wheelbuilding

[Becky]

Just stumbled across my old thread on wheelbuilding, and wanted to update it to say:

Wheeeee!!!! I've never had a better rear wheel than I have now! It's discernably stiffer, rolls like nobody's business, and TICKS. The hub is Hope and it lets everyone know it. I love it

I'll have to try my hand at building a wheel for my road bike too, next winter maybe.

Alright, that does it, I'm ordering rims and spokes today! I've been hemming and hawing about building a set of MTB wheels with the XTR hubs that I have, and you've convinced me to try it

What rim did you use, LPH? How long did it take you to finish the wheel as a rookie wheelbuilder? I'm wondering if I'll get to ride these this season. I have some experience truing/tensioning/dishing, and IME I'm very very slow

[lph]

Alright, that does it, I'm ordering rims and spokes today! I've been hemming and hawing about building a set of MTB wheels with the XTR hubs that I have, and you've convinced me to try it

What rim did you use, LPH? How long did it take you to finish the wheel as a rookie wheelbuilder? I'm wondering if I'll get to ride these this season. I have some experience truing/tensioning/dishing, and IME I'm very very slow

Cool!

It's a bit hard to estimate how long it took me, because in the meantime I got the original rear wheel fixed (i.e. I finally put the correct parts together in the correct order in the hub ) so I was in no hurry. I guess I spent maybe 4 or 5 evenings, but maybe just an hour or two each time. It takes focus and patience, which I don't have a lot of, so whenever I found myself getting a bit hungry or frustrated or unfocussed I just stopped. This was from scratch, I had never trued or tensioned a wheel before.

I haven't checked my wheel yet, I've ridden it for a week or so and have borrowed a tensiometer to check the tension. But it seems to be doing peachy

[Becky]

Thanks for the encouragement, LPH! Today has been a miserable drizzly raw day here in the Mid-Atlantic, so I took advantage of my indoor time to work on some new mountain bike wheels this afternoon. So far, the rear one is completely done- laced, trued, and tensioned. It's sooooo nice compared to my old one! Can't wait to ride it! After some dinner and a beer, I plan to lace up the front one

*bounces with excitement*

[lph]

Very cool! You're fast Hope they both turn out beautifully.

[Becky]

Very cool! You're fast Hope they both turn out beautifully.

I had great directions to work from, and that made all the difference. I used Roger Musson's e-book (http://www.wheelpro.co.uk/wheelbuilding/book.php) and it was worth every penny.