http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: 'Right' side of wheel en Mon, 20 Apr 2026 09:41:41 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14638#post-185214 Tue, 07 Apr 2015 15:19:48 +0000 Baldcyclist 185214@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Ah, better...;)</p> <p>And the hub logo is also pleasingly visible through the valve hole.</p> <p><img src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CB_rxJ7WAAAEDNu.jpg:small"> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14638#post-185202 Tue, 07 Apr 2015 13:18:59 +0000 Cyclingmollie 185202@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I've had bikes like that which is why I like my bike that's not like that so much. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14638#post-185188 Tue, 07 Apr 2015 11:35:22 +0000 wingpig 185188@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I once had a bike where I had a different type of rim on each wheel, a different make of tyre on each wheel, a different size of tyre on each wheel, a different type of brake front and back, a different colour of mudguard front and back, the different tape on each side of the handlebars, two colours of brake outer and three colours of gear outer and to cap it all, a chainring on <em>only one side</em>, rather than bilaterally-symmetrical dual chainrings.<br /> Never get yourself X-rayed, IWRATS. Your internal organs have such a lack of respect for symmetry it'd probably give you the heebies. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14638#post-185187 Tue, 07 Apr 2015 11:31:53 +0000 chdot 185187@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"yellow. It was awful."</p> <p>(Did I miss something...) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14638#post-185186 Tue, 07 Apr 2015 11:30:23 +0000 kaputnik 185186@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I once had a bike where the spoke nipples were red but all the coloured trim on the rest of it was yellow. It was awful. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14638#post-185185 Tue, 07 Apr 2015 11:27:27 +0000 I were right about that saddle 185185@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@wingpig</p> <p>By 'asymmetric' I meant matching tape wound to a different pitch. What you have described is heretical bar tape. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14638#post-185184 Tue, 07 Apr 2015 11:23:36 +0000 wingpig 185184@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><blockquote><em>"...or asymmetric bar tape"</em></blockquote></p> <p>On the right-hand of my handlebar I have brown pseudo-polyurethane pockled tape. On the left side, plain black tape. One day, perhaps in another two years' time, I shall get round to replacing the left side, if I can still find the box in which the brown tape came.</p> <p>When I have to take off a tyre I mark where the valve was by scraping a clean patch in the muck, in case I need to try and locate a tyre-intruder from the position of the hole in the inner. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14638#post-185182 Tue, 07 Apr 2015 11:12:30 +0000 Arellcat 185182@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>Lining up the stickers (and the tyre logo) with the valve hole isn't anal, it saves vital seconds in locating the valve hole.</em></p> <p>Not only does tyre label alignment add valuable OCD points, it makes it easier to locate a hole if the Faeries attack.</p> <p>I may or may not have oriented inner tubes with respect to their labels. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14638#post-185172 Tue, 07 Apr 2015 10:46:16 +0000 I were right about that saddle 185172@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@CyclingMollie</p> <p>Nice alignment of the spoke nipples. The red anodised finish picks up the bar tape, yes? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14638#post-185171 Tue, 07 Apr 2015 10:41:34 +0000 Cyclingmollie 185171@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>the holes in the rim for the spokes should be slightly biased</em></p> <p>If the manufacturer went to that bother they would throw it to the marketing department as a selling point:</p> <p><a href="https://flic.kr/p/rXEsbC"><img src="https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8791/17038828816_8b8d1eefa7.jpg"></a><a href="https://flic.kr/p/rXEsbC">Wheel rim marketing</a> by <a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/44681630@N02/">Cycling Mollie</a>, on Flickr </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14638#post-185170 Tue, 07 Apr 2015 10:41:16 +0000 DaveC 185170@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Don't worry I'm on your side IWRATS... ;O) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14638#post-185167 Tue, 07 Apr 2015 10:31:07 +0000 I were right about that saddle 185167@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@DaveC</p> <p>Remember that we are but dust and to dust we shall return.</p> <p>There's more to life than fruitlesly seeking valves. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14638#post-185165 Tue, 07 Apr 2015 10:21:08 +0000 DaveC 185165@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>'vital seconds'!!!!!!! ....</p> <p>!!!! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14638#post-185164 Tue, 07 Apr 2015 10:20:29 +0000 I were right about that saddle 185164@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@Kaputnik</p> <p>Don't get me started on mis-aligned handlebar grips or asymmetric bar tape. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14638#post-185163 Tue, 07 Apr 2015 10:16:10 +0000 chdot 185163@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"A clean bike goes faster and lasts longer – WHY?"</p> <p><a href="https://bikebase.wordpress.com/basic-basics/beginners-guide-to-living-with-a-bike/" rel="nofollow">https://bikebase.wordpress.com/basic-basics/beginners-guide-to-living-with-a-bike/</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14638#post-185161 Tue, 07 Apr 2015 10:07:40 +0000 kaputnik 185161@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Lining up the stickers (and the tyre logo) with the valve hole isn't anal, it saves vital seconds in locating the valve hole. It also looks better and things that look good go faster, right? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14638#post-185157 Tue, 07 Apr 2015 09:58:01 +0000 I were right about that saddle 185157@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@wingpig</p> <p>I expect the slots in your spoke nipples are all <em>over</em> the place. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14638#post-185154 Tue, 07 Apr 2015 09:49:08 +0000 wingpig 185154@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>When pumping up the tyres I tend to just look for the sticking-out valve, rather than attempting to discern which bit of greyish-brown muck is concealing the wheel label, rim sticker or hub writing. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14638#post-185150 Tue, 07 Apr 2015 09:17:36 +0000 I were right about that saddle 185150@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@BaldCyclist</p> <p>Excellent critique. You should be able to read the writing on the hub when looking down through the valve hole in the rim, and angle-drilled rims' chirality must be respected.</p> <p>Have you checked that the inner tube has been installed the right way round? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14638#post-185148 Tue, 07 Apr 2015 08:59:49 +0000 Roibeard 185148@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@wfb - far be it for me to slight a more experienced Bromptonista, yet my 2013 dynamo wheeled, hub geared Brompton has crossing spokes (hence angle drilled) front and rear.</p> <p>I think they may have gone for radial spokes (straight drilled) for the non-dynamo and non-hub geared wheels, although I can't be certain.</p> <p>Robert </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14638#post-185123 Mon, 06 Apr 2015 17:13:42 +0000 wee folding bike 185123@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Some rims have the holes angled. Brompton changed theirs in 2013 so the back and front rims aren't the same anymore, rear is angled, front isn't. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14638#post-185121 Mon, 06 Apr 2015 16:55:32 +0000 Baldcyclist 185121@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I ended up taking it back, they are going to sort it. :)</p> <p>Yes, I was being anal, the wheel was indeed perfectly functional. It would have just annoyed me every time I looked at the bike to have labels facing in different directions.</p> <p>They did seem quite surprised I had even noticed, and all had a little confab whilst looking at the wheel offering opinion as to whether I was right or not. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14638#post-185120 Mon, 06 Apr 2015 16:45:44 +0000 DaveC 185120@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Technically you may be right, in that, I read in the Wheel Building section of the Book of Zinn, that the holes in the rim for the spokes should be slightly biased. i.e. Every even other hole is biased to one side, with every odd biased to the other, but in practice the rim I bought was not labled and I could not tell by looking at it. Does it really make such a difference?</p> <p>As for the logo being visible from the valve hole, thats just anal. Stuff that. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14638#post-185118 Mon, 06 Apr 2015 15:44:25 +0000 Baldcyclist 185118@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>My other issue is that the hub label isn't lined up with the valve hole. My head is hurting looking at it. Maybe should have built it myself. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14638#post-185117 Mon, 06 Apr 2015 15:41:49 +0000 dougal 185117@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@wee folding bike: That's almost a tech support solution.</p> <p>"Have you tried taking it off and putting it back on again?" </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14638#post-185116 Mon, 06 Apr 2015 15:38:41 +0000 wee folding bike 185116@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Could you peel off the sticker and turn it round? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14638#post-185114 Mon, 06 Apr 2015 15:33:32 +0000 Baldcyclist 185114@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Silly question, the right side of a wheel is the 'drive side' isn't it?</p> <p>Just had a rear wheel built, and to my eyes the labels are on the wrong way.</p> <p>Before I take it back,looking at the 'cog' side, the rim label should read left to right, yeah?</p> <p>I know it in no way affects the functionality of the wheel, but the labels should all be facing the right way. :) </p>