I build my own. Nothing else is as satisfying as riding your own wheels. And if something goes wrong with the wheel while riding, you know how to fix it!
Is it not really uneconimcal, most parts and rims are much cheaper and the tools required do not cost much. Mostly when the rim is burned out you can just reuse the hub.
Bike shop wanted £30 a wheel to do it, so I thought, "how hard can it be ?" Wasn't that difficult. I used the back wheel as a guide for the front, then the front as a guide for the back. Must have done about 8 now as I swap out the dull spokes on my old roadies for stainless steel ones.
I'm lacing my own wheel only because my rim and hub had to be ordered from two different shops, otherwise most online places build the wheel for "free" if you order all the wheel parts there.
Anyone attempting this should have this book. I build all my wheels and this book has been of untold value. Professional Guide to Wheel Building By Roger Musson
@John because books are usually where the accumulated wisdom is recorded and stored. Video may be instant but the written word has usually been properly considered in getting it onto paper. And if it's wrong it gets corrected. Books rock!
Literally everything you need to know, very little you don't need to know, very accessible and very easy to follow. Anyone who is vaguely technical can build a good wheel with his book.
I have ebike that I built myself and it came with an assembled wheel and hub motor.. Due to a horrible sidewalk now im forced to build a wheel.. I'm an accomplished auto mechanic with over 30yrs xp points, and during this little venture I've realized no matter how smart you are there's ALWAYS more to learn... 🤯
Building wheels is just so much fun, really adds another dimension to building up your own bike. Quite nice to just work on a wheel after a long day of work as well, just take time and go through the steps. It's highly addictive though, I now build all my own wheels + a lot for friends/family as well!
If I build a wheel for someone but they're going to buy the parts on their own and all, how much do you think is a humane compensation for building the wheel itself?
Just built my first one yesterday - a tough job that requires a lot of time and thinking (=patience). To me it is not really an exact science: I was working with much less sophisticated tools, those in the video are pretty high tech and price range... This way I will have to get into an extensive testing period on the bike. But I know the logic now and what is required to do this. It is a great feeling to have built the wheel by myself against all odds and service staff advice (="buy a new wheel/bike"). I think every rider should try it on a cheaper construction bike to understand and get a feeling of it.
I bet I'll now hear this guys voice in my head everytime I ride my DT Swiss XC wheels through rock gardens. "Maybe in the evening you can feel also... your arms."
sometimes a classic how to book does the trick! :) I had a bicycle maintenance book that I was 'raised' on as a mechanic. I still have it in my workspace.
It's all easy when you have all the tools and follow the instructions properly. I built a rear wheel for the 1st time and have done over 1000 miles and had no issues, but I think it's more to the fact that I invested in a park tool spoke tension tool at the cost of £50 which I personally think it's a must have tool for wheel building.
I build my first pair of wheels about 3 years ago and they are still rideable. Now I have so many now I have some pairs of wheels I don't what to do with them, lol It is very addictive.
well I just went to the page that you suggest and the written instruction in there are just bad as they mix info and the drawings are not good at all, perhaps a good video will be needed
I literally built my front and rear wheels for the first time yesterday to replace worn out hubs. They are holding together well so far. Wish me luck on the trails tomorrow =S
Wish this guy was working in the south burbs of Chicago. I'd be bringing over bmx wheels and hubs and asking him to build these for me, PLEASE. Awesome education.
this is exactly the sort of thinking i am very very poor at. i learn by rote, then upon successfully doing something, i dissect the process and can understand it from the inside out, but this way of learning is super slow for me. common sense stuff takes me a long time to absorb. good on ya for a good build!
Absolutely fascinating as I was thinking about building my own wheel. After watching this video, looks through off the peg options 😂 and starts another jam donut
I learned only in my late forties after a lifetime on bicycles and goofing around with them. I now make wheels for my adult children and occasionally for friends... although the saving is not what it was. It is a bizarrely calming and meditative process, although frustrating at times. And you get to make some silly wheels.....
I've been wanting to learn wheel building for the longest time. I've built bikes from scratch from the bare frame up, including pressing in headset bearings. Wheel building is just about the only thing I haven't tried myself.
Give it a go on a cheap wheel. The first time I did it was because I was too broke to buy a new wheel, but I had two busted wheels from two different bikes, one with cracked rim, and one with busted axle. They had the same number of spokes, so I just zip tied the rims together and swapped over the spokes one by one. That doesn't even require learning the lacing pattern, so it's an easy start to wheel building.
It really is too. This video is great for giving someone with no experience a taste of the process, and those with lots, something to dissect and discuss. But there's no real need to take a course. Choose your components, find a decent tutorial and sit down on a rainy day and start. My first set I had to relace a couple times before I got the spokes oriented right, but accept it takes some patience and a quiet, focused mindset. But that might be the hardest part.
After I spoke to a few wheel building masters, I tend to leaver it up to the pros. One day I may build my own wheel set but for now I enjoy rim doing it for me!
Haven't heard AASHTA in ages, was very sad when the old man passed but it seems his legacy is still there. I've built some real franken-freak wheels (to carry my clydesdale-plus carcass) using his guide, the craziest was a cross-4 equal length crow's foot cross wheelset in 36 hole.
How to make wheel building easier: 1. use less parts 2. Fabricate most of the parts via homebrewn manufacturing, ie 3D printing and CNC? 3. Less spokes, stronger shock absorbers, but with mounts (connected to where the spokes would normally go) that allow them to absorb impacts across a larger part of the rim’s circumference, ie. 3 pneumatic/spring shock absorbers with 120° mounts.
Important question!!! How should I set the spoke path? When a spoke crosses another, should I make it cross from the inside or the outside? Or, should I just cross all the subsequent spokes ON the spokes that are already set?
Astral'o Pithecus You can build working wheels either way. I prefer to start by inserting the trailing spokes on both sides: these are the ones that run on the inside of the hub flange and ’pull’ when you put the power down on the pedals. This way, the leading spokes will cross on the inside, and will bend inward with some heavy pedaling as the trailing spokes are pulled tight. If done the opposite way, there’s a (minute) chance that looser spokes will catch on your mech cage when you pedal hard, as they bend outwards.
Wow, that seems complex. I used Sheldon Brown's guide to wheel building, it seems much easier to follow; had i not, i might not have even attempted to build the wheel in the first place! Turned out alright, too! did end up having to re-do my work a couple times but i'm an idiot. Also i remember Raoul Luescher had some wisdom to spare re: spoke tension/wheel stiffness. Highly recommend looking that up.
Finished my first wheel build today. A few pointers... As step 0. Check to make sure that all your new spokes are exactly the same size and your LBS didn't give you a short one by mistake. On the first pass , tighten the spokes at the minimum possible so that they'll hold on to the nipple. Once everything is together, if you have a rim brake , mount the wheel on the bike, use a zip tie to tighten the brake one click at a time and tighten it little by little finding the place where it touches the brake, until it touches on both sides at the same time.
I've just watched a long haired teenager build a wheel in 15 minutes and you just made it look like you're building the space shuttle!! Not everyone is racing the Tour de France!
Depending on where you live...there's a great shop with an amazing wheel building in Northern VA that teaches wheel building and you can also go to NC to the Appalachian Bicycle Institute for a class. Both are amazing from what I hear. I'm sure there's plenty of other places to learn as well. Those are just two I know of in my region.
Sheldon brown's website has some reasonably decent wheelbuilding instructions. I would look for the stuff on spoke tension by ear as well, since he says some kind of dated things about spoke nipples rounding, and also recommends doing the non-drive side dry (which I disagree with), but as far as the lacing, and general process goes, it's quite good. Another good book is "the bicycle wheel" by Jobst Brandt.
I learned to build wheels when I was 15. It was harder then. 36 spokes and softer less precision rims made truing a bigger challenge. The better rims have made thing so much easier. Now a days wheels come prebuilt more commonly and wheel building is not a very practiced skill as it was.
I just started learning to build wheels so maybe I'm wrong but your diagram, like the one at 8:30 seems wrong. I think you want to center the wheel in respect to the dropouts of the frame and NOT the center of the hub...right?
Can you convert a 12/142mm thru-axle wheel into 135mm Quick release fairly simple? I want to get a couple of entry level DT Swiss wheels but they're all thru-axle and my bike has quick release. I have seen conversion kits. But then there's the width difference.
Yesterday, the nipple spoke on my wheel unscrewed and dislodged. So, I fixed it myself by removing the inner tube and screwing the nipple spoke back to its position. Many questions came to my mind. How can I know it is tightened enough? Is it evenly distributed the force? Can I do it myself without any additional equipments? Or Must I bring the wheel to the professional to fix it? Thank you for your answers in advance.
Hey Si... really quite cool to see the process.. One quick question.. did the master allude to using tapping the spokes to determine the Art of the tune? ref from a animated movie of a Mom tuning her sons wheels.. IM sure you know this cinematic masterpiece..
Hi GCN, love your videos. Have to say that this once is a bit too detailed to be interesting the the casual observer and not detailed enough to show the home mechanic how to build a wheel with ordinary tools and missing out important info on thread prep, selecting our components, truing without a stand, stress relieving without a flippin' hydraulic press... Just my opinion, as I said, big fan of your other stuff!
Your voice over sounds like one who would explain how to rally race. A good tutoral voice orcer. I will say your laking the small details needed to understand. How you bringe that up to you. but I like it!
Guy: "Now it's for DT Swiss... we have a rule. Every time it's the DT Swiss [logo], it's on the valve hole." Si: "Ah, OK! So your tire logo is lined up with your hub logo." Seems like he understood exactly what he said.
I've used pitch to check tension while truing wheels, and it can apparently be used in wheel building in place of a tensiometer: www.sheldonbrown.com/spoke-pitch.html
Eleanor Law this tends not to work because its hard to know what pitch is the right one. Best rule of thumb for me is getting the wheel as tight as possible.
It's no worse than grabbing a couple and squeezing, it's a matter of how much experience you have. But if you have a musical ear (as I do), "plunking" them to check for uniformity of tension is very accurate.
It works fine. If you follow links from that page you'll find a link to a table of spoke lengths to musical pitch. I've built lots of wheels this way and have checked them with a tensiometer, and they've always been quite reasonable. "As tight as possible" has a lot of variables. If you're using good quality parts and lubing the threads like you should, it's actually not hard to over-tension and break things. Most people who do it by feel tend to under-tension by quite a lot, which leads to weak wheels that will need truing often, and likely be breaking spokes within a couple years of regular riding (at best).
I have a 24 spoke wheels and I would like to convert it to disc brake. Is it recommendable to do it. The spoke count does affect on performance with a disc brake. Could it be a little risky?
HELP 😳I want to retain my 48 spoke wheel but want to change the hub to a 3 speed 36 hole hub SUGGESTIONS ? Or recommendations/web sights to look for help. Please Thanks in advance
I have a hub with a dynamo with 3 gears that I need to attach to the rim of my bike but no technician knows the length of the wheel required for this hub. Can you tell the length?
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Do you build your own wheels or leave it to the master wheelbuilders like Marcel? Let us know here! 🚲
I have build my own front wheel with dynamo hub for ultra endurance rides. Local bike shop said it was difficult, but I did it completely myself.
I build my own. Nothing else is as satisfying as riding your own wheels. And if something goes wrong with the wheel while riding, you know how to fix it!
Front wheels are usually easier, since most of the time they are laced radially. But it's mostly about keeping a level head and having some patience.
The way I used to build wheels was to find one that was already built, and copy it.
/ashamed
I had to do it. I have a vintage pinarello bike with a special hub. So I had to reuse it and only change the rim to fix my wheel...
After witnessing this level of precision I am beginning to question the quality of every wheel in my garage.
building my own wheel is time consuming, uneconomical, mentally challenging, unnecessary, and difficult which is exactly why I want to do it.
Is it not really uneconimcal, most parts and rims are much cheaper and the tools required do not cost much. Mostly when the rim is burned out you can just reuse the hub.
:)
Bike shop wanted £30 a wheel to do it, so I thought, "how hard can it be ?"
Wasn't that difficult.
I used the back wheel as a guide for the front, then the front as a guide for the back.
Must have done about 8 now as I swap out the dull spokes on my old roadies for stainless steel ones.
@@bincvanlaere6861 At least in DT Swiss's middle range (alloy) wheels, 350 hubs, bladed spokes the price difference is 10€ at most.
I'm lacing my own wheel only because my rim and hub had to be ordered from two different shops, otherwise most online places build the wheel for "free" if you order all the wheel parts there.
@10:23 Literally right when he said "you can hear the sound from the spokes" the music came on and you couldn't hear anything! thanks...
Gawd that was annoying! Wanted to hear the spokes and out of blue comes this annoying music.
I was lost on the second spoke, hahaha
Anyone attempting this should have this book. I build all my wheels and this book has been of untold value. Professional Guide to Wheel Building
By Roger Musson
@John because books are usually where the accumulated wisdom is recorded and stored.
Video may be instant but the written word has usually been properly considered in getting it onto paper. And if it's wrong it gets corrected. Books rock!
Literally everything you need to know, very little you don't need to know, very accessible and very easy to follow. Anyone who is vaguely technical can build a good wheel with his book.
I was listening to you Simon but also the other wheel builder on his cordless drill his motor timing was spot on every time . Thanks for showing .
Now we all know why high end wheels cost so much. This guy is a true craftsman.
I have ebike that I built myself and it came with an assembled wheel and hub motor.. Due to a horrible sidewalk now im forced to build a wheel.. I'm an accomplished auto mechanic with over 30yrs xp points, and during this little venture I've realized no matter how smart you are there's ALWAYS more to learn... 🤯
Mann So much time and labor goes just to this .
I always thought how to videos were meant to inspire you to do it !
Building wheels is just so much fun, really adds another dimension to building up your own bike. Quite nice to just work on a wheel after a long day of work as well, just take time and go through the steps. It's highly addictive though, I now build all my own wheels + a lot for friends/family as well!
I have to agree. there is something meditative about doing your own bicycle maintenance
Kryghyzho dude I tried to build my wheel and got a oval shape
Hey! I just made a cup of tea, sat down and turned this on!
All I got from this is to let someone who knows what they're doing build your wheels.
Agreed 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Definitely...I thought it shouldn't be that hard then I seen this video 🤔🤯
If I build a wheel for someone but they're going to buy the parts on their own and all, how much do you think is a humane compensation for building the wheel itself?
Right
@@julz19 i got charged 15 usd but varies from place to place
This vid just saved me about $100 on having my LBS replace my hub. You guys are da best.
Thanks, I have been saying it for years, building and truing wheels is both an art and a science. Talk about tying and soldering spokes.
*IF* you have a DT Swiss Wheel give away, please don't let it be Si's wheels!
Just built my first one yesterday - a tough job that requires a lot of time and thinking (=patience). To me it is not really an exact science: I was working with much less sophisticated tools, those in the video are pretty high tech and price range... This way I will have to get into an extensive testing period on the bike. But I know the logic now and what is required to do this. It is a great feeling to have built the wheel by myself against all odds and service staff advice (="buy a new wheel/bike"). I think every rider should try it on a cheaper construction bike to understand and get a feeling of it.
Wow I can really hear his Swiss accent!
I bet I'll now hear this guys voice in my head everytime I ride my DT Swiss XC wheels through rock gardens. "Maybe in the evening you can feel also... your arms."
AtDiT "We have a rule . . ." Of course you do. This is why I love the Swiss.
sorry guys but I think he's german
Swiss guy here, judging by his accent he is probably from the eastern part of switzerland *flies away*
I've taught myself how to build wheels, and I've built 3 pair now in my living room. I was greatly inspired by Jobst Brandt's book 'The Bicycle Wheel'
Yep, good book. One of the few that's on point with the science.
sometimes a classic how to book does the trick! :) I had a bicycle maintenance book that I was 'raised' on as a mechanic. I still have it in my workspace.
This is something we never think about and take for granted. I would've thought the job would be done by a machine, not a human.
Great video, I have been meaning to get 'round' to building a wheel and after many years I may give it a try! Awesome instructions by Marcel :)
It's all easy when you have all the tools and follow the instructions properly. I built a rear wheel for the 1st time and have done over 1000 miles and had no issues, but I think it's more to the fact that I invested in a park tool spoke tension tool at the cost of £50 which I personally think it's a must have tool for wheel building.
I build my first pair of wheels about 3 years ago and they are still rideable. Now I have so many now I have some pairs of wheels I don't what to do with them, lol It is very addictive.
Still confusing
LOL I learned this in middle school
Look up Sheldon Brown's wheelbuilding page, this video is clearly not meant to teach you how to build a wheel, just to show the basic procedure.
well I just went to the page that you suggest and the written instruction in there are just bad as they mix info and the drawings are not good at all, perhaps a good video will be needed
This is over kill on building a wheel!
I think the pictures are wrong.
I literally built my front and rear wheels for the first time yesterday to replace worn out hubs. They are holding together well so far. Wish me luck on the trails tomorrow =S
One year later, how are they holding up!?
Two years later, how are they holding up?
Well... I feel we may start thinking to ask how it went on year 3... to his nearest kind... 😅
If we havent heard from the guy this long then i reckon it didnt go too well 😂😂
Did you die?
I think it s a real job to built a wheel.
Next week, I'm going to start my first wheels on a vintage bike.
Good job to repair and built bikes.
Wish this guy was working in the south burbs of Chicago. I'd be bringing over bmx wheels and hubs and asking him to build these for me, PLEASE. Awesome education.
1st tym i build my own WS almost perfect..i watch on RUclips 10x😁😁
wheely good video this
Well spoken
deldridg wheel spoken
Ouch!😉
works like a charm, build my wheel in first try.... usually i need few tries. thx
this is exactly the sort of thinking i am very very poor at. i learn by rote, then upon successfully doing something, i dissect the process and can understand it from the inside out, but this way of learning is super slow for me. common sense stuff takes me a long time to absorb. good on ya for a good build!
Absolutely fascinating as I was thinking about building my own wheel. After watching this video, looks through off the peg options 😂 and starts another jam donut
I learned only in my late forties after a lifetime on bicycles and goofing around with them. I now make wheels for my adult children and occasionally for friends... although the saving is not what it was.
It is a bizarrely calming and meditative process, although frustrating at times.
And you get to make some silly wheels.....
The rims I wanted were only available on their own. I sourced and put it all together myself, then had them trued at my LBS.
I've been wanting to learn wheel building for the longest time. I've built bikes from scratch from the bare frame up, including pressing in headset bearings. Wheel building is just about the only thing I haven't tried myself.
Give it a go on a cheap wheel. The first time I did it was because I was too broke to buy a new wheel, but I had two busted wheels from two different bikes, one with cracked rim, and one with busted axle. They had the same number of spokes, so I just zip tied the rims together and swapped over the spokes one by one. That doesn't even require learning the lacing pattern, so it's an easy start to wheel building.
A TRUE art form this.... ;)
Yup that's all the instruction I need...heads to ebay to buy hub, rims and spokes.
It really is too. This video is great for giving someone with no experience a taste of the process, and those with lots, something to dissect and discuss.
But there's no real need to take a course. Choose your components, find a decent tutorial and sit down on a rainy day and start. My first set I had to relace a couple times before I got the spokes oriented right, but accept it takes some patience and a quiet, focused mindset. But that might be the hardest part.
Thank you for this video. I too have wanted to build a wheel. Really appreciate this.
Has been riding a bike for 27 years. You look like you're 21 years old mate!
Exactly my thoughts.
That was a fascinating episode. Really enjoyed it, and learnt new stuff...always good 😁
Wow that was good, detailed, looks complicated but very impressive!
After I spoke to a few wheel building masters, I tend to leaver it up to the pros. One day I may build my own wheel set but for now I enjoy rim doing it for me!
Sheldon Brown has a great tutorial for this with color coded spoke diagrams for newbies.
I can't find it. Is it on RUclips or on Google?
@@chriswarr3676 Search for Sheldon Brown Wheel Building in Google. I tried to attach the link but it keeps getting removed.
@@kayg2125 thank you
Haven't heard AASHTA in ages, was very sad when the old man passed but it seems his legacy is still there.
I've built some real franken-freak wheels (to carry my clydesdale-plus carcass) using his guide, the craziest was a cross-4 equal length crow's foot cross wheelset in 36 hole.
How to make wheel building easier:
1. use less parts
2. Fabricate most of the parts via homebrewn manufacturing, ie 3D printing and CNC?
3. Less spokes, stronger shock absorbers, but with mounts (connected to where the spokes would normally go) that allow them to absorb impacts across a larger part of the rim’s circumference, ie. 3 pneumatic/spring shock absorbers with 120° mounts.
Enjoyed the process .
I recently built my own rear wheel with DT Swiss hub and asymmetric rim, but I just laced it, then took it to a bike shop to be trued.
I do everything with regards to mechanics on my bike........ except building wheels!! 😄 Man this is a full time job.
Important question!!! How should I set the spoke path? When a spoke crosses another, should I make it cross from the inside or the outside? Or, should I just cross all the subsequent spokes ON the spokes that are already set?
You don't HAVE to interlace but the conventional approach is to interlace at the 3rd crossing for 3x.
Astral'o Pithecus You can build working wheels either way. I prefer to start by inserting the trailing spokes on both sides: these are the ones that run on the inside of the hub flange and ’pull’ when you put the power down on the pedals. This way, the leading spokes will cross on the inside, and will bend inward with some heavy pedaling as the trailing spokes are pulled tight. If done the opposite way, there’s a (minute) chance that looser spokes will catch on your mech cage when you pedal hard, as they bend outwards.
Wow, that seems complex. I used Sheldon Brown's guide to wheel building, it seems much easier to follow; had i not, i might not have even attempted to build the wheel in the first place!
Turned out alright, too! did end up having to re-do my work a couple times but i'm an idiot.
Also i remember Raoul Luescher had some wisdom to spare re: spoke tension/wheel stiffness. Highly recommend looking that up.
Finished my first wheel build today.
A few pointers...
As step 0. Check to make sure that all your new spokes are exactly the same size and your LBS didn't give you a short one by mistake.
On the first pass , tighten the spokes at the minimum possible so that they'll hold on to the nipple.
Once everything is together, if you have a rim brake , mount the wheel on the bike, use a zip tie to tighten the brake one click at a time and tighten it little by little finding the place where it touches the brake, until it touches on both sides at the same time.
Marcel looks grieved at 10:50😁🤸🙂
A marvelous video. Tremendous. Very helpful.
Build them myselft using UBI method & Yes, I'm Swiss and use a DT Tensio
Really cool video I liked it so much thanks for taking the time to do this video
You can adjust spoke tensions by sound also.
I've just watched a long haired teenager build a wheel in 15 minutes and you just made it look like you're building the space shuttle!! Not everyone is racing the Tour de France!
I just Laced my first wheel. And Yes I agree its very Therapautic, and a I imagine a lot like "Knitting ". Lol
So lucky, wish I had access to a pro like that!
I build my own but take 2-4 hours as I aim for .1mm but if got from any shop most be a good 3mm out and you can custom make them with parts you want
Their aluminium DiCut wheels are incredible
i would pay so much money for a wheel building course, thats something i really want to learn !
Depending on where you live...there's a great shop with an amazing wheel building in Northern VA that teaches wheel building and you can also go to NC to the Appalachian Bicycle Institute for a class. Both are amazing from what I hear. I'm sure there's plenty of other places to learn as well. Those are just two I know of in my region.
Just buy Roger Musson's "Professional Guide to Wheel Building" book and you can do it. Spend the rest on hubs and rims... :)
Sheldon brown's website has some reasonably decent wheelbuilding instructions. I would look for the stuff on spoke tension by ear as well, since he says some kind of dated things about spoke nipples rounding, and also recommends doing the non-drive side dry (which I disagree with), but as far as the lacing, and general process goes, it's quite good.
Another good book is "the bicycle wheel" by Jobst Brandt.
I learned to build wheels when I was 15. It was harder then. 36 spokes and softer less precision rims made truing a bigger challenge. The better rims have made thing so much easier. Now a days wheels come prebuilt more commonly and wheel building is not a very practiced skill as it was.
Just learning how to lace a wheel saves me much when buying new set, I just have to get it to the bike shop for truing.
VAustin89 just buy truing stand and save more
Or make one, plenty of ideas of DIY stands online. I made the simplest one possible just last week: imgur.com/a/e4teG
Or just use an upside-down bike. I did my first half dozen wheels that way.
I just started learning to build wheels so maybe I'm wrong but your diagram, like the one at 8:30 seems wrong. I think you want to center the wheel in respect to the dropouts of the frame and NOT the center of the hub...right?
I'm a do it yourself type guy and I built my wheels and they came out like they were done by a professional
Can you convert a 12/142mm thru-axle wheel into 135mm Quick release fairly simple? I want to get a couple of entry level DT Swiss wheels but they're all thru-axle and my bike has quick release.
I have seen conversion kits. But then there's the width difference.
I tried this lacing method and it drove me nuts.
Yesterday, the nipple spoke on my wheel unscrewed and dislodged. So, I fixed it myself by removing the inner tube and screwing the nipple spoke back to its position. Many questions came to my mind. How can I know it is tightened enough? Is it evenly distributed the force? Can I do it myself without any additional equipments? Or Must I bring the wheel to the professional to fix it?
Thank you for your answers in advance.
Hey Si... really quite cool to see the process.. One quick question.. did the master allude to using tapping the spokes to determine the Art of the tune? ref from a animated movie of a Mom tuning her sons wheels.. IM sure you know this cinematic masterpiece..
Great Video. Thanks
Hi GCN, love your videos. Have to say that this once is a bit too detailed to be interesting the the casual observer and not detailed enough to show the home mechanic how to build a wheel with ordinary tools and missing out important info on thread prep, selecting our components, truing without a stand, stress relieving without a flippin' hydraulic press... Just my opinion, as I said, big fan of your other stuff!
I build my own wheels. I'm planning to do a video on how I do it soon. I just need to edit together all the footage.
Meyrin/Switzerland? Yeah!
Your voice over sounds like one who would explain how to rally race. A good tutoral voice orcer. I will say your laking the small details needed to understand. How you bringe that up to you. but I like it!
1:48
Master Wheel builder: ”"???¿?? ????, ?¿¿¿??? 9'er ?????.""
Si: ""okay""
Guy: "Now it's for DT Swiss... we have a rule. Every time it's the DT Swiss [logo], it's on the valve hole."
Si: "Ah, OK! So your tire logo is lined up with your hub logo."
Seems like he understood exactly what he said.
Marcel was so soft spoken.
Building wheels this way except with a dynamo hub, where the hub itself has a larger diameter, you would use the 2-skip method instead of 4 right?
I couldn't afford to have have Mr. Waldmann build a wheel for me.
Does the initial spoke method/sequence change based on rim holes (28/32) or is it the same no matter what?
Thanks for the video. I didn’t get what the compression bit was for though?
Thank you so much.
Interesting video, nowadays I've seen robots building and truing bike wheels. That's remarkable...
Is there a reference how much tension do u put for the left and the right ? For each brand ?
"Put the spoke in four holes over"
*shows picture with like three holes total in it*
4 holes was for the next set of spokes, thats what the guy says at that point in time.
I've used pitch to check tension while truing wheels, and it can apparently be used in wheel building in place of a tensiometer: www.sheldonbrown.com/spoke-pitch.html
Eleanor Law this tends not to work because its hard to know what pitch is the right one. Best rule of thumb for me is getting the wheel as tight as possible.
It's no worse than grabbing a couple and squeezing, it's a matter of how much experience you have. But if you have a musical ear (as I do), "plunking" them to check for uniformity of tension is very accurate.
It works fine. If you follow links from that page you'll find a link to a table of spoke lengths to musical pitch. I've built lots of wheels this way and have checked them with a tensiometer, and they've always been quite reasonable. "As tight as possible" has a lot of variables. If you're using good quality parts and lubing the threads like you should, it's actually not hard to over-tension and break things.
Most people who do it by feel tend to under-tension by quite a lot, which leads to weak wheels that will need truing often, and likely be breaking spokes within a couple years of regular riding (at best).
I have a 24 spoke wheels and I would like to convert it to disc brake. Is it recommendable to do it. The spoke count does affect on performance with a disc brake. Could it be a little risky?
hi what would be the correct rim to use my tyre is 26x2.35 are is it not important also its drum brake sturmey archer hub cheers
HELP 😳I want to retain my 48 spoke wheel but want to change the hub to a 3 speed 36 hole hub SUGGESTIONS ? Or recommendations/web sights to look for help. Please Thanks in advance
I’m swapping hubs for my rim and I got a oval shape at the end......be careful as you could damage your rim
This video makes wheel building look like a scary wizardy unachievable thing and it’s really not this complicated ...
Great video, thanks a lot!!!
I have a hub with a dynamo with 3 gears that I need to attach to the rim of my bike but no technician knows the length of the wheel required for this hub. Can you tell the length?
When truing the rear wheel how do you accommodate the hub which the cassette sits on ?
I got lost at step 1 but kept watching to try to learn something
I'd get a HED GT3 front trispoke, and either rear 88mm or aero disc HED. 15t cog
i have 24 Hole Rims. would it be alright if i put 32H freehub ? how bad is it ? it's a folding bike btw. i didn't use it for racing nor for downhill.
So if i 'unspoke' my rim brake wheel, change the hub and spoke it again, i can change my rim brake to a disc brake wheel? Or am i missing something?
Please what is the compressed air tool at 8:40 ? Thanks
Wow! The most complicated way to lace spokes. Check out Jobst Brandt's book on the easy way to build a wheel. Seriously!
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