unless you have all the proper equipment for building a wheel (stand, spoke wrench's, extra spokes, etc.) don't even bother trying to build a wheel for the first time. its not hard, its actually pretty easy if you have your patterns right. its probably the most tedious thing to work on for your bike, after the first hour or so sitting there reading some stupid instruction sheet you printed off the internet you will stop caring about tightness, lengths, etc. then when you finally finish, its going to be more crooked then the American government. i made the same mistake. i bought a spoke wrench and though it would be easy to rebuild my wheel, tore it apart, screwed it up horribly.
right the easest way to do it would be this you will need tape and a spoke key start at the valve hole and tape every two spokes togither and do that for the whole wheel on both sides then take the spoke key and undo them all so when you have done that you will have all the spokes in the croect order just to fire it on to the other rim hope it helps
Is it just me or is it a known thing that re-tensioning your spokes is a really BAD thing to do to them and they will fail in no time.
Its common practice. Dont know where you heard that.
hmm, ill have to take your word for it. because I, just like you said just heard it from somebody. But it does somewhat make sense that tensioning, untensioning and re-tensioning puts strains on the metal. Its almost like bending it back and forth, except instead of just targeting one spot your stretching the whole thing. And it could just be common practise because its bad for them, but you probably know more than me on this one soo...
Is it just me or is it a known thing that re-tensioning your spokes is a really BAD thing to do to them and they will fail in no time.
Its common practice. Dont know where you heard that.
hmm, ill have to take your word for it. because I, just like you said just heard it from somebody. But it does somewhat make sense that tensioning, untensioning and re-tensioning puts strains on the metal. Its almost like bending it back and forth, except instead of just targeting one spot your stretching the whole thing. And it could just be common practise because its bad for them, but you probably know more than me on this one soo...
Rolling around does the same thing every time you ride. Spokes are made out of a steel that has good strain properties. Theyve designed them for this.
unless you have all the proper equipment for building a wheel (stand, spoke wrench's, extra spokes, etc.) don't even bother trying to build a wheel for the first time. its not hard, its actually pretty easy if you have your patterns right. its probably the most tedious thing to work on for your bike, after the first hour or so sitting there reading some stupid instruction sheet you printed off the internet you will stop caring about tightness, lengths, etc. then when you finally finish, its going to be more crooked then the American government. i made the same mistake. i bought a spoke wrench and though it would be easy to rebuild my wheel, tore it apart, screwed it up horribly.
hey i hace a commencal furious and dont like the singletrack rims so was looking for new rims no new spokes no new hub just new rim are they hard to fit or easy? i have ok bike knowledge
Having a Wheelsmith build your wheel would be the best thing
find someone who Rides and has built many wheels.
If you want to start learning to build on your own, start with a low end wheel that doesn't matter much.
Or see if you can watch them build yoru wheel to learn a bit.