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Monday 8:30am - 4:45pm Tuesday 8:30am - 4:45pm Wednesday 8:30am - 4:45pm Thursday 8:30am - 4:45pm Friday 8:30am - 4:45pm

Buchanan's Spoke & Rim

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Buchanan's Spoke and Rim is an American manufacturer of custom spokes and custom drilled rims. Our p Buchanan's Frame Shop was founded by Jim Buchanan in 1958.

In its first decade of operation, Buchanan's offered motorcycle frame and wheel repair. Originally, spokes and ni***es were purchased from outside suppliers for in house needs. A large supply of blank (un-drilled) aluminum rims were kept on hand. This enabled Buchanan's to quickly supply its customers with accurately drilled patterns for both stock and custom wheel assemblies. Buchanan's began manufacturing its own line of spokes in 1971 to supply its growing wheel repair service. By 1975, advances in our manufacturing ability allowed Buchanan's to sell pre-packaged spoke kits to other wheel repair shops. In 1980, Buchanan's began stocking blank Sun Rims. The versatility of these rim's unique non-dimpled construction was maximized by Buchanan's custom built drilling machine. Buchanan's discontinued its frame straightening services in 1987. This decision was necessary to accommodate the increasing demand for spokes, rims and finished wheel assemblies for both motorcycles and cars. Now known as Buchanan's Spoke & Rim, Inc., we moved into the 21st Century as a second generation family business. We are committed to focusing our skills and experience to delivering to our customers, quality products and services that live up to our reputation. We thank you for your patronage and invite you to tour the shop when you are in the Los Angeles area.

10/29/2026

Why are skeletons so tough?
Nothing gets under their skin...

What's are vampire's favorite fruits?
Necktarines & blood oranges

"What do you do for a living?"
"I do my best"

What do you get when you divide the circumference of a Jack-o'-lantern by it's diameter?
Pumpkin-Pi

What do you call a witch that lives at the beach?
A sandwich.

What's worse than a box full of snakes?
A box that was supposed to be full of snakes.

What do you call a horse that only comes out after dark?
A nightmare.

Why are cemeteries so popular?
Because everyone's dying to get in.

What kind of music do mummies listen to?
Wrap music.

What did the skeleton say to the bartender?
I'll have two beers and a mop.

10/29/2026

10/28/2026

We aren’t the only ones respecting hand making practices.

10/28/2026

Regarding the Honda rear hub we posted yesterday (showing the dirty vs bead blasted condition) here’s the update. In the first image you see a beautiful pair of hubs, fresh bearings and a rather nasty looking center spacer. While there are some who would use it as is since nobody can see it, that’s not the way we work. A quick bead blast and scraping the bore with a 3 corner scraper and finally a de-burring of the ends, now it’s ready for assembly. This one definitely would have bound to an axle. That’s the last thing you need when you’re finishing a fresh build.

Once the bearings and seals are pressed in (not driven in with a hammer), the hubs are ready for lacing up with fresh stainless spokes and yellow zinc ni***es (limited sizes, call for availability) and then trued.

In case you didn’t notice, the middle portion of the hubs (between the spoke flanges) was left bead blasted while the outer faces were polished to emulate the original look. Certainly that area can be polished, please let us know what you prefer when you send us your job.

Another example of the Buchanan’s difference.

10/27/2026

One of our customers had the bead blast finish damaged during shipment here so he approved having us redo the blasting. After blasting the one hub, we photographed it with the untouched hub.

And yes, we clean the hubs not only in the bearing bore but also the drive splines, threads etc.

That’s the Buchanan’s difference.

10/27/2026

Before we send parts out for polishing. We take the extra steps of removing the bearings, cleaning the grease and oils off, ultimately bead blasting the hub clean inside and out.

It is more work to do all of this but it is THE way to get a superior result. Keep watching for updates…

09/15/2026

Yes, we are back from our week off in honour of Labour Day. Yesterday was a bit hectic being down by one but everybody is back today, looking forward to helping you.

09/04/2026

Reminder before we bug out for the holiday. We will be closed for our annual holiday, the full week after Labour Day weekend (5-13 September). While we are still here to answer your calls, any orders taken today will be charged after we return. Certainly, emailed or website orders are the same situation.

On the otherhand, if you are going to ship in your hubs/wheels for us to work on them, this next week is a geat time to pack it all up with a cover letter explaining: who you are, where you are, what's the best way to contact you during the day, what's in the box and what you want us to do with it. Do not include a credit card number.

Looking forward to a little break, we'll be back 14 September to rip those boxes open and hit the ground running.

Please have a great Labour Day weekend while still staying prudent, we'll catch you then!

08/25/2026

Edison would say this was a good investment in learning.

Well… the prototype carbon fiber connecting rod BROKE. 💀

And before the keyboard engineers start celebrating like they just won the Super Bowl — GOOD.

This is exactly what prototype testing is supposed to do.

We put a carbon fiber rod in a test engine, leaned on it, found the limit, and eventually the rod said “I’m done.” 😂
You find the limit by BREAKING IT.

Now we know where it failed.
Now we know what needs more material.
Now we know what needs to change.
And now version #2 gets meaner.

Remember this picture, because if carbon fiber connecting rods eventually become normal in high-end racing engines, somebody is going to dig this
💀 Complete waste of time

08/25/2026

Heads up! We will be closed for our annual holiday, the full week after Labour Day weekend (5-13 September). If you need wheel work done, call us to see about getting it here this week for us to (hopefully) be able to get your job finished be fore we skip town.

Address

805 W 8th Street
Azusa, CA
91702

Opening Hours

Monday	8:30am - 4:45pm
Tuesday	8:30am - 4:45pm
Wednesday	8:30am - 4:45pm
Thursday	8:30am - 4:45pm
Friday	8:30am - 4:45pm

Telephone

+16269694655

Website

http://www.buchananspokes.com/

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