Re: [CR]Being particular about wheel building

(Example: Framebuilders:Pino Morroni)

From: "Robert Clair" <r.clair@cox.net>
To: <hsachs@alumni.rice.edu>, <dartley@baltimorecountymd.gov>, "Classic Rendezvous" <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
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Subject: Re: [CR]Being particular about wheel building
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2008 22:27:32 -0500
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... not that it means anything ... i took a wheel building class earlier this year. actually it was just two of us and mr. bill, at spokes one in alexandria. anyway, we lined up the valve hole, sighted along the hub script, to the rim label. lined up pretty clean to us, and no problemo. unfortualtely we can't afford the tubulars that should find a home on ... clb wood rims, and phil wood track hubs. but they sure turned out "purdy"

robert clair
alexandria, va 22308


----- Original Message -----
From: Harvey Sachs
To: dartley@baltimorecountymd.gov


<classicrendezvous@bikelist.org> Sent: Monday, September 29, 2008 9:21 PM Subject: [CR]Being particular about wheel building


> Dan Artley, my good friend and gracious host, wrote:
> <snip>
>
> If you build the wheels yourself you can be as partic'lar as you wish. I
> like to line up the Campagnolo on the hub so it and the rim sticker are in
> the same line of sight, and of course, pulling spokes on the inside!
> ++++++++++++++++++++
> Well, Dan, that's fine and well, but let me share my own "meshugah"
> (craziness) of wheel-building and such.
>
> 1) the spokes that are most nearly parallel must bracket the valve hole.
> I'll reverse the direction of spokes on one flange if I have to, but I
> just hate having to mess with pumping up tires when the valve is offset
> into a compromised position. It just don't need to be thatway.
>
> 2) It's about the tire label, not the rim label. I insist on having the
> tire label at the valve hole. Always. Why? makes it much easier to find
> whether there is a piece of glass or such stuck in the tire after a flat.
> Once I find the leak in the tube, there are only two places that the tire
> could be affected, if the tire label was roughly centered on the valve
> hole, which then indexes the valve and tube to the tire.
>
> Why, this might have saved me a minute or two over the past four decades
> or so. But it does look cool, too.
>
> harvey "no psychobabble" sachs
> mcLean va