Wednesday, September 7, 2011

Bmx wheels, how to lace, tighten, and true

 -turkey threw me some pics from a tutorial he made on facebook im gona get around to stashin em here soon enough


i will edit this post later to contain pictures and a full tutorial of how to lace bmx wheels, 36h hubs to 36h rims, how to lace a 48h hub to a 36h rim, and how to lace a 48h rim to a 36h hub, i will also have tut, orial how to "break in" wheels, truing, and general tightening spokes,

i want to get these reference sites up first because if someone is looking into lacing their own wheels there sites may teach them instead of me but alot of sites have dificult to folow pictures and walls of text so i will try and aviod that,

-Rim materials-
-Lits of some common rim materials and their yeild tensile strength, along with alot of other information about bikes, i highly recomend reading most if not all of this blogs posts
[ http://bmxtech.blogspot.com/2010/01/rim-materials.html ]
-The source for that post is an amazing reference website get to know what your bike can take and what parts to get next
[ http://www.matweb.com/search/DataSheet.aspx?MatGUID=1b8c06d0ca7c456694c7777d9e10be5b ]

-Spoke length-
-If you use spokes that are too long they will puncture the tube, with double wall rims sometimes you can get away with using spokes that come out of the top of the nipple but do not pass the second wall.
-This site may have your hub rim combo [ http://www.pijin.co.uk/spokecalc.html ]
-Calculator [ http://www.bikeschool.com/tools/spoke-length-calculator ]
-The formula [ http://spokeanwheel.110mb.com/ ]

-Resource-
-Alot of great information about wheel building, metals, tools, and terms i will not define here
[ http://sheldonbrown.com/wheelbuild.html#improvised ]
-Those numbers about rims are explained here and if you ride or have ever bought a bmx part you shuld read these two sites great information here
[ http://www.tppinfo.com/defect_analysis/yield_strength.html ]
-Mathematical Formulas [ http://www.engineersedge.com/strength_of_materials.htm ]

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