM
Last time I called Mark E for spokes, he taught me how to straighten them, in situ, over the phone...

;D ;-T Yeah, that's Mark, all right..
Title: Re: Bent rim recommendation
Post by: guzzista on March 23, 2015, 10:02:38 PM: Chris Quinn ( Wheelworks) is right up the road in Hayward. Figure you might want try somewhere close before shipping off to Timbuktoo? He' done a bunch of wheels for me over the last 30+ years and I have never had a problem. Just sayin'
Title: Re: Bent rim recommendation
Post by: JoeW on March 23, 2015, 10:32:12 PM: New Borrani rims available here... http://www.aemgarage.com/Borrani/borrani-motorcycle-wheels-aemgarage-dealer-US.php
Title: Re: Bent rim recommendation
Post by: Mayor_of_BBQ on March 23, 2015, 11:23:14 PM: What's bent? Rim or spokes?
If it's just spokes, remove the offenders, bend them straight and re install/true

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Title: Re: Bent rim recommendation
Post by: Sheepdog on March 24, 2015, 09:01:30 AM: I have used Woody's Wheel Works and was very satisfied. The turnaround was prompt, the wheel was round, and the price was reasonable...