[CR]Re: Wheel Building observations

(Example: History:Ted Ernst)

From: <hersefan@comcast.net>
To: Classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Date: Thu, 05 May 2005 21:21:21 +0000
Subject: [CR]Re: Wheel Building observations

A few wheelbuilding thoughts

Modern high dish wheels are much harder to build than older 5 and 6sp wheels. In the old days, many sins wouldn't be a problem.

In the modern world of high dish rears (without asymetric rims) spoke prep and the use of tricks such as lighter guage on non-drive rears or radial lace patterns on the non-drive are extremely beneficial.

In the old days, less than perfectly uniform spoke tension might be OK. On modern high dish rears, if spoke tension is uneven, the non-drive side can have spokes with barely any tension at all. Use of a tensionometer becomes very useful. Now a good pluck of the spokes will indeed find a loose culprit, but it is really nice looking at the numbers. Besides, its also key to find the overly tight ones too when balancing tension.

Mike Kone in Boulder CO


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> i.m.o. its all about workmanship, a bit more ethereal than "hard science" ...
> and a LOT more accepting of uncontrolables like "experience" and "having the
> touch" ... that said I have a lot of respect for the process control-focus of
> mass producing wheels, I just think of my own wheels now-a-days as something
> other than mere consumables.
>
> Dale Phelps, Longmont CO
>
> Kurt Sperry wrote:
> wrote:
> >
> >
> > I think the bottom line is that there is more than one way of building a
> > perfectly good bicycle wheel.
>
>
> Whilst this is obviously true, I wonder if Brandt and Lickton et al would
>
> be too ideologically entrenched to admit the obvious. Wheelbuilding as it's
>
> frequently espoused seems like one part science and about four or five part
> s
> dogma.
> Kurt Sperry
> Bellingham WA
>
>
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