By my observation the dish is the same on most 6 speed free wheels as 8,9,10 speed cassettes (out of time line). I agree with the high tension wheels but that seems more to do with number of spokes not dish. Steven
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-----Original Message----- From: classicrendezvous-bounces@bikelist.org [mailto:classicrendezvous-bounces@bikelist.org] On Behalf Of hersefan@comcast.net Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2005 5:21 PM To: Classicrendezvous@bikelist.org Subject: [CR]Re: Wheel Building observations
A few wheelbuilding thoughts
Modern high dish wheels are much harder to build than older 5 and 6sp wheels. In the old days, many sins wouldn't be a problem.
In the modern world of high dish rears (without asymetric rims) spoke prep and the use of tricks such as lighter guage on non-drive rears or radial lace patterns on the non-drive are extremely beneficial.
In the old days, less than perfectly uniform spoke tension might be OK. On modern high dish rears, if spoke tension is uneven, the non-drive side can have spokes with barely any tension at all. Use of a tensionometer becomes very useful. Now a good pluck of the spokes will indeed find a loose culprit, but it is really nice looking at the numbers. Besides, its also key to find the overly tight ones too when balancing tension.
Mike Kone in Boulder CO
> i.m.o. its all about workmanship, a bit more ethereal than "hard
science" ...
> and a LOT more accepting of uncontrolables like "experience" and
"having the
> touch" ... that said I have a lot of respect for the process
control-focus of
> mass producing wheels, I just think of my own wheels now-a-days as
something
> other than mere consumables.
>
> Dale Phelps, Longmont CO
>
> Kurt Sperry wrote:
> wrote:
> >
> >
> > I think the bottom line is that there is more than one way of
building a
> > perfectly good bicycle wheel.
>
>
> Whilst this is obviously true, I wonder if Brandt and Lickton et al
would
>
> be too ideologically entrenched to admit the obvious. Wheelbuilding as
it's
>
> frequently espoused seems like one part science and about four or five
part
> s
> dogma.
> Kurt Sperry
> Bellingham WA
>
>
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