BMX General > BMX Chat

Nice bit of sunday wheel building......

<< < (3/3)

mark 2:

--- Quote from: Zippy on March 05, 2007, 12:08 PM ---I didn't think about powdering a set of wheels. How does the braking feel afterwards?

I've just ahd a set of Aeros built but I may get them stripped and powdered then rebuilt.

--- End quote ---

I've not ridden these and probably won't, but Phil Spacefruit's are powdered on his red Quad, ask him. That's the beauty of aero's, because there's no shinesides or speedlines etc thery'e easy to restore.

And thanks for the positive comments chaps, got a few more to do at the mo, I'll show you as I go. The best and most helpful tip I had about wheelbuilding is as your lacing them (copy a wheel for this bit) leave 1 thread showing from the nipple so you know they're all equal tension at that point. And simply tighten each spoke the same amount of turns from there on and it should all be balanced. Start with maybe 6 turns per spoke and do the whole wheel and gradually build up the tension in the spokes. Never had a problem with my wheel builds following those rules....

rarman1:
there is something very satisfying about building a wheel, large mug of tea, radio,

there is a very good guide on g-sports website,
i built this at the weekend

Navigation

[0] Message Index

[*] Previous page