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by **mrP(Boonen)VT** » Mon Sep 10, 2007 5:00 pm

any old excuse :roll:

by **Grahame** » Mon Sep 10, 2007 6:11 pm

So, who's up for wheelbuilding this Wednesday?

Anybody got a set of components they want to use for the demo?

Or should I bring the badly built (by somebody else) wheel I've got and want to rectify?

by **George** » Mon Sep 10, 2007 6:31 pm

Hey Graham I'm looking forward to Wednesday,

In my accident I didn't damage my wheels so maybe you'll have to bring your one.

by **Grahame** » Mon Sep 10, 2007 9:37 pm

Sean, we'll use yours as part of the session. I'm planning to show you how to build a wheel from a hub, a rim, and a pile of spokes and nipples, and I'm sure you don't want me to go that far with your wheel.

So far it's my (mountainbike) front wheel that's for the full treatment.

by **Jon H** » Mon Sep 10, 2007 9:51 pm

I've got a few wheels is various states of dis-array that I can bring along.

by **mrP(Boonen)VT** » Tue Sep 11, 2007 8:22 am

[quote]nipples are loose

by **Will** » Tue Sep 11, 2007 9:22 am

Wow, do you reckon you can build a whole wheel in one sitting?

The last wheel I built took 10 months :lol:

Although I'm pleased to say that it coped perfectly with its first week's use (apart from a quick ride up and down my street) of downhill holiday in Les Arcs

by **Grahame** » Tue Sep 11, 2007 9:53 am

I'm not sure wheel (sic) get it completed in the one evening. Probably laced, and a talk through the principles of truing, then demonstrate truing on some "customer" wheels.

A complete build usually takes me about 2 hours, though that is often 1 3/4 hours then a break as I get frustrated with the truing/tensioning cycle, and then 15 minutes when it all miraculously comes together rather quickly. I think it's the tea that makes it all work.

by **mrP(Boonen)VT** » Tue Sep 11, 2007 11:06 am

[quote]A complete build usually takes me about 2 hours, though that is often 1 3/4 hours then a break as I get frustrated with the truing/tensioning cycle, and then 15 minutes when it all miraculously comes together rather quickly. I think it's the tea that makes it all work.

by **Grahame** » Tue Sep 11, 2007 9:17 pm

No worries, Sean.

We can do a short truing lesson on Saturday if you want - though the weekend fee rises to a coffee from Regalino's

by **-Adam-** » Wed Sep 12, 2007 12:01 am

Sorry Grahame, im not going to be able to make it tomorow either...

I'll be happy to oblige on the coffee when im back on the bike though...!

by **Sylv** » Wed Sep 12, 2007 12:26 am

The first time I tried truing a wheel I took apart an old rear one for practise, but didn't realise the spokes were of different lengths from one side to another. So they all got mixeed up in the rebuild, resulting in a weird pretzel-shaped wheel :lol:

by **Bo-Gilly** » Wed Sep 12, 2007 6:24 pm

erm, Grahame told me today that it would be at 8pm

by **Grahame** » Wed Sep 12, 2007 7:28 pm

I thought the clubroom opened at 8. If not, we'll nip across the road for a pint.

Useful information for budding wheelbuilders:
Instructions and information
http://www.sheldonbrown.com/wheelbuild.html

Spoke length calculators
http://www.sheldonbrown.com/rinard/spocalc.htm
http://www.appliedthought.com/danny/Spo ... lator.html
http://www.geocities.com/d_halem/wheel/wheel.html

by **Will** » Wed Sep 12, 2007 9:59 pm

And this fella has a PDF book you can download (for a fee)

http://www.wheelpro.co.uk/

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