Finished my first wheel and thought I'd get some feedback so I know if I need to re-do it before starting the other.
Wheel came out nicely dished and true. I'm concerned about my spokes though. Every two spokes going around the RIM enter a little shallow, then the next two a little deep and so on all around the wheel. I feel I barely have enough nipple threaded and then have almost exceeded the threads of the next two and the pattern repeats consistently through out the rim. The spoke lengths were calculated on two websites and checked by my LBS and we ordered them rounding up. Spoke tension feels great.
Does this wheel appear correct or do I have problems to correct? At this point I feel I could ride it, I just wonder if I did do something wrong.
Yeah, mentioned it in the post. I used a dishing tool and got it very close to perfect. Spoke thing has got me really confused though... I can't make anything of it. And most importantly I wonder if someone could tell me if the spokes being that deep and shallow are WRONG or not? I have no wheel building info... so I'm clueless.
Yeah, mentioned it in the post. I used a dishing tool and got it very close to perfect. Spoke thing has got me really confused though... I can't make anything of it. And most importantly I wonder if someone could tell me if the spokes being that deep and shallow are WRONG or not? I have no wheel building info... so I'm clueless.
Wheels require specific spoke lengths for each side of the wheel,more so on the rear than the front and it looks to me as though you have the lengths mixxed up,drive side would require shorter spokes.
Yeah, mentioned it in the post. I used a dishing tool and got it very close to perfect. Spoke thing has got me really confused though... I can't make anything of it. And most importantly I wonder if someone could tell me if the spokes being that deep and shallow are WRONG or not? I have no wheel building info... so I'm clueless.
Actually, re read your post... No mention of dish anywhere. If the spoke lengths are wrong, use the correct lengths. Real world results should over rule anything a calculator says...
Cant tell if its a front or rear wheel, if it is rear then look at marquis's post, if it is the front then i dont know, i got the same thing wih my front wheel, but i did mine wrong, anyway, it looks like one side of your wheel isnt settled by the curved looking spokes (you do this my putting the wheel with the axle in, on a hard floor, and walking around the rim, then flipping it, walking around the rim, repeat until it stops sounding horrid) to be honest it isnt the end of the world, and it should hold up, just be more careful next time, and if you want to take it apart and try again then do, but i wouldnt say it needs doing
hang on, if that is a rear wheel you didnt try to dish it without the driver on it did you? if you did that is your problem, and check the dish by eye with the wheel on the bike to make sure
I figured it out. I was studying the wheel and found spokes traveling what should be an equal distance in opossit directios from the flange were consistently not threaded to the right and over threaded to the left. This gave the pattern I was seeing on the rim. Conclusion is I didn't rotate the hub enough from the start. I'm going to re-do it and the increased hub rotation will push and pull the spokes into their proper places.
Re-read my post and I said it came out nicesly DISHED and true
Well I took it all apart and started over. The problem was the rotation of the hub. I paid more attention to it during the build this time and made sure the spokes were reaching an equal distance in/out of the rim as I laced. I'm pumped I can build my own wheels now. Saves so much $$$
Any ways the DT spoke calculator worked perfectly. My spokes are seated nicely in the nipples, no threads showing under or sticking out above.
As far as my pattern, I ended up just studying a built wheel and going from there 8 at a time.
Finished my first wheel and thought I'd get some feedback so I know if I need to re-do it before starting the other.
Wheel came out nicely dished and true. I'm concerned about my spokes though. Every two spokes going around the RIM enter a little shallow, then the next two a little deep and so on all around the wheel. I feel I barely have enough nipple threaded and then have almost exceeded the threads of the next two and the pattern repeats consistently through out the rim. The spoke lengths were calculated on two websites and checked by my LBS and we ordered them rounding up. Spoke tension feels great.
Does this wheel appear correct or do I have problems to correct? At this point I feel I could ride it, I just wonder if I did do something wrong.
I'm pumped I can build my own wheels now. Saves so much $$$
As far as my pattern, I ended up just studying a built wheel and going from there 8 at a time.
Firstly how often do you build, or even get new wheels?
and secondly it would have been easier to use something like this
Anyway good job and i am happy it all came out well for you
I've never built a wheel before. I used to buy a new wheelset every couple of years. The bike radar lacing looks nice, but a bit more time consuming than the way I did it. Though speaking of time spent... I probably have around 10 hours in figuring out how to lace my first one. The second obviously went more quickly. Thanks for the link tho
Its the best way to get it right.and it means you start right, that is the hard bit, you just did it a weird way, look up any wheel building instructions and they say to do it the bike radar way...