Old barn find I breathed new life in because gravel bikes are too expensive so fuck it I'll make my own.

Just waiting for the last parts since i lost some plastic thingamabobs I need for the STIs.

Sometimes I think I should keep my bike shop like surgically clean so I don't lose the small, crucially important plastic bits in the mess of parts and old boxes but alas, if your personal shop doesn't look like you could outfit a frame with parts you find on the ground, is it even a shop?

  • dogs_unleashed [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    i got a new back rim toward the end of the season last year, and I never brought it back to the guy to 'true it' after some riding like he said.

    went for my first ride of 2022 this past weekend and it seemed fine :shrug-outta-hecks:

    • JimBobsUncle [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      It's probably okay. Spokes settled after a couple rides and tensions may differ slightly. Good builds don't move much. True isnt so much important as balanced. Even spoke tension is a strong wheel. Pluck your spokes originating from the same side hub flange and they should have a similar tone. Like a guitar string.

        • JimBobsUncle [none/use name]
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          2 years ago

          So your spokes are connected to the rim, which connect to the hub. Every spoke on the rim goes to every other side of the hub, traditionally called drive and non-drive (the side with gears and side without gears). So the first spoke after the valve might go to the drive, the next spoke goes to the non-drive, next spoke to the drive, so on and so forth. The spokes that come out of the same side of the hub should have the same tone as one another. So all the spokes on the drive side of the hub should sound the same, and all the spokes coming out of the non-drive side should sound the same.