In article
<6479111c-8f52-46f7-830a-453c6b6850c2@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
jim <skijoring@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> On May 7, 8:30 am, landotter <landot...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> > On May 6, 4:39 pm, "joseph.santanie...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
"
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > <joseph.santanie...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> > > On May 6, 8:46 pm, landotter <landot...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> >
> > > > On May 6, 7:22 am, jim <skijor...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> >
> > > > > Hi all, wondering if anyone out there has had experience with
their
> > > > > custom wheels, good or bad?
> >
> > > > If they're building them as Sheldon recommends and checking
tension--
> > > > I'd trust them for sure. The prices are extremely fair, $40 labor
per
> > > > wheel and $1 each per butted spoke. Mind, if you need a very
normal
> > > > combination of rim/spoke/hub--it's more economical and fun to just
get
> > > > a wheelinabox and tune them using Sheldon Brown's
instructions--takes
> > > > all of fifteen minutes, and they'll be as durable as something
hand
> > > > built.
> >
> > > It's even more fun to build them from his instructions!
> >
> > I don't know if it's fun in the classical sense, but it can be
> > meditative after you've gotten into it. Tuning a wheelinabox set,
> > riding them hard and discovering that you've managed to add stability
> > and value to a commodity is sort of the first little baby step until
> > you one day arrive at the point where you really need a hub and rim
> > combo that's unusual enough to require a custom build.
> >
> > I got to see a gal riding on one of my first sets of custom wheels in
> > the park this weekend, a trash heap huge orange German woman's bike
> > with 60cm bars and MA3s on a Sachs Torpedo hub with a premium
> > assortment of stainless recycled spokes from domestic and European
> > sponsors (consider the project, people). She'd ridden the snot out of
> > the thing the last year and had just been to the LBS to put a fine $40
> > top-of-the-line Electra basket on it, as she re****ted, "it had been
> > utterly bullet proof." Good wheels are good wheels, no matter what ya
> > bolt them to. Good wheels can make orange trash heap bikes pretty fun
> > bikes, especially if you add gold KMC chains. *bling*- Hide quoted
text -
> >
> > - Show quoted text -
>
> Yeah, my current rear wheel is a 36hole Deore hub on a 700C CR-18.
> I'm looking for something similar and none of the nashbar/performance/
> jenson offer those sorts of wheels. I have 5 years on this wheel, and
> the side of the rim is looking kind of grim after all the braking...I
> guess Performance has a decent 32 hole wheel with the CD coating. I
> could practice up on that one...
Replace the rim with a new CR-18 and go.
By replace, tape the new to the old,
loosen the old spokes until all are slack,
then move spokes one at a time to the new
rim. Be sure to lubricate the threads
and new spoke beds. Run up the tension
keeping the rim true, and balance the tension.
Done.
--
Michael Press
|
