I've built a half dozen or so wheels just using Sheldon Brown's wheelbuilding page. As long as you're working with a fairly traditional wheel (no oddball spoke styles or lacing patterns), the main thing is to get the pattern right and to approach the final stage gradually and evenly. I find wheelbuilding to be a relaxing way to spend an evening, and it generally makes me wish i had the excuse to do it more often.
-- Bill Connell St. Paul, MN On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 3:06 PM, nathan spindel <nath...@gmail.com> wrote: > Is Jobst's book still the de facto resource for learning the craft of > wheelbuilding? Any other suggested resources? > > I think I'll make building a lighter set of wheels for my RB-1 as a summer > project. :) > > -nathan > > On May 3, 2010, at 11:36 AM, Me <clotht...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Good on ya. Building a wheel/wheels/wheelset is one of those things >> where you -really- connect with 'History' I think. Once I learned >> how, there is/was no going back. It's fun. >> >> Congrats on your Phil too! >> >> -Scott >> >> On May 3, 3:30 am, EricP <ericpl...@aol.com> wrote: >>> Finally got around to doing a couple of things - getting a Phil Wood >>> hub and building my own wheel. Jim Thill at Hiawatha spent a good >>> chunk of an evening trying to drill into my thick skull how to >>> properly build a wheel. Might have been slightly less dim than most >>> days, as the instruction took, and now have a Phil freewheel hub laced >>> to a Salsa Delgado rim. Even more amazingly the wheel has stayed good >>> for about 60 miles of riding over the weekend. Including a curb bash >>> taken at a lot higher speed than planned. >>> >>> About a week earlier, swapped the crankset out for a Sugino XD found >>> secondhand. More than a bit scuffed up, but that crank just looks so >>> "right" on this bike. >>> >>> One last observation - the Silver shifters do seem to work alot better >>> with a seven speed rear than an eight. Was pretty sure that would be >>> the case, but was nice to have it confirmed. >>> >>> A couple of photos here -http://tinyurl.com/23f4do3 >>> >>> Eric Platt >>> St. Paul, MN >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "RBW Owners Bunch" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bu...@googlegroups.com. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> For more options, visit this group >>> athttp://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "RBW Owners Bunch" group. >> To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bu...@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bu...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bu...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
