Cliff Polton, engineer and owner of Royce UK, is still waiting for the spoke nipples he ordered from Italy nearly a quarter of a century ago to arrive. Tasked with building the wheels for Chris Boardman's Athlete’s Hour Record attempt, he finally gave up waiting and made the special spoke nipples himself.
“We’re engineers, we just made them,” Polton, a lifelong engineer who turns 80 this year, explains from his small business premises on the edge of the New Forest, Hampshire, England.
