http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Who wants to teach me to build a wheel? en Wed, 13 May 2026 04:30:56 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9555#post-101916 Mon, 25 Feb 2013 16:07:13 +0000 chdot 101916@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><img src="http://www.bicyclehub.co.uk/images/wheelbuild/raleigh-wheelbuild.jpg"></p> <p><a href="http://www.bicyclehub.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=49&amp;Itemid=111" rel="nofollow">http://www.bicyclehub.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=49&amp;Itemid=111</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9555#post-101604 Fri, 22 Feb 2013 17:24:05 +0000 Roibeard 101604@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>and only through the Pino one together quickly</em></p> <p>&lt;sigh&gt; Threw the ball through the window, though thankfully it was open. The split infinitive isn't quite so bothersome...</p> <p>Robert<br /> &lt;shuffling off in shame&gt; </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9555#post-101602 Fri, 22 Feb 2013 17:16:15 +0000 chdot 101602@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/chdot/8498259500/"><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8109/8498259500_d59732306c.jpg"></a><br /> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/chdot/8498259500/">Lesson 2</a> (These spokes are in my hand so not in exact position/angle they would be if in a rim.)</p> <p>This is how I do it - because I don't do it often enough for it to be instinctive. </p> <p>Start with 4 spokes - two each side, heads pointing complementary ways. </p> <p>There are six holes between them if the wheel is to be built 'cross three'. </p> <p>Fix to rim around hole (above photo) so that there is biggest gap for the valve. </p> <p>Then add the rest of the spokes in the same pattern - alternating heads on the hub and from left and right at the rim. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9555#post-101589 Fri, 22 Feb 2013 15:53:08 +0000 Roibeard 101589@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I've built one rear wheel, courtesy of the Musson book (wheelpro link above) and rebuilt the Pino front wheel.</p> <p>I should say that I've never actually ridden the rear wheel, and only through the Pino one together quickly as the dismantling was just to get the measurements for ordering up spokes.</p> <p>We've speculated before about a wheel building session - I must order the Pino spokes if this looks likely to happen...</p> <p>Robert </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9555#post-101555 Fri, 22 Feb 2013 12:42:30 +0000 steveo 101555@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>/whistles again... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9555#post-101553 Fri, 22 Feb 2013 12:38:32 +0000 kaputnik 101553@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>You (WC) are welcome to borrow the Zinn book from whomever currently has it on loan! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9555#post-101551 Fri, 22 Feb 2013 12:24:47 +0000 wingpig 101551@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><blockquote><em>"...The other set wingpig used for one of his builds..."</em></blockquote></p> <p>Not yet. They'll be used to rebuild the hub from my old back wheel onto the rim from the sparebike's front wheel to form a new freehub-equipped rear wheel for sparebike.</p> <p>Kaputnik's Zinn book's method (but probably Sheldon/Brandt too) ensures that the crossing on the driveside on the rear is the right way round to not risk high-torque chain-spoke interactions. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9555#post-101544 Fri, 22 Feb 2013 12:16:49 +0000 Instography 101544@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Electric screwdriver? What's the rush - if he's made enough macaroons and his beer fridge is full it might as well take hours. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9555#post-101540 Fri, 22 Feb 2013 12:01:29 +0000 chdot 101540@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Something like this saves a bit of time -</p> <p><a href="http://www.aldi.co.uk/uk/html/offers/special_buys3_29099.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.aldi.co.uk/uk/html/offers/special_buys3_29099.htm</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9555#post-101539 Fri, 22 Feb 2013 12:00:55 +0000 steveo 101539@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Thats where I bought my three sets from, don't ask, one set have done me well for the last year on the single speed. The other set wingpig used for one of his builds, the third is kicking round my house but I expect will be too short. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9555#post-101538 Fri, 22 Feb 2013 11:57:04 +0000 Instography 101538@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>OK. I've just bought the spokes I need. Delivery due next Tuesday or Wednesday. Formulate a plan later. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9555#post-101537 Fri, 22 Feb 2013 11:54:51 +0000 Instography 101537@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The <a href="http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/spokesave/m.html?item=181078858649&amp;rt=nc&amp;_trksid=p2047675.l2562">spokes</a> I built my last wheel with (and a few others but none of them have had as much use as my commuter, which I also rode coast to coast fully loaded so I think these spokes are fine). </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9555#post-101535 Fri, 22 Feb 2013 11:51:50 +0000 chdot 101535@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/chdot/8497714790/"><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8526/8497714790_038452cd52.jpg"></a></p> <p>Lesson 2 later. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9555#post-101534 Fri, 22 Feb 2013 11:48:55 +0000 Wilmington's Cow 101534@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Sounds a plan. Can sort something out once I've got all the bits :) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9555#post-101533 Fri, 22 Feb 2013 11:46:47 +0000 Instography 101533@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="http://www.prowheelbuilder.com/spokelengthcalculator/">Another calculator</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9555#post-101532 Fri, 22 Feb 2013 11:45:44 +0000 Instography 101532@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I'll do it. I've got one to build anyway so it would be a case of sitting with the gear and Sheldon's web page and lacing them up. Doing up the spokes is the part that needs care. I just need to get the spokes off my favourite eBay seller and I'm ready to go. This will be my fourth or fifth. Going by the success of my latest dynamo wheel, which has never needed truing since I built it about 6 months ago, my method works out OK. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9555#post-101531 Fri, 22 Feb 2013 11:41:14 +0000 kaputnik 101531@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I'll do it. However seeing as I've never built a wheel before, it's a rather unfair trade of the contents of your Malt cupboard and Macaroon shelf for a duff wheel... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9555#post-101524 Fri, 22 Feb 2013 11:30:31 +0000 chdot 101524@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="http://www.wheelpro.co.uk/spokecalc" rel="nofollow">http://www.wheelpro.co.uk/spokecalc</a></p> <p>"evening wheelbuilding lesson"</p> <p>My method takes 5 minutes. </p> <p>Just get 4 spokes sorted - 2 either side of valve hole. (Other teaching/lacing methods are available.) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9555#post-101519 Fri, 22 Feb 2013 11:20:44 +0000 Wilmington's Cow 101519@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>So I've got a hub coming from Germanland, will be finding a nice rear hub, and rims and finding a spoke calculator while waiting for it all to arrive - so who would be around for an evening wheelbuilding lesson?*</p> <p>*I pay in alcoholic beverages and macaroons... </p>