[YellowBike] Wheel Building lesson at Yellowbike this friday

[Aaron Wieler]

I have a question for us all: are the yellowbikes dissapearing? are some
breaking way more than others but are still in circulation?

I would be interested in hearing people's opinions on how many bikes there
are in circulation right now. Take a guess.

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yellowbike does not have a dishing tool, although the bike shop does. our
wheels had flanges spaced evenly from the outside of the cone locknuts, so
dishing was done by equalizing spoke tension.


we built 4 wheels today. 2 were single speeds with coaster brakes, 2 were
single speed BMX hubs. several of us learned how to lace and tension wheels,
and because they are so beefy wheels (and have 36 spokes, the truing process
was a breeze. 

ian hadn't meant to send that to everyone, but I responded to all because I
am so excited about making less-destructable yb wheels.

(the plan is to build up bikes like this: single speed, coaster brake, solid
rubber tires. No shifters, derraileurs, rim brakes, brake levers, tubes,
punctures....)

rubberside down, aaron


On 11/19/04 7:47 PM, "itw02 at hampshire.edu" wrote:

> does yb have a dishing tool? gl btw
> 
> 
> Quoting Aaron Wieler <afw01 at hampshire.edu>:
> 
>> Do you want to learn to lace spokes on bike wheels, tension, dish, round,
>> and true a wheel?
>> 
>> Come to yellowbike this friday.
>> we start at 1:00 in the bike shop of the RCC.
>> The wheel building will happen at 2:00 Pm.
>> 
>> There's only a few wheels to build because of spokes, but we can share.
>> It's
>> quite satisfying. What price says about the satisfaction of fixing bikes
>> applies to building wheels as well.
>> 
>> -aaron and yellowbike
>> 
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