Hi all.
As title.....
Anyone else building their own wheels at home during Lockdown?
Having finished my builds and no projects waiting on the shelf, it's fair to say that although I've been taking the opportunity to ride more when I can, I'm getting a bit 'Twitchy' about having nothing in the pipeline.
I've built wheel sets before for the Kili flyer and Cannondale, but have started to look at some of my wheels with a view to taking them apart!
It started with a perfectly decent Shimano M732XT on NOS Campagnolo Atek (the old wheels from my Elite) - this now has been rebuilt onto a Bullseye hub.
.....then there's the matching rear wheel for this. Waiting for a wheelset to arrive for this, which I'm planning to take apart and rebuild those rims onto some other period correct hubs to complete another set for a build I don't even have yet!
..... Then there's the blue Hope Ti on Silver Atek.
I recently sorted a Kona out for a friend. This happened to be my old Muni Mula..... which was handed to me as a frame/fork/box of parts and 5 wheels! - one of these happened to be this hope wheel purchased from Merlin Cycles in 1994! I took this as payment for doing the build.
So, needing my 'wheel building fix' - Regan_ev kindly sold me the matching front. After sourcing a rim too and buying 'Halo' spokes from eBay .... So after 26yrs, this wheel finally has its partner.
Probably going to take apart a perfectly decent Shimano LX hub on an MA40 next, just so the Ridgeback has the correct hub!
Any one else doing their own? - or taking things apart that don't really need taking apart? :facepalm:
Cheers all.
boy"O"boy
As title.....
Anyone else building their own wheels at home during Lockdown?
Having finished my builds and no projects waiting on the shelf, it's fair to say that although I've been taking the opportunity to ride more when I can, I'm getting a bit 'Twitchy' about having nothing in the pipeline.
I've built wheel sets before for the Kili flyer and Cannondale, but have started to look at some of my wheels with a view to taking them apart!
It started with a perfectly decent Shimano M732XT on NOS Campagnolo Atek (the old wheels from my Elite) - this now has been rebuilt onto a Bullseye hub.
.....then there's the matching rear wheel for this. Waiting for a wheelset to arrive for this, which I'm planning to take apart and rebuild those rims onto some other period correct hubs to complete another set for a build I don't even have yet!
..... Then there's the blue Hope Ti on Silver Atek.
I recently sorted a Kona out for a friend. This happened to be my old Muni Mula..... which was handed to me as a frame/fork/box of parts and 5 wheels! - one of these happened to be this hope wheel purchased from Merlin Cycles in 1994! I took this as payment for doing the build.
So, needing my 'wheel building fix' - Regan_ev kindly sold me the matching front. After sourcing a rim too and buying 'Halo' spokes from eBay .... So after 26yrs, this wheel finally has its partner.
Probably going to take apart a perfectly decent Shimano LX hub on an MA40 next, just so the Ridgeback has the correct hub!
Any one else doing their own? - or taking things apart that don't really need taking apart? :facepalm:
Cheers all.
boy"O"boy