The wheel (handbuilt) is dead-long live the wheel (factory)

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Re: The wheel (handbuilt) is dead-long live the wheel (factory)

Postby Jon H » Mon Feb 25, 2008 4:57 pm

Andrew, never, never grow a ginger beard, you might get mistaken for Floyd Landis, and look what a ###t he turned out to be.
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Re: The wheel (handbuilt) is dead-long live the wheel (factory)

Postby mrP(Boonen)VT » Mon Feb 25, 2008 5:01 pm

[quote]But never, ever, will you see me riding a bike fitted with racks/paniers and probably never even mud guards.


Funnily enough I said the same thing when I was your age
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Re: The wheel (handbuilt) is dead-long live the wheel (factory)

Postby Dominic » Wed Feb 27, 2008 7:26 pm

Just got in from work and I have a message on the phone telling me that the wheel is unrepairable. Unrepairable in that he feels the wheel would be dangerous ie too concave. I have to go in to discuss the matter with him :evil:
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Re: The wheel (handbuilt) is dead-long live the wheel (factory)

Postby Snoop Doug » Wed Feb 27, 2008 9:05 pm

[quote="Dominic"]I have to go in to discuss the matter with him :evil:


The time for talking is over my friend......pretty soon he'll be sleeping with the fishes
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Re: The wheel (handbuilt) is dead-long live the wheel (factory)

Postby Dominic » Thu Feb 28, 2008 1:14 pm

Well I went into see Paul at Bike Plus on my way to work this morning. The long and the short of it is that the rim is concave, pretty badly actually, the rim has to be replaced. He quoted me again £90. £50 for the build and £40 for an Mavic Open Pro. I will not be taking him up on the offer. I will be retrieving the wheel and sourcing the parts at some point myself for a go at this wheel building lark.

He was kind enough to try and sell me two sets of wheels one for £90 the other pair for £120. I politely declined after pointing out to him that the prices on the the internet were cheaper.
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Re: The wheel (handbuilt) is dead-long live the wheel (factory)

Postby Jon H » Thu Feb 28, 2008 2:13 pm

Swapping a rim is an easy way to start. If you're using the same type of rim you just tape the new rim alongside the old one, slacken off all the nipples (steady on Finbar), swap each spoke over from the old rim to the new one, tighten everything up then do a bit of trueing.
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Postby mrP(Boonen)VT » Thu Feb 28, 2008 2:20 pm

Remembering to line it up correctly - ie match the valve holes and the offsets of the spokes the same way round.
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Re: The wheel (handbuilt) is dead-long live the wheel (factory)

Postby Grahame » Thu Feb 28, 2008 2:22 pm

[quote="Jon Hemming"]Swapping a rim is an easy way to start. If you're using the same type of rim you just tape the new rim alongside the old one, slacken off all the nipples (steady on Finbar), swap each spoke over from the old rim to the new one, tighten everything up then do a bit of trueing.


This is what we will be doing in (part of) the first wheel building session.

The two sessions will be held after Easter, on consecutive club room evenings. I have italian classes on Wednesday evenings until easter, so can't do it before then.

PS - unwanted easter eggs will be acceptable as tuition fees in lieu of cake.
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Re: The wheel (handbuilt) is dead-long live the wheel (factory)

Postby Ben » Fri Feb 29, 2008 11:08 am

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Re: The wheel (handbuilt) is dead-long live the wheel (factory)

Postby Sylv » Sat Mar 01, 2008 10:22 pm

Grahame I have a rear mtb wheel that will need rebuilding (the one which freehub died on the retroride), the hub is kaputt cannot take it apart, i need to find a replacement hub for same spoke length, if that would be useful to do for your tuition let me know.
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Re: The wheel (handbuilt) is dead-long live the wheel (factory)

Postby Grahame » Sat Mar 01, 2008 10:28 pm

Sylv, yes we can rebuild it (better, stronger, faster) as part of the demo.

I was planning to build a new back wheel for me to use on Colorado this summer, but redoing yours will be fine.
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Re: The wheel (handbuilt) is dead-long live the wheel (factory)

Postby Dominic » Sun Mar 02, 2008 12:09 am

Well I want to thank you all for your help and encouragement. Picked up the old rear wheel from Bike Plus today and I have just swapped the front rim to replace the rear. Took a bit of time but it is done. I will finish tensioning it tomorrow and if I can't get it true I will take it to C&N in Redhill and get them to finish truing it and have saved myself the price of new set of wheels :D
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Re: The wheel (handbuilt) is dead-long live the wheel (factory)

Postby mrP(Boonen)VT » Mon Mar 03, 2008 2:59 pm

Truing it i.e.side to side is the easy bit - the difficult but is getting it concentric i.e. a proper circle with the hub at the centre. This can easily be checked by looking on the wheel sideways as it spins past the brakeblock. There shouldn't be any up and down "bumps", ignoring any side to side movement.
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Re: The wheel (handbuilt) is dead-long live the wheel (factory)

Postby Grahame » Mon Mar 03, 2008 3:01 pm

[quote="mrP(Boonen)VT"]Truing it i.e.side to side is the easy bit - the difficult but is getting it concentric i.e. a proper circle with the hub at the centre. This can easily be checked by looking on the wheel sideways as it spins past the brakeblock. There shouldn't be any up and down "bumps", ignoring any side to side movement.


I've always found it easiest to take out any lack of concentricity (ie bumps, flat spots or "egginess") before worrying about the side-to-side trueness of the wheel.
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Re: The wheel (handbuilt) is dead-long live the wheel (factory)

Postby mrP(Boonen)VT » Tue Mar 04, 2008 1:58 pm

[quote]ive always found it best to do every spoke up half a turn in sequence repeating until its time to do every spoke up by a quarter of a turn in sequence and then an eighth of a turn in sequence etc and it kind of ends up central both concentrically and laterally


Good advice - never more than 1/2 turn at a time before going on to the next spoke. But be warned, not every spoke is exactly the same length and a couple of turns when screwing on the nipple could make a lot of difference.
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