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

[steve jobs' pancreas]

Went to H2O to become reacquainted with the Prime.

H2O is an xc track, no real hill climbs, a windy pedally, a little bit techy at times track. Some jumps and some berms, I really like the track for just fast pedalling winding between trees fun.

Had a ball, came back with all my teef!!!

 

[Boom King]

Rode it first time as a 27.5 at the Yewies, cracking day. Can't say I noticed any real difference, aside from no pedal strikes (and I had put the nuetral chips in, replacing the slack).

Was an ace day riding with a few burners, @moorey, @teK--, cheers.

P.S. and @Hipstar , sorry.

 

[moorey]

Yeah. Kick arse day. Dedicated mine to coaching Quinn down Cressy. She can now do the whole track including rock gardens.
Felix is another matter. He was off playing with others and doing big lines that I’m glad I didn’t watch...

 

[Tubbsy]

Had a couple of runs up Stromlo this morning. Getting back in the car, took my shoes off and had a nice fat redback sitting on my big toe. It was a bit fucked up but alive.

Might stop leaving shoes outside.

 

[slowmick]

I went for a ride. Don't remember the last time i went out. My local hill went from an hour climb to well over 2 hours with 5 stops. Great day to be out. Especially in May.

LTIH - 2 x 10 gears with 3 x 9 fitness

 

[Lazmo]

Back from the centre, yesterday we rode wet and slimy Silvan, but today was back to dry knarly rockiness on the Goldfields trail near Castlemaine. Very nice.

 

[Hipstar]

Hit the yewies with some other people (well one is, other is a kind of unknown)

Ripper day and got a shitload quicker on cressy. Mondraker cracked the sads with a loose headset again after 4 runs, lucky I took the spitty just in case. Way faster on it.

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[Lazmo]

More Goldfields rockyness today... ace

 

[Boom King]

Started the new wheel build. Rear laced and nipples driven...

 

[slider_phil]

Started the new wheel build. Rear laced and nipples driven...

Nice

Something I'm going to have a crack at one of these days. Then I can say goodbye to bike shops once and for all

 

[Oddjob]

Nice

Something I'm going to have a crack at one of these days. Then I can say goodbye to bike shops once and for all

Until you realise it took you 5 hours and that someone who does it full time will do it better than you.

I've built a few wheelsets but the reailty is that I prefer to use that time with the family and just do the odd true now.

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[teK--]

Nice

Something I'm going to have a crack at one of these days. Then I can say goodbye to bike shops once and for all

Check out Rogers awesome book:

https://www.wheelpro.co.uk/wheelbuilding/book.php

I went from being a n00b who knew shit about wheel repair and building, to a provisional professional amateur who knows more about wheels now and about to give my first build a shot.

 

[slider_phil]

I've gone down the rabbit hole before reading books, trawling forms and watching videos on building wheels. I'm going to imagine the first set will take me a good long while. My frustration comes from my local shop taking 2 months to build my wheels and then when I got them back the spoke tension was super low, to the point where if I grabbed both sides I could almost make them touch. Some didn't even make a dull "ping" to the pluck. I tightened them myself, rode it hard then went over it again and I've just got them true and evenly tensioned by feel. If I was smart I would've just taken them right back but I'm just sick of dealing with them.

 

[Boom King]

I've gone down the rabbit hole before reading books, trawling forms and watching videos on building wheels. I'm going to imagine the first set will take me a good long while. My frustration comes from my local shop taking 2 months to build my wheels and then when I got them back the spoke tension was super low, to the point where if I grabbed both sides I could almost make them touch. Some didn't even make a dull "ping" to the pluck. I tightened them myself, rode it hard then went over it again and I've just got them true and evenly tensioned by feel. If I was smart I would've just taken them right back but I'm just sick of dealing with them.

Just do it! Time isn't really an issue and if you read Roger Musson's book, like @teK-- suggested, you will understand exactly what you're doing and why.

Best to just go down that road, stick to one philosophy as there are many in wheel building. Too much research can be very confusing.

When you want to do the deed, https://www.customcutspokes.co.uk are great for spokes and nipples. I got 70 Sapim Race spokes including brass nipples, shipped, for about $95.

 

[TheAzza]

I agree. Just do it.
It is a lot easier than it seems and as long as you have a few hours spare it is super rewarding.

I built my first set not long ago and abused the hell out of them not long after and they have held up perfectly well.

A shop that is on time constraints will usually do the best job possible, in the time they have available, which is not necessarily any better, or as good, as you will do yourself.


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[teK--]

I agree. Just do it.
It is a lot easier than it seems and as long as you have a few hours spare it is super rewarding.

I built my first set not long ago and abused the hell out of them not long after and they have held up perfectly well.

A shop that is on time constraints will usually do the best job possible, in the time they have available, which is not necessarily any better, or as good, as you will do yourself.


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Cant agree more. A shop might allow 1-1.5 hour. I once paid a fixed price for a build and they ran into issues so rushed the rest. Ended up with a wheel that was horribly (not) stress relieved. It pinged just by putting the tyre on.

 

[TheAzza]

Cant agree more. A shop might allow 1-1.5 hour. I once paid a fixed price for a build and they ran into issues so rushed the rest. Ended up with a wheel that was horribly (not) stress relieved. It pinged just by putting the tyre on.

The wheels I built were the first wheels I have had that did not ping at all on their first ride. I was extremely surprised.


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[slider_phil]

Thanks for all the links . My next set of wheels will be built by myself. Have already got more wheels then bikes at the moment but that can all be fixed with money .

Cheers!

 

[hifiandmtb]

Build your wheels over a few nights in front of the telly. It's just a repetitive thing, getting the spokes up to mostly tensioned & then it's an hour in the stand at the end to right them just so.

Well that's how I do it...

 

[Cardy George]

Haven't used quality nipples myself, but when I was building cheap wheels for the school's Pedal Prix/HPV (those pedal cars @The Duckmeister races) we used a drill and a flat screw driver bit that was ground down to leave a point in the middle of the tip. When the nipple was screwed down the spoke pushed the driver out of the hole, leaving the spokes with a roughly even tension.

I only ever built front wheels tho, they copped a higher lateral load, so this may or may not work for dished wheels.