I love reading this thread. Its great. My first wheelbuild was for my dirtbike, going from an 18 inch to 21 inch front wheel. Rode the heck out of it. IIRC cross 2, MC shop calculated the spoke length, stock drum brake hub laced to an Akront rim. I think I was 14 or 15 at the time. About 15 yrs later a coworker wanted as quick and dirty as possible wheel build. I re-used spokes from a CA (cheap ass) bike and steel rims. Using Jobst Brandt's book for instruction, the wheel turned out fine but as another poster mentioned, the starting position was off by one spoke hole so the spokes were not parallel at the valve but crossing above it. My second wheel turned out with the spokes parallel at the valve stem, but like others, every fourth spoke was off. My 9 month old daughter was helping me at the time. Many moons later and and close to 100 wheelsets, I keep riding. I always think about my wheel building capabilities when zooming down a hill at 35-40 mph (I hit close to 50 mph on my San Andreas Fault tour) and ... I am writing this email. I think you would have to totally F-U the wheel for it to be hazardous. You will probably know there is a problem before it catastrophically flies apart. Hey, the spoke-rim system has been around for centuries. What could go wrong? (ben hur chariot race)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=frE9rXnaHpE Mike SLO CA On Monday, October 19, 2020 at 8:25:58 AM UTC-7, Steven Seelig wrote: > > So with COVID and all, I've decided that now is the time to do stuff that > I haven't ever done before. Learning to speak French is perhaps a bridge > too far - not so good at language. But it seems reasonable to think that I > can at least build a front wheel with a Dyno hub to put on the Sam I ride > in the means streets of DC and on some gravel. > > I have a truing stand but not a dishing tool. I would say I am a > competent wrencher. Of course anyone who has built up a wheel did it once > for the first time. Is this something I should take on? What are the odds > for success? Will I quit in frustration? > > Points of view encouraged. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/79c07554-2f45-4053-82ec-77877b87475ao%40googlegroups.com.
