Sometimes it’s an accomplishment.\u00a0 Today, I laced my first bicycle wheel.\u00a0 Well, I actually re-laced a wheel that I took apart last week.\u00a0 I used the directions in a bicycle maintenance book by Leonard Zinn to lace the 32 spokes in a 3 cross pattern.\u00a0 It actually only took about a half hour to lace, and then I tightened the spokes in a couple of loops around the wheel.\u00a0 It’s not trued or tightened enough to ride, and I will take the wheel apart anyway.\u00a0 This was more of a trial run to see how the lacing process works.<\/p>\n
It actually went surprisingly well.\u00a0 I didn’t have to redo any of the spokes, and I checked them as I inserted them.\u00a0 I did the lacing in four sets of eight spokes just as the directions said and it all works.<\/p>\n
As someone that is trying to become more knowledgeable about building and maintaining bicycles, building wheels is a skill that I’ve wanted to learn for a while now.<\/p>\n
I’m going to build the wheels for the LeMond bicycle I’m restoring, and I plan to ride that bicycle in a century later this year.\u00a0 So, I’d better get it right if I expect to finish without walking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Sometimes it’s an accomplishment.\u00a0 Today, I laced my first bicycle wheel.\u00a0 Well, I actually re-laced a wheel that I took apart last week.\u00a0 I used the directions in a bicycle maintenance book by Leonard Zinn to lace the 32 spokes in a 3 cross pattern.\u00a0 It actually only took about a half hour to lace, … <\/p>\n