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basketcase:
Hi all, I bought my rims from David Silvers and a local guy (local to Staffordshire) laced them using stainless spokes all in for

z1100r:

 I forgot I was a member here....!!!
 
Literally 1 hour ago I rang Central wheel for a quote on rebuilding both my wheels. I wanted Stainless rims and stainless spokes on my brand new hubs.
 

SteveD CB500K0:
Don't bin them.

One of the guys on here had my old Rickman rack for a rechrome and those old black Rickman boxes must be collectors items!

totty:
I've decided to just replace the tyres for now, the rims don't look good but they are solid and straight - pretty much like the rest of the bike.

kaceyk2:
Having read loads on lacing, especially articles entitled "you CAN do this"  I invested in a dial gauge. I then bought both rims from D.silver and also new stock spokes for my cb750 K2.  I read the articles carefully and kept them to hand for the building event...my first on lacing wheels.  At the very last moment I caught a television program where a chopper wheel was being laced and I am glad I did... what they did was to place ALL the spokes in the hub first, and then to gently spiral them out so as the hub and all the spokes could be just dropped inside the rim first. Then its just a matter of moving them back one at a time untill they are in the right place and you have all the nipples fitted... none of my articles had mentioned this method, but I can totally recomend it, it does seem to have the advantage of a "no struggle " approach to the last few spokes should you have fitted them one at a time into hub and rim...
D.silvers rims and spokes in  my k2 hubs fitted like a dream and soon I got something that was coming together really well. After tightening each spoke a quarter turn at a time, I got the wheels down to .5mm run out and true, which I was very proud of for my first attempt.... BUT, ( oh no, fear and paranoia crept in especially when thinking of 100mph!) I was very aware , (maybe too much) of not "overtightening" so much so. that I am not certain of just how much to tighten, and none of the articles said exactly how tight, tight should be... so allthough my wheels look good and are true....can I trust them? well I would like an expert to look at them first!!! (before I ride!) This is probably more of a self confidence issue, as I firmly believed the job would be harder than it was...but wheels are pretty damn important! I had an old f1 wheel and I have "dinged" my new spokes with a plastic handle of a screwdriver and "dinged" the f1 spokes and they sound the same pitch... But the f1 wheel is old...so if anyone has a trustworthy wheel they have rebuilt and they could record the sound of "dinging" I could compare it to mine. I am a musician and have near perfect pitch, this is the only way I can think of to compare correct tightness, unless I am missing something. ( which I believe I am or I would trust me wheels!) Thanks...

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