By Mike Tierney Why should we even bother with wheel tinkering at all? Why not just take them to the local shop for a fix when needed? And with so many factory pre-built wheelsets on the market, why would we go to the trouble of building wheels ourselves? After all, isn’t wheel building the most…
One of the most enjoyable aspects of running RBR is the chance to shoot the breeze via email about all things cycling with fellow roadies – to swap knowledge and opinions, to share stories and learn new things. To help them, and for them to help me, learn more about our shared passion. That’s really…
The Wheel Builder Columnist My lifetime of cycling started at the age of 14, back in the early ’60s, in my native northern UK. I lived on the lower slopes of the Pennine hills and spent most of my youth riding up into the hillier parts of Lancashire, Yorkshire and Derbyshire with the local cycling…
Technical Editor & Tech Talk Columnist Probably like most of you, I fell for cycling as a kid. But unlike most of you, when it came time to get a real job, I stuck with what I had done in college — and with what I loved — and kept working as a bicycle mechanic….
In Part 2 of this “basics” series, I touched on the topics of spoke twist and stress relief. Today, I’ll talk about the need for equalized spoke tensions and which way to turn nipples – with a big tip that you won’t forget! Equal spoke tension When we tension all the spokes of a wheel,…
