Nice bit of sunday wheel building......

[mark 2]

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....

[lazychubs]

they look well sweet mate

[oberonspacefruit]

nice.


restoring is where its at.


wallets are too easy.

[jimwise68]

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.

[piper]

I`d love to learn to do that,they look real sweet.....

[theRuler]

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 . . . .

[Stodgy]

Nice!

I must learn to lace wheels this year...

[theRuler]

it's easy.

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

[pickle]

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?

[Zippy]

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.

[mark 2]

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....

[rarman1]

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