Hagon Wheelbuilding

Hagon's Wheel Building Service

We are one of the longest established wheel builders around and specialise in the construction of spoked wheels and cast wheel repairs.

Supply us with your hub and we can offer a range of chrome, stainless and aluminium flangeless rims. We also stock flanged aluminium rims. Spokes are available in galvanised or polished stainless steel.

We always carry large stocks of rims in most sizes and offer a same day building service if required. We also offer a polishing, blasting, and laquering service for your hubs and rims.

At Hagon we are also experts in the repair of cast and Comstar wheels. In most cases accident damaged wheels can be safely and professionally straightened.

Use the guide lines below to supply us with correct information we need in order to build to the exact specification required. You will see at the top of this page access to a rim width/tyre size table to help you match the correct rims to the tyres you wish to use.

All Hagon Wheel products are available as separate items and we offer a Worldwide delivery service.

Rim Ordering
When ordering please state:

Diameter......................e.g. 19"
Width............................e.g. 185 or WM2
Number of holes.......e.g. 36 or 40
Type of rim.................e.g. flanged alloy

Most rims are stocked undrilled so they can be drilled with the correct spoke angles to suit the hub size. To ensure that this is as accurate as possible we would like the following information:

Make, Model & Year....................................e.g. Honda CB750K1 1971

Specify whether front or rear hub

Diameters A & B of hub.............................e.g. 115mm/60mm

Width of hub (between flange centres).e.g. 52mm (2")

Diameter of nipple hole required............e.g. 6.3mm (0.250")

Spoke Ordering
Spokes are available in galvanised or polished stainless steel and we prefer a pattern. When ordering please state:
Overall length (see diagram)..............e.g. 215mm (8.5")
Wire diameter.........................................e.g. 4mm (8 gauge)
If butted state both diameters............e.g. 4/3mm (8/10 G)
Head angle..............................................e.g. 90 degrees
Galvanised or stainless...
Nipple diameter (see table).................e.g. 7.8mm (0.300")
Please note that while we try to ensure that spoke sizes are correct, hand fitting is often required due to variations in rims and hubs.

Butted Spokes are available in stainless only and the following sizes 6-8, 8-9, 9-10 and 8-10

Spoke Gauge	m.m.	Nipple Sizes Available	Nipple Measurement	Nipple	m.m.
6 8 9 10 12	4.8 4.0 3.5 3.0 2.5	.300 .275, .300 .250, .275, .300 .225, .250, .275, .300 .200, .225, .250		.200 .225 .250 .275 .300	5.1 5.7 6.3 7.0 7.8

Rim Offset
Some bikes have the wheels built with the rim offset to the hub centre line (this is referred to as the dish). If you require this or are cutting the rim from the hub yourself, please measure this as shown taking the measurement from the brake drum edge or disc mounting face. We also need to know the width of the rim fitted when the dish was measured.

If fitting a wider than standard rim and tyre, check clearances between tyre and chain or shaft housing and swing arm.