Thread: Paramount build
View Single Post
Old 05-20-21 | 08:44 AM
  #31  
Mad Honk
Senior Member
Titanium Club Membership
5 Anniversary
Community Builder
 
Joined: May 2019
Posts: 3,960
Likes: 3,185
From: Bloomington, IN

Bikes: Paramount, Faggin, Ochsner, Rossin, Ciocc

It is now the next morning and the build continues.
I have finished the drive side spoke lacing and require only to lace in the other nine spokes on the non-drive side. These spokes do not do any pulling of the rim from the hub but are there to stabilize the pulling spokes that were the initial two sets of spokes I installed. I will start by putting the spokes though the wheel from the drive side and the spokes then come out on the outside of the wheel. This allows for free movement of the spokes when lacing and doesn't risk scuffing up the rim by trying to lace from the inside of the spoke pattern. Here are today's pictures:

The non-drive side of the rim and the current installed spokes.

The last nine spokes being added from the drive side of the wheel.

By placing the spokes through the star pattern closest to the hub flange they will drop through a bit easier.

The non-drive side spokes installed. Note that the star patterns for both sides are identical.

Finished lacing and the wheel is ready to go to the truing stand. Total build time this morning with pictures was fifteen minutes.

This little feller stopped in to observe/supervise my work. He is one of the early hatchlings of Brood X cicadas. Soon he will be joined by a few billion of his siblings and the noise will be incessant from early morning to night fall. They have been in larvae state for the past 17 years and they are like every other teenager, all they want to do is have sex!

Last edited by Mad Honk; 05-20-21 at 12:09 PM.
Mad Honk is offline  
Reply