And i spent my evening...lacing up a rear wheel

[urbanfireblade]

Oh the fun, a bargain ebay purchase of a pair of mavic rims/stout hub wheels turned out not to be a bargain when they 'forgot' to mention in the advert they were 2 front wheels :roll:
So i thought, 'hay do's' i'll but this 24 seven singlespeed rear hub on the for sale thread on retrobike and lace it up to the mavic x223 rim one of the wheels had and run my explosif singlespeed(sliding rear dropouts '07).
Quick calc to figure out what length spokes i need and a trip to the LBS. shock horror :shock: and £32 later!! i walked away with 32 single butted spokes. Somehow when i bought some plain spokes from another bike shop for 30p each i kinda figured butted ones would be a tad more... lol not 3x more per spoke!
Anyway, so Sheldonbrown.com and alot of headscratching later i got my wheel built up. Trued up in all directions, and about the right tension, all i need to do now is fit the discs, tyres and remove all the gear stuff. Back to basics, so to speak.

Does anyone else seem to do stuff like this in their spare time? I seem to have an awful lot of 'stuff' that sucks up most of my time, sometimes i yearn for the day when i just have one bike and i'm happy with it, instead of...cough...10 bikes i'm forever chopping, changing, replacing, adjusting, servicing etc till the cows come home. :roll:

 

[kaytronika]

You loved it really, didn't you? You relished the challenge!

 

[urbanfireblade]

Hahaha yeah i knew someone would come back with something like that
I guess i do, my time is split 95/5 with 95% spent working on them, the 5% is how little i actually use them! I gotta call it stop tho, 10 is an awful lot when i ran out of space to keep them at 8! I just can't part with them tho, especially the retro ones like my Konas and Klein, i could perhaps put most up in the loft, but the times i've done that then got a hankering to get one down again i've lost count. Need to put them up there and 'forget' and concentrate on the rest.
I'm not too sure if my girlfriend has realised i've +2 bikes recently or whether she's 'tolerating' it by not talking about the subject. Tho, having 5 bikes in one room in the house doesn't do me any favours.