What did you do TO / WITH / FOR your bike today!

I finished my rear wheel.
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Looked at it again :confused:

Last time I got out for a proper ride was the end of Jan, although I took the kids out in Feb. Been a busy few weeks.
Need to get out and clear my head though, a lot of stuff buzzing round in there but I doubt it'll be this weekend

Also toying with flogging my roadie and getting a groadie instead and hitting the railway trails, but have seen a 2021 Epic Evo Comp on Facebook for cheap I'm thinking of picking up - although unsure if there's any point when I've got my Honzo gathering dust.
With the Shotgun on the eeb, there's decent scope to get that out instead and start getting a bit fitter.
 
Rusty_68 said:
Not to be a dickhead about this, but are you confident that wheel is laced correctly?
I just see a couple of worrying spoke combos going on there?
I really hope to be proved wrong, but want you to be safe.
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Looks like a 2x spoke pattern.

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Oddjob said:
Looks like a 2x spoke pattern.

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I realise it's probably 2 cross, but it doesn't look right to me. Could just be the angle of the picture?

I only mention it, becasue we had a customer in the shop today, with a carbon Roval XC wheel, that he built himself and laced it up wrong. This was onto a DT 350 straight pull hub.

It lasted 20mins of XC and destroyed itself. I now have the new rim and will build it up topmorrow. It failed because of the incorrect lacing. Don't want it to happen to anyone else. But like I say, I'm not the only wheel builder on this forum and if Bigdamo knows what he's doing, that's cool with me.
 
bigdamo said:
No not confident it's the first wheel I've built.
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If you can, maybe swing by your LBS and get them to take a Quick Look. They will tell you if it’s correct or not.

It’s even more important to get it right on a straight pull hub, as the spokes usually do NOT go “under/over”, which means there is less strength tension along the line of the spoke.
 
Rorschach said:
Looked at it again :confused:

Last time I got out for a proper ride was the end of Jan, although I took the kids out in Feb. Been a busy few weeks.
Need to get out and clear my head though, a lot of stuff buzzing round in there but I doubt it'll be this weekend

Also toying with flogging my roadie and getting a groadie instead and hitting the railway trails, but have seen a 2021 Epic Evo Comp on Facebook for cheap I'm thinking of picking up - although unsure if there's any point when I've got my Honzo gathering dust.
With the Shotgun on the eeb, there's decent scope to get that out instead and start getting a bit fitter.
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Go the Epic! I honestly think mtb are better suited to most fire roads around Perth.
 
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Rusty_68 said:
If you can, maybe swing by your LBS and get them to take a Quick Look. They will tell you if it’s correct or not.

It’s even more important to get it right on a straight pull hub, as the spokes usually do NOT go “under/over”, which means there is less strength tension along the line of the spoke.
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I have a old Mavic wheelset with straight pull hub which I had next to my new wheel build for checking the spoke pattern when lacing my new wheel
 
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