sorry, can't make it!Joined: 26 Jan 2006Posts: 2315Location: Fremont Troll
Due to popular demand and the gracious offer of wheel truing stands, I am proud to announce that I am having a wheel building party on Wednesday, September 19th at 6:00 PM!
Bring your wheels in need of truing!
Bring your rim, spokes, nipples, and hubs for building!
Bring some beer so we can drink it!
And bring something for your allergies if you are allergic to cats (one cat) or dogs (two dogs).
I have work space, knowledge, and a desire to help you learn how to build wheels! Come one! Come all! We're building wheels!
I'm at 35th and Troll. The address is:
924 North 35th Street, Seattle, WA, 98103 (do your own Internet map search)
It's a buttercream colored house at the top of the hill on 35th. You'll climb some stairs and get up on to a wood deck. I'll have my sliding glass door open to hear you say the password "Ridebikes" to get in. Seriously, I don't have a doorbell and you'll have to speak up in a loud voice, or call me.
Bike parking out back and in front. I can take a few bikes inside, but space is limited, so bring a lock.
It may be possible to convinced me that making daiquiris is a great idea. Sadly, I'm the only one here who can speak to my daiquiri making ability, but I have to tell you, they are great. They make Cheesecake Factory daiquiris look like Slurpees.
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zuvembi
Posted: Wed Sep 12, 2007 11:58 am
Joined: 24 Jul 2005Posts: 942Location: Little Addis Ababa
I really do need to finish the wheels for my mothers bike. If I don't have them done by then, expect me to show up on your doorstep with parts in hand.
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the dreaded ben
Posted: Wed Sep 12, 2007 12:06 pm
Grumpy GreebJoined: 20 Aug 2005Posts: 5329Location: flavor country
i've got a truing stand that can be borrowed if need be.
of course it's covered in hepatitis, though.
Rogelio
Posted: Wed Sep 12, 2007 12:06 pm
Joined: 31 Jul 2007Posts: 3092Location: Pos, aya, por la Corona-Alta-Madera y que no.
Well I'm definitely coming, seeing that my back wheel is all slightly-askew.
zuvembi
Posted: Wed Sep 12, 2007 12:34 pm
Joined: 24 Jul 2005Posts: 942Location: Little Addis Ababa
the dreaded ben wrote:
i've got a truing stand that can be borrowed if need be.
of course it's covered in hepatitis, though.
Would I have to step through a puddle of herpes to get it?
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the dreaded ben
Posted: Wed Sep 12, 2007 1:05 pm
Grumpy GreebJoined: 20 Aug 2005Posts: 5329Location: flavor country
zuvembi wrote:
Would I have to step through a puddle of herpes to get it?
i guess that depends on the moisture content of the carpet in my office.
Alex
Posted: Wed Sep 12, 2007 1:50 pm
Joined: 18 May 2006Posts: 3128Location: Roosevelt
Woo, wheel building is fun. I'll also bring a tensionometer.
Where do I need to go?
19th is perfect timing.
n_claw
Posted: Sat Sep 15, 2007 11:05 pm
Joined: 02 Jul 2007Posts: 517Location: the only hill: Beacon
awesome, i'm totally in! man i've missed people who actually know a thing or two about bikes...but we'll get to the inadequacies of Bostonian bikers later.
<3, N*
ps. let Jen know that i'm still totally on for teacher her to knit if she's interested, just have her ring me after her exams.
SeditiousCanary
Posted: Sun Sep 16, 2007 9:25 am
sorry, can't make it!Joined: 26 Jan 2006Posts: 2315Location: Fremont Troll
Alex wrote:
I'll also bring a tensionometer.
I have a Wheelsmith tension meter, and I doubt we'll need more than one at a time, but you're welcome to bring it. I wish I had a dishing tool, but I'll talk about how to get around using one.
martin
Posted: Sun Sep 16, 2007 9:31 am
Joined: 30 Jan 2006Posts: 712
SeditiousCanary wrote:
Alex wrote:
I'll also bring a tensionometer.
I have a Wheelsmith tension meter, and I doubt we'll need more than one at a time, but you're welcome to bring it. I wish I had a dishing tool, but I'll talk about how to get around using one.
My hubs are not in yet (dammit!) so hopefully QBP gets its shit together and gets it to the shop ASAP.
Of course I've got spokes, nipples, and rims ready to roll.
SeditiousCanary
Posted: Sun Sep 16, 2007 9:43 am
sorry, can't make it!Joined: 26 Jan 2006Posts: 2315Location: Fremont Troll
martin wrote:
Of course I've got spokes, nipples, and rims ready to roll.
I should also mention that I have hubs laying about. If you want wheels, I can cut you a great deal on some hubs. Then all you'd need is spokes, nipples and rims.
All the hubs I have are cassette hubsets. Not to say I only have rear hubs, but nothing freewheel or fixed. PM me if you're interested.
zuvembi
Posted: Mon Sep 17, 2007 10:39 am
Joined: 24 Jul 2005Posts: 942Location: Little Addis Ababa
I won't be showing. Apparently the wife bought tickets to TMBG, so I shall be skipping handling Ben's hepatitis vector of a truing stand with you gents.
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SeditiousCanary
Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2007 6:28 am
sorry, can't make it!Joined: 26 Jan 2006Posts: 2315Location: Fremont Troll
zuvembi wrote:
I won't be showing.
Then you shall only hear tale of the best daiquiris ever made.
Rue the day!
MikeOD
Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2007 8:41 am
Joined: 04 Feb 2006Posts: 545
I'll be there - I've been wanting to learn how to use a tensiometer. The fact that I don't have one yet has made this difficult. I just found that the last wheel that I redished had some spokes that became seriously loose after riding it a few hundred miles.
koos42
Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2007 9:42 am
Joined: 10 Jul 2007Posts: 367Location: ON YOUR LEFT! your other left.
I'll be there. I need to learn how to true my own damn wheels. I don't have wheels to build up yet, but I'll try that whole watch and learn thing. Plus, I already paid $50 for the Wright Bros. class.
SeditiousCanary
Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2007 9:51 am
sorry, can't make it!Joined: 26 Jan 2006Posts: 2315Location: Fremont Troll
koos42 wrote:
I don't have wheels to build up yet, but I'll try that whole watch and learn thing.
I'll just make you build one since I fucked up both my hands last night when two guys staggered out of Blue C sushi causing me to wreck. This took 20 minutes to type...
langston
Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2007 9:56 am
Joined: 25 Jul 2005Posts: 5547Location: Columbia City
SeditiousCanary wrote:
koos42 wrote:
I don't have wheels to build up yet, but I'll try that whole watch and learn thing.
I'll just make you build one since I fucked up both my hands last night when two guys staggered out of Blue C sushi causing me to wreck. This took 20 minutes to type...
I hope they took the worst of it!
SeditiousCanary
Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2007 10:03 am
sorry, can't make it!Joined: 26 Jan 2006Posts: 2315Location: Fremont Troll
langston wrote:
I hope they took the worst of it!
They took none of it, except the guilt, which only seems to affect catholics, Irish, and jews.
henry
Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2007 10:41 am
somewhat piggishJoined: 05 Aug 2005Posts: 5415Location: on porch with shotgun
SeditiousCanary wrote:
Irish
Just reading that word makes me fiend for corned beef and whiskey.
Joined: 25 Jul 2005Posts: 5547Location: Columbia City
SeditiousCanary wrote:
langston wrote:
I hope they took the worst of it!
They took none of it, except the guilt, which only seems to affect catholics, Irish, and jews.
then you hands hurt with no redemming reasoning. Aim for the neck when crashing into drunks
martin
Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2007 10:08 pm
Joined: 30 Jan 2006Posts: 712
martin wrote:
My hubs are not in yet (dammit!) so hopefully QBP gets its shit together and gets it to the shop ASAP.
Fuckers didn't get me the hubs in time. I'll drop by with 2 truing stands.
SeditiousCanary
Posted: Wed Sep 19, 2007 8:54 am
sorry, can't make it!Joined: 26 Jan 2006Posts: 2315Location: Fremont Troll
martin wrote:
Fuckers didn't get me the hubs in time.
I hope they get in today in time for you to grab them. But thanks tons for the use of the stands!
n_claw
Posted: Wed Sep 19, 2007 2:01 pm
Joined: 02 Jul 2007Posts: 517Location: the only hill: Beacon
yess. i'm bringing my friend Morgan--i've been trying to help him fix up a frame that got left in my basement a while back, and i want to re-build the wheels as he says they're 'loose' (i haven't seen it in a few months, so i'm hoping he's talking spokes, not hubs). i'll bring spokes, nipples, beer, hands. i'm leaving the rim i want to build on home so i can work on his wheelset, kid needs a bike like WHOA.
-N*
MikeOD
Posted: Wed Sep 19, 2007 10:59 pm
Joined: 04 Feb 2006Posts: 545
Thanks Chris for hosting the wheel building party, which was actually more of a wheel maintenance party, but still lots of fun. Alex showed me how to use his tensiometer, which I used to "correct" the uneven spoke tension problems of my rear wheel. Though at one point I had the wheel looking a bit like a Pringle.
n_claw
Posted: Wed Sep 19, 2007 11:09 pm
Joined: 02 Jul 2007Posts: 517Location: the only hill: Beacon
Indeed, much thanks to Chris for sharing his expertise and home and pets.
And thanks to Jen for also allowing us in the home!
Mango daiquiris with chili are the bestest!
<3, N*
koos42
Posted: Thu Sep 20, 2007 9:20 am
Joined: 10 Jul 2007Posts: 367Location: ON YOUR LEFT! your other left.
Yeah, that was a great time. Thanks for hosting. The daiquiris were awesome. The movies were fun. I learned a ton, and pedaled away with true wheels. Too bad this morning I got my wheel caught in the gaping gap on that road that connects 45th and 46th near Aurora. I managed not to bail, but there was a humorous time when my bike was bucking like a horse, one of my feet was off the pedals, my back tire was in the air, and I landed into the fixed-gear-human-piston routine.
Alex
Posted: Thu Sep 20, 2007 10:02 am
Joined: 18 May 2006Posts: 3128Location: Roosevelt
If people end up with more wheels to build then we can host a followup at my place. I might have a replacement 32 hole rim fairly soon and always have other wheels ready to build.
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