Graydon
I know of someone who is one dymanic wheel builder, unfortunately she is in
Mississauga. I was impressed with what she showed me.
Mom on a Bike
Graydon Patterson wrote:
> On the topic of truing one's wheels, I had put off attending Bruce
> Timmerman's wheel building classes - until it was too late(bless his soul);
> does anyone know of similar classes put on by anyone even remotely
> experienced as Bruce.
>
> I have pretty much built, and rebuilt, all components of my bikes except for
> the wheels. And my fat little body plays havoc with busting spokes on my
> beater bikes. I am very happy with the carbon wheels I use on my good bike.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Roger Guillemette [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Saturday, September 08, 2001 23:08
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: [obc] advice on new rear wheel
> >
> >
> > Greg's point is well taken. The breakage of spokes on new rear wheels
> > can be due to poor construction, new spokes loosening up, or weight
> > extremes (such as carrying heavily laden panniers with groceries on or
> > touring gear). Judging from your description Derek, it may be just
> > loosening of new spokes which aren't being attended to. This problem
> > increases with wider gear blocks (i.e. 9 or 10 cogs on back
> > versus 6 or
> > 7 cogs). On new wheels you should always monitor and re-tighten any
> > loosening spokes and re-true frequently. I just rode a new bike home
> > from the store the other day, and the rear wheel was out of
> > true by the
> > time I got home. It's got a 9-gear cog block, and the spokes on the
> > non-cog side tend to loosen up very easily because it's impossible to
> > tighten them very much without taking the rim out of dish.
> >
> > Hope this is useful.
> >
> > Greg Franks wrote:
> > >
> > > >>>>> "dbarlas" == dbarlas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > [snip]
> > > dbarlas> on which I had the rear wheel rebuilt late
> > last year with
> > > dbarlas> 14g DT spokes. I have since put about 4000kms
> > on the bike
> > > dbarlas> and it has now started breaking spokes again. I dont
> > > dbarlas> think I am particularly rough on the bike - I
> > weigh anout
> > > dbarlas> 190 lbs and only ride on the road. I got the
> > bike in the
> > > dbarlas> summer of 2000.
> > > [snip]
> > >
> > > dbarlas> spokes. Does that sound reasonable? If anyone has any
> > > dbarlas> other recommendations for wheels, or general wheel
> > > dbarlas> advice, I would love to hear them.
> > >
> > > You didn't say where the spokes were breaking.
> > >
> > > Believe it or not, thinner spokes (higher gauge) often result in
> > > stronger wheels. Make sure your existing wheel is rebuilt with
> > > "double-butted" spokes*, or that the new wheel comes with double
> > > butted spokes. I weigh more than you do, and the only
> > spoke breakage
> > > that I've encountered was during a certain tandem ride years ago :-)
> > > (though the poor wheel was rather pretzeled prior to the breakage
> > > problems, so we sure knew why the wheel was failing :-).
> > >
> > > Try to find/buy a copy of "The Bicycle Wheel" by Jobst Brandt. It
> > > explains everything that you might every care to know about bicycle
> > > wheels and then some. You might try rebuilding your wheel yourself.
> > > ..greg
> > >
> > > ----
> > > * a technically incorrect term -- spokes aren't butted,
> > they're swaged
> > > (sp?).
> > >
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> > Roger Guillemette
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