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Spoke Wheel Rebuild - By Stephen Latchford

a dirty and rusty old wheel with broken spkes
The original wheel, in all it's crusty glory.

the clean hub with alternate spokes in the lace holes
Lace up the inside spokes from OUTSIDE in every other hole, next to the holes that have previously been marked by the old spokes, do this on both sides of hub.

the spokes and the holes to line up against
You can see which holes in the rim accept the correct spoke, they protrude out towards the spoke, these are every fourth hole

using a screwdriver to start tightening the spokes
Use a screwdriver to speed up tightening, but leave 6mm of thread exposed

the pattern emerges as the spokes are laced
Do the same for the remaining spokes, again look for the holes that point towards the spokes

lacing the reminaing spokes from the inside out
Thread all the outside spokes from the INSIDE of the hub

the outside spokes running across the inside ones
These spokes point the other way, about 90 degrees to the inside spoke that it crosses, and fits into the hole pointing towards them

fitting the final spokes after flipping the wheel over
Turn wheel over, there is only one hole for each spoke now so the wheel is all laced up after fitting these last nipples, so they are all tightened up one by one until there is only about 3mm of thread showing

the completed wheel
The last thing to do is true the wheel up!

Ren - The Ed's Note...Latchy promises to send my something about tightening and trueing the wheel soon...

 

Reader's Comments

Ren - The Ed said :-
I think...possibly...now I've seen Latchy do this that I could manage to lace a wheel. I'm not at ALL sure about actually trueing it up properly though. I hope the next installment is as useful...
01/01/2000 00:00:00 UTC

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