Home wheel builds, worth it not not?

[idiotgap]

Inspiring thread, so much so that I bought some MDF yesterday and shopping for nuts and bolts at the moment to build a stand to the Roger Musson wheelpro design. Quite excited!

First job will be to replace the front rim on a Shimano WH-R501 I trashed in a crash, probably with an archetype.

[upsidedownmark]

G321 said:

They are tubeless ready using stans tape. I have been running mine tubeless since I built them 2 years ago

Only just seen this.. isn't pretty much anything tubeless ready using stans? IMHO tubeless ready means you can just bang a tyre on, drop in some sealant and go..

[JustinF]

Celtic Dragon said:

Thought I'd give a quick update. After a frustrating then enjoyable 2 hours last night I have a round spinny thing! Its not under tension yet and needs a true up, but I got it to within 1/4 inch of movement just by eye

I'll be taking it apart tonight and redoing it, as I released as I walked past it last night that I have laced it in 2 cross, not the 3 cross that I had planned, so the smug satisfied grin dissapeared of my face.
I'm sure I specced 3 cross when using the website, so either I'm missing something, the website is wrong or I've fluffed up as I'm sure I started trying to lace it 3 cross but the spokes weren't long enough so the hub ended up off centre (counted holes on the hub and rim in relation to the valve hole to get the first few spokes set in)

I did similar on my wheel build, got it all laced loosely, started tweaking nipples, ran out of thread and it was still just a loose spiderweb, yup that'd be 1x not 2x i'd bought spoke lengths for. All part of the learning curve

[Celtic Dragon]

Guess which muppet ordered spokes for a 2x instead of a 3x build!

Oh well, it will be fine.

[BenGismo]

Made a MTB (tubeless) rear wheel earlier this week and im just about to start putting together my spare front wheel now too (It should be a nice light 600 grams according to the weighing scales)



Stans crest rim (330g)
DT Swiss revolution spokes (124g for 28)
Sapim Aluminium black nipples (10g for 28)
Novatec 711SB hub (139g)

both in 3 cross lacing....Hopefully the calculations on lengths were right

Edited by BenGismo on Thursday 24th November 20:35