Cyclelogical still rebuilding/building wheels

levitronix

Busted a rim today need a rebuild done ASAP

billy.fish

levitronix wrote: »

Busted a rim today need a rebuild done ASAP

BikeHub will be quicker i reckon...

levitronix

Whats bikehub and where is it ?

Raam

It's a bike shop in Howth.

billy.fish

levitronix wrote: »

Whats bikehub and where is it ?

What RAAM said

The chap who does the wheels is good at it.

Have a set of MTb wheels that have taken a good beating since they got built. reasonable prices too

levitronix

Will give em a call tomorrow, busted my powertap wheel what a bummer big dent in the rim

levitronix

Well ended up building the wheel myself, if your any way mechanical "trades back round" its a piece of cake building the wheel

Spoke tension was a bit one of one step forward two steps backwards but i got an average of 118 on the drive side with less than 2% difference, think that was due the welded area on the rim, very happy with it will see how it holds now to a pro built wheel

GTDolanator

levitronix wrote: »

Will give em a call tomorrow, busted my powertap wheel what a bummer big dent in the rim

when you say dent do you mean like egged or the rim is actually dented?

levitronix

Small dent in the rim like it been pinched together

Pigeon Reaper

Well done building the wheel. The most I've done is replace spokes and true the wheels. How long did the rebuild take? How did you manage the dishing?

nak

Cliff from Cyclelogical is now working in Eurocycles on south William St. He's great at wheel building.

levitronix

Pigeon Reaper wrote: »

Well done building the wheel. The most I've done is replace spokes and true the wheels. How long did the rebuild take? How did you manage the dishing?

Didnt need a dishing tool since i know where the center of the wheel is on the truing stand, dish is the easy bit its the tensioning pulls the wheel out of true and you go back over the wheel a few times lossening or tightening non drive side before you tension drive side again, start to finish including striping the old rim about 4 hours.
In the past year i spent about 75 euro leaving wheels for work to be done so i spent 120 euro and bought the gear and read up on it plus theres loads of info on the net, so the gear will pay for it self, i had to laugh when i checked the tension on my ksyriums after i done the powertap the tension was all over the place.
Would say a stand and tensiometer and torque wrench tools everyone should have and just do it yourself

cdaly_

Thus far I've been just putting the bike on the stand and using a thumbnail resting against a brake block as a truing gauge. I've only been taking out slight wobbles though. I presume a full build will require more...