IRD Defiant quesion \ confusion...
12-13-11, 08:05 AM
#26
Your cog is slipping.
I always followed greasing square tapers. Jobst Brandt is in favor of it and his reasons seems to make more sense than the reasons used by those in favor of dry installations.
https://sheldonbrown.com/brandt/installing-cranks.html
https://sheldonbrown.com/brandt/installing-cranks.html
For the record, I'm not very fond of Brandt's book The Bicycle Wheel either. Big deal.
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12-13-11, 10:28 AM
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Was taught dry at UBI. Know a guy who cracked Topline cranks at the crank taper hole who swore by greasing spindle.
40 Nm, or to crank mfg spec, no grease.
40 Nm, or to crank mfg spec, no grease.
12-13-11, 01:14 PM
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The basis of my bicycle knowledge comes from Sheldon Brown, Leonard Zinn, and Brandt's articles. Have I been reading the wrong people?
(Note: I am not being sarcastic. I am seriously asking if I have been studying from the wrong people)
12-13-11, 01:25 PM
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There isn't anything wrong with the book per se. It is just that there are only really like 4 pages of it that are actually useful. Does anybody really need outdated calculations of spoke strength?
It is awesome that somebody finally decided to apply some science to the problem of wheel building but it doesn't really help most people build wheels.
It is awesome that somebody finally decided to apply some science to the problem of wheel building but it doesn't really help most people build wheels.
12-13-11, 01:34 PM
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There isn't anything wrong with the book per se. It is just that there are only really like 4 pages of it that are actually useful. Does anybody really need outdated calculations of spoke strength?
It is awesome that somebody finally decided to apply some science to the problem of wheel building but it doesn't really help most people build wheels.
It is awesome that somebody finally decided to apply some science to the problem of wheel building but it doesn't really help most people build wheels.
I actually liked all the science-y stuff. Since I never built a wheel before, it was nice to see the theory behind why things were done the way they were done.
12-13-11, 01:51 PM
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Some people do better with the techy stuff; some people do better with an artsy-fartsy approach. To the latter, Brandt is anathema -- suggest Gerd Schraner's The Art of Wheelbuilding instead.
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