Bicycle Wheel Rebuild

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It started as an assortment of parts

wheel parts for rebuild

wheel parts for rebuild

  • old Wienmann A129 rim (great touring rim)
  • new DT 14 gauge stainless spokes in two lengths
  • new DT spoke nipples
  • old greythumb nipple lube
  • new old stock malliard heliomatic hub
  • rim tape
  • old skewer
  • park nipple wrench
  • Jobst Bradt’s book: “The Bicycle Wheel”

    • and a few hours later I have a new wheel…

    wheel together and mounted onbike

    wheel together and mounted onbike

    One thing about truing your own wheels, they are going to be as true as the rim allows, if you have the patience to really fine tune them. I don’t have a runout gauge, but I wouldn’t be surprised if the runout measured 1/100″ or so on this newly built wheel.

    Total cost was about $100, but I ended up with a spare used hub in addition to the new old stock hub when I pulled the trigger on an ebay auction a couple of days before the NOS hub came up.

    Now to find a NOS hub for the front of my lightweight training wheel set – the bearings bind on that one unless the hub is put in the fork in a certain orientation.