{"id":199,"date":"2012-11-01T02:06:09","date_gmt":"2012-11-01T02:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/notechmagazine.com\/2012\/11\/wooden-bicycle-rims.html"},"modified":"2015-10-15T11:26:58","modified_gmt":"2015-10-15T09:26:58","slug":"wooden-bicycle-rims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/2012\/11\/wooden-bicycle-rims.html","title":{"rendered":"Wooden Bicycle Rims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/wooden-bicycle-rims.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2731\" src=\"http:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/wooden-bicycle-rims.jpg\" alt=\"wooden bicycle rims\" width=\"872\" height=\"582\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/wooden-bicycle-rims.jpg 872w, https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/wooden-bicycle-rims-500x334.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 872px) 100vw, 872px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They are hard to build with, they require regular maintenance, they are expensive and they flex a lot. However, if you want a traditional looking wheel, avoiding metal altogether is a marvellous move, something that we\u2019re lucky to still be able to do today.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Cerchio Ghisallo has been producing wooden rims since 1946, and in this video father and son show how they do it. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?feature=player_embedded&amp;v=1hjCwav452s\" target=\"_blank\">Inside Cerchio Ghisallo part 1<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wFtgVfDu5Vg&amp;feature=relmfu\" target=\"_blank\">part 2<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=l79hjU1oWCg&amp;feature=relmfu\" target=\"_blank\">part 3<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>More about wood rims: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dcrwheels.co.uk\/custom-wheelsets\/building-with-wooden-rims\/\" target=\"_blank\">Building with Wooden Rims<\/a> \/ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bikeit.eclipse.co.uk\/cyclingprelycra\/racing\/woodrims.htm\" target=\"_self\">Cycling before Lycra<\/a> \/ <a href=\"http:\/\/wheelfanatyk.blogspot.com.es\/search\/label\/Wood%20Rim%20Press\" target=\"_blank\">Wheel Fanatyk<\/a> \/ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cyclingtips.com.au\/2010\/04\/is-wood-the-goods\/\" target=\"_blank\">Is Wood the Goods<\/a>? \/ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.classiclightweights.co.uk\/wood-sprints.html\" target=\"_blank\">Wood Sprints<\/a> \/<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cerchiinlegnoghisallo.com\/pagine\/prodottieng.php\" target=\"_blank\">Cerchio Ghisallo<\/a> \/ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacroboscorims.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sacro Bosco Bicycle works<\/a> \/ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbita.it\/?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\">CB Italia<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Picture: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sartoriacicli.it\/sartoriacicli\/dannata.html\" target=\"_blank\">d&#8217;Annata<\/a> by Sartoria Cicli.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;They are hard to build with, they require regular maintenance, they are expensive and they flex a lot. However, if you want a traditional looking wheel, avoiding metal altogether is a marvellous move, something that we\u2019re lucky to still be able to do today.&#8221; Cerchio Ghisallo has been producing wooden rims since 1946, and in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[94,50,315,8,125,73,92],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2733,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions\/2733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}