mconlonx

Today I am building wheels for a buddy. All City New Shreriff SL hubs, 4x DT Swiss Comp spokes, brass nips, HPlusSon Archetype hard ano rims. Rear came out sweet, now back to the front.

SCK

I have yet to do it, but building a set of wheels is something I'd like to tackle one of these days.

calv

awww yeah. Is it updated on pedalroom? I forgot you had that sweet cannondale track, too!

Leukybear 

Nope, I've not used pedalroom for quite sometime. Don't blame me but I've been too busy riding them than taking pictures!

A handful of bikes have come and go since then, here's one:

calv

I can certainly agree with that.

Mumonkan

before i got into the bikepacking i hadnt been camping since the boy scouts, so i know where youre coming from

just bring real food, my "treat yoself" items are avocados, coffee, and bourbon. if youre gonna cook, look for things that are simple and require you to basically just add water. i love couscous and oatmeal, anythign with a lot of flavor and sodium after a long day of riding. the best dehydrated meals brand is backpackers pantry - i highly recommend pad thai!

and like @rex615 says tortillas & PB are essential items. dont forget hotsauce either. gas station packets of this that and the other thing are great for camping

msr pocket rocket or trangia alchohol stove, cant go wrong with either

re: sierra sleeping bag - take note of the packed size, which is almost 12L in volume, thats essentially my entire seatbag. not a big deal tho if you just bungee it to a rear rack but something to keep in mind

rex615

You should try it it can be fun and rewarding. I build my own wheels, but will pay my LBS to build them if it is nice stuff, he is much better at it than I am. For example, he built my dynamo hub, plus he ordered the spokes and the wheel.

Today i am almost finished with this one. It still has a radial bump of about 2 mm that i can't get out. Unfortunately it is at the joint, so i am probably going to have to live with it. Cheap third world wheels, YGWYPF.
The hub "slice and splice" worked well, I was worried the bearing races wouldn't be parallel (cup and cone) but the wheel spins nicely.

SCK

It's on my to do list.

50voltphantom

That's impressive, really. how did you face the insides of the hub shell?

Don't feel bad, the Archetype on my rear wheel has a small hop at the joint (imperceptible when riding), the front is perfect. They're older Archetypes before they added material at the nipple bed. If I ever ding that rear rim or something maybe I'll replace it.

Kindaslow

I saw the only other fully rigid SS MTB I have seen on the trails near me. And, it was the frame and forks I wanted to build my bike with, the Niner frame and forks. Absolutely beautiful! But, he told me that he has had to replace the frame due to a crack. And, one of my friends had to replace his full squish Niner frame recently, due to a crack. Maybe I got lucky not finding one???

rex615

Thanks, since you ask, I will bore you with the details:

I mounted the hub on a fork and used a scribe as a "pseudo lathe" to get accurate marking of the centerline and the cut lines. Then I used a hacksaw on the hub as I turnrd it to get fairly square/perpendicular cuts.
I used a piece of steel tube whose OD was very close to the ID of the hub. This basically lined it all up. This is a cast aluminium hub, so i had to clean up some flashing and mold marks on the inside using a dremel.

I used spokes thru the spoke holes to ensure the symmetry of the flanges. I put an axle with cones and bearings to help parallel the bearing races. It held everything in place while the epoxy set up.

I wanted matching wheels and I couldn't find a 75mm hub in 36 holes so I cut one. Kind off a silly project, but then a fixed gear folder is silly anyway.

You can see the insert.



The joint looks fairly tidy

Regulatori

Is the epoxy enough to keep water out?
You may want to pick up a tube of clear silicone caulk and smear it in the gap for extra weatherproofing.

I like silicone roofing (or "flashing") caulk because it's super water proof and strong...the stuff can take abuse and still keep water out.

hockeyteeth

Tight work, bruh.

TenSpeedV2

Barfed twice at work, and then rode my fixed gear home.

rex615

Thanks, that is good idea, but I don't think it will be necessary. The epoxy is impermeable and it wasn't only applied at the seam. The inside of the hub wall and the outside of the splice tube were coated in epoxy before assembly. Water would have to travel sideways, more than a centimeter in the space between the splice tube and the hub wall and that space is filled with epoxy.

Thanks!

SquidPuppet

Taped flush to stem. TIDY. High approval rating.

SquidPuppet

I love oddball projects like this. Nice job.

Now please trim that axle down to an appropriate length. It's sending my OCD into orbit.

mconlonx

Above and beyond, man, nice project.

However...

Do you mean you lined the holes up, left flange to right? Because usually, spoke holes left to right are offset by half spacing, so that if you held the hub upright, a spoke through the top flange would fall directly between two holes in the bottom one, not through one...

Kindaslow

Do you think that if you had barfed three times that maybe there would have been a little more love shown???

I would have responded earlier, but I ride SS!

Mumonkan

rode fatty to the beach, on the beach, on some singletrack, on an assload of rocks, over logs, through the mud, up hills, down hills, in the ****ing ocean.

still have not found its limits.

rex615

Thanks, and done.


Thanks!

I checked the hub before I cut it using the spokes and it seemed to be symmetric so I tried to duplicate that.

However...

it is quite possible I got it wrong. Though if it was half spacing, I would have noticed...maybe.

I'll posted a pic with the upgrades here.

Huffandstuff

Carbon bars came in the mail today, things are so damn light.

TMonk

for which bike?

Huffandstuff

The rockhopper. Got a good deal on ebay for some ritchey wcs risers so said why not.

Mumonkan

today i realized in the past 6 months or so i met a whole bunch of awesome bike people and made some solid friends

bikes are the ****.