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How many spokes, how tight is your budget, what sort of rim weight / width? :)
Re starting:
Put valve spokes first, leading spokes go towards rotation direction & you can see their spoke head,
Leading goes in first
3 spokes between each spoke
count the crosses in your head when spokingProbably all very well explained but those are the things I fecked up last times so maybe these help you a bit :)
JWestland-
spokes - 28/32
budget - spend what I need to on rims and spokes, got hubs here from old wheels I'll probably re-use (DA 7700) Budget is more of an issue for equipment as I don't fancy spending a lot on kit I probably won't use very often, I'm wondering what the most basic set up I can get away with is really or if cheap equipment will suck the enjoyment out of it all and end up with poor results. When I built the bmx wheels as a kid I just did it in the bike, what's the general opinion on that?
rims - Had previous good experience with CXP 23, 33, open pro, velocity a23. Haven't been very impressed by entry level factory campag (scirrocco), miche or fulcrum in the past.
light if poss, suited to climbing and general road use, I'm about 62kg (before xmas) and don't race or tend to abuse equipment.Withered preacher - Thanks, had a look at sheldon, he's quite realistic in his approach I got the sense that sticking with something fairly conventional and nothing too exotic is the general advice there.
t_w - thanks, amazon have it for around £20, pity there's no 'look inside' preview facility on amazon. I imagine there's a lot more advanced info in there than I'll need or what you reckon, suitable for beginner? I'm tempted to see how I go with Sheldon in the first instance.
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Hi, this post is too long to trawl the whole thing so can anyone direct me to any good beginners advice/instructions, either here or elsewhere on the web.
Basically, would like to build some road wheels, built some BMX wheels 30 years ago but don't have any recent experience except the odd repair. I have an idea of what I want to do but want to see if it's feasible, also have a tight budget and want to get away with as basic equipment as possible