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So I won this wheel at an alley cat last month. It's a reflective velocity deep V laced to a no-name Chinese front wheel hub (seriously, that's what comes up when I google the logo) with I don't know kinds of spokes. Sweet! Except that the rim is non-machined and it's a front wheel, which is not a configuration that I actually want to ride.
I know that some people have issues with reusing a rim, but this one has never been ridden. What's the consensus on unlacing the wheel, getting new spokes and a rear track hub, and rebuilding as a rear wheel?
the dreaded ben
Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2012 11:41 am
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i can't image the second build of a velocity rim being that much shittier than the first.
have you considered selling it to someone you don't like?
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Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2012 12:38 pm
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Rob, that's totally legit. Go for it.
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whoreratiocane
Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2012 1:41 pm
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You need to de-tensions the spokes in a slow uniform manner, otherwise you can warp the rim. Set it up on the truing stand and work around like building a wheel but in reverse. Once the tension is relieved, the order of spokes doesn't matter.
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jimmythefly
Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2012 1:56 pm
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What you propose will work just fine.
Would it be cheaper/faster to order/build an entirely new wheel? You won't have to spend the time unlacing the old wheel, and you can perhaps sell the complete front wheel for more $ than the front hub and a pile of spokes alone.
Or, would you ride that front wheel if it was machined? It's pretty easy to walk the spokes over from the built wheel directly onto another matching rim that's taped alongside.
Andrew_Squirrel
Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2012 2:19 pm
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This sounds exactly one of those projects that will sit in your closet, waiting to be performed "when you have enough time", for at least 4 years until you give up and sell it.
As your voice of reason, just sell it now.
tehschkott
Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2012 2:45 pm
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whoreratiocane wrote:
You need to de-tensions the spokes in a slow uniform manner, otherwise you can warp the rim. Set it up on the truing stand and work around like building a wheel but in reverse. Once the tension is relieved, the order of spokes doesn't matter.
Nah. You can take bolt cutters to the spokes if you want - which is actually my favorite way of unlacing a wheel. It's fine.
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Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2012 5:39 pm
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Andrew_Squirrel wrote:
This sounds exactly one of those projects that will sit in your closet, waiting to be performed "when you have enough time", for at least 4 years
get out of my brain!
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blasdelf
Posted: Fri Aug 17, 2012 12:00 pm
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don't listen to scott, but you knew that already
those rims are terrible, 200g overweight and still weak while not actually being aerodynamic, their only purpose is to have a lot of surface area for hipster applique
just sell the whole thing complete to some fixie bro
the thing probably got donated to the prize pile by some unfortunate that replaced it with a 6 pound errorspoke and kept the rear, it is its destiny for the cycle to be repeated
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All this happened before, and it will happen again.
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tehschkott
Posted: Fri Aug 17, 2012 1:28 pm
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Freds a prissy little baby about bikes, but you knew that already too. They're fine to cut out. I've done it a hundred times.
But what other bros have put out is better advice. Ditch it as-is and get something else cause it's a project that isn't going anywhere.
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the dreaded ben
Posted: Fri Aug 17, 2012 4:38 pm
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blasdelf wrote:
don't listen to scott, but you knew that already
those rims are terrible, 200g overweight and still weak while not actually being aerodynamic, their only purpose is to have a lot of surface area for hipster applique
just sell the whole thing complete to some fixie bro
the thing probably got donated to the prize pile by some unfortunate that replaced it with a 6 pound errorspoke and kept the rear, it is its destiny for the cycle to be repeated
that there is some grade "A" choice cut snark.
and i dearly love it.
tehschkott
Posted: Fri Aug 17, 2012 5:08 pm
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Posted: Sat Aug 18, 2012 2:13 pm
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fuck it, ride it. Retarded wheels can be fun, especially when you DGAF what happens to 'em. Bar bike? YES! overnight lockup? HELL YES! Figure out pattern which changes dependent on speed, and then apply it to the rim in reflective tape because you are both a hilpster and a nerd? O HELL YES!
Barring that, flip it to some sucker and get a nice wheel that does not weigh 2kilos.
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