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Nice bit of sunday wheel building......
« on: March 04, 2007, 09:07 PM »
Had these araya aero's off Jon W ages ago, absolutely battered with scratches and grubby spokes, got them powdered for £6 the pair, new spokes and suzue's and had a little tinker today. And then built some wheels. It can get frustrating but it's worth it.
Some of the spokes top right look old for some reason but it's all singing and blinging....




Offline lazychubs

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Re: Nice bit of sunday wheel building......
« Reply #1 on: March 04, 2007, 09:20 PM »
they look well sweet mate

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Re: Nice bit of sunday wheel building......
« Reply #2 on: March 04, 2007, 09:22 PM »
nice.


restoring is where its at.


wallets are too easy.
I want to touch ORB

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Re: Nice bit of sunday wheel building......
« Reply #3 on: March 04, 2007, 09:24 PM »
Good job mate.

That's the way to do it.

Lots of people building wheels now which is good. Espesh as there aren't many professional wheelbuilders about anymore.

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Re: Nice bit of sunday wheel building......
« Reply #4 on: March 05, 2007, 11:15 AM »
I`d love to learn to do that,they look real sweet..... :daumenhoch:

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Re: Nice bit of sunday wheel building......
« Reply #5 on: March 05, 2007, 11:23 AM »
nice.


restoring is where its at.


wallets are too easy.

amen bretheren

cant beat a nice wheelbuild. especially when you have stripped tatty hubs and rims and got them to rock again.

these blue arayas on shimano hubs were caked with 25 years of shit when i got them. spokes were rusty and dull. overall, the wheels were scrap.
strip, clean, scrub, scrape, polish, new spokes, rebuild . . . .


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Re: Nice bit of sunday wheel building......
« Reply #6 on: March 05, 2007, 11:49 AM »
Nice!

I must learn to lace wheels this year...

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Re: Nice bit of sunday wheel building......
« Reply #7 on: March 05, 2007, 11:51 AM »
it's easy.

if the guide seems hard to follow, copy another wheel.

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Re: Nice bit of sunday wheel building......
« Reply #8 on: March 05, 2007, 11:55 AM »
I plan to have a go myself......but i have one question......i have a pair of the same type of rims and small flange hubs.....but what size spokes do i need to buy?

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Re: Nice bit of sunday wheel building......
« Reply #9 on: March 05, 2007, 12:08 PM »
I didn't think about powdering a set of wheels. How does the braking feel afterwards?

I've just ahd a set of Aeros built but I may get them stripped and powdered then rebuilt.

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Re: Nice bit of sunday wheel building......
« Reply #10 on: March 05, 2007, 06:54 PM »
I didn't think about powdering a set of wheels. How does the braking feel afterwards?

I've just ahd a set of Aeros built but I may get them stripped and powdered then rebuilt.

I've not ridden these and probably won't, but Phil Spacefruit's are powdered on his red Quad, ask him. That's the beauty of aero's, because there's no shinesides or speedlines etc thery'e easy to restore.

And thanks for the positive comments chaps, got a few more to do at the mo, I'll show you as I go. The best and most helpful tip I had about wheelbuilding is as your lacing them (copy a wheel for this bit) leave 1 thread showing from the nipple so you know they're all equal tension at that point. And simply tighten each spoke the same amount of turns from there on and it should all be balanced. Start with maybe 6 turns per spoke and do the whole wheel and gradually build up the tension in the spokes. Never had a problem with my wheel builds following those rules....
« Last Edit: March 05, 2007, 07:02 PM by mark j. »

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Re: Nice bit of sunday wheel building......
« Reply #11 on: March 06, 2007, 05:38 PM »
there is something very satisfying about building a wheel, large mug of tea, radio,

there is a very good guide on g-sports website,
i built this at the weekend


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