WWS Drahtspeichen: Die Speiche mit dem Kleeblatt – Speichen und Speichen-Nippel

Wire wheels by WWS

Manufacturing and restoring wire wheels: everything from a single source

From disassembly with inspection of the components to surface finishing (e.g. glass bead blasting, chrome plating or polishing), the manufacture of spokes and the punching of rims to the completion and adjustment of the wheel including fitting and balancing of the tyres. All work is carried out professionally and expertly.

Spoked wheel service for car and motorbike

• Complete restoration or new production
• Repair and centring service
• Maintenance with inspection incl. retensioning and centring
• Tyre fitting with static or dynamic balancing
• Special wheels such as cross-spoke wheels from BMW, Honda and Triumph, for example
• Blasting work and surface coatings of various kinds
• Mechanical repair of bearing packs or similar
• Polishing, high-gloss compaction and painting
• Installation of bead, snap ring, bead end or drop centre rims made of aluminium, steel or stainless steel (Depending on availability, only original parts can be reconditioned.)

Spoked wheels for all vehicle types

We work for you on cars and motorbikes, classic cars and new vehicles from Zündapp mopeds to Mercedes SSK...

Picture: Alfa Romeo

We have been involved in wheel construction for a long time through our spoke production. Whether for spoke and wheel tests, customer orders, sampling, prototype construction or special applications, we have been offering this service for many years. By intensifying our wheel construction activities, we want to help ensure that you continue to receive your usual service in Germany and tested spokes made in Germany.

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Radspannerei Köhler

Unfortunately, in recent years a number of wheel-building businesses have ceased trading. As a result of these incidents, our love of vintage cars, our close ties and geographical proximity to the Köhler company, we have decided to continue the Köhler wheel clamping workshop with all its expertise under our name alongside our actual spoke production. Mr Köhler will continue to support us with his decades of expertise.

Please note

Although the spoked wheels are balanced and tensioned, after a certain time and depending on the load, driving style and performance of the vehicle, unsteadiness can occur. The constant pulling and unloading of the spokes per wheel rotation causes the spokes to ‘settle’. This makes retensioning, re-centring and balancing necessary.

A spoked wheel is and remains ‘alive’. For example, during a race at the Nürburgring, a professional film camera recorded how a Borrani wheel on a vehicle moved almost a whole centimetre off centre and then returned to its original position after the bend.

Motocross riders, for example, also only use spoked wheels, as only these guarantee the necessary elasticity.

In short: spoked wheels require constant care.

After approx. 7 years, the tyre gradually loses its softeners. This means that the tyre no longer has any or enough grip, especially on wet roads. It is irrelevant whether the tread of the tyre is still good. The tyre should then definitely be replaced. Valves are always replaced when tyres are fitted.

Further information

You can find lots more useful and interesting information about spoked wheels in our ABC of spokes.