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20 seconds ago I discovered…
Northwind
Full Member

…that when I noted down the ERD of my new rim, I transposed 2 of the numbers. Guess that’s why the spokes don’t fit eh. No of course they don’t fit for 2-cross either, that’d be crazy.

Stealth ad: For sale, 32 259mm Sapim Lasers. Highly collectable; previously owned by the famous Northwind, wheel div.

Posted 7 years ago

aracer
Free Member

What rim ERD would those work with?

Posted 7 years ago

mikewsmith
Free Member

Nearly as bad as forgetting that the hub you are rebuilding on was 36h not 32… oh how I laughed

(edit should really report the not so stealth ad in the main forum 😉 )

Posted 7 years ago

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oink1
Free Member

D’oh! Being utterly confused with the black art of wheel building I’m relatively smug in the knowledge that I’m never likely to do this! 😀

Posted 7 years ago

twisty
Full Member

Not a totally oddball size, coild fit somebodies 26″ wheel build.

Posted 7 years ago

joshvegas
Free Member

Pffft

31 spoked wheel with inaccessible valve anyone?

Posted 7 years ago

rickon
Free Member

What rim ERD would those work with?

Depends on what hubs you’re using 😉

I *believe* they’d be 1mm too long for Hope Pro2s on Stans Arch or Crest 26er. But I could be wrong. I remember being able to use 258s for them all round.

Someone will need to do the math on Spoke Calc.

Posted 7 years ago

kerley
Free Member

Pretty close to my last 26″ wheel build which was 260 spokes. A Hope Pro 2 on a 534 ERD rim, 32 3x would be around 259m

Posted 7 years ago

honourablegeorge
Full Member

Yeah, 26er Hopes on E13 or Stan’s are there or thereabouts.

Posted 7 years ago

frood
Free Member

Hub with the world’s largest flange? That’s 30ish mm too short for a wagon wheel… this your first home build NW?

Posted 7 years ago

thecaptain
Free Member

My front wheel is 258mm, I’d have had a few of those off you but I just bought some spares. And that’s a snowflake pattern.

Posted 7 years ago

joshvegas
Free Member

What length do you need?

*looks at pack of wrong length spokes*

Posted 7 years ago

tomhoward
Full Member

Let’s be honest, this isn’t the most crazy thing you could have done, is it?

[url=https://flic.kr/p/ardXir]OH GOD[/url] by Northwindlowlander, on Flickr

Posted 7 years ago

swavis
Full Member

^WTAF!^ 😯

Posted 7 years ago

Northwind
Full Member

Pics or it didn’t… oh. ****.

frood – Member

this your first home build NW?

Nah, but the first that isn’t a 26er so the sizes just felt kind of sensible. What’s really annoying is I measured the ERDs, ran it in multiple calculators, all that good stuff- I just can’t write 😆

Posted 7 years ago

joshvegas
Free Member

Keep meaning to ask… how did ^that^ handle?

Posted 7 years ago

Northwind
Full Member

BB was a bit high

Posted 7 years ago

frood
Free Member

And for some reason it would only go backwards freehub must have been backwards

Posted 7 years ago

maccruiskeen
Full Member

I transposed 2 of the numbers

Glad you don’t work in a bank

Posted 7 years ago

Northwind
Full Member

Some of you guys are a bit stalky, you know that?

(I don’t work for a bank any more! Nobody minds if you transpose 2 students)

Posted 7 years ago

joshvegas
Free Member

Stalky or do you put it all out there…

Posted 7 years ago

Northwind
Full Member

Well I do but you’re not supposed to remember!

Posted 7 years ago

stevenmenmuir
Free Member

He bought a plastic on-one, we all make mistakes. There’s no need to go on about it.

Posted 7 years ago

joshvegas
Free Member

Wait until he realises all the water has fallen out his watering can.

The other one should still have some in it.

Looks like the stereo might be out of action though.

Posted 7 years ago

nedrapier
Full Member

Ho ho.

This was my last maths//measuring/reading a ruler mishap.

http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/crest-erd-my-measurements-are-way-out-confused-please-help

Awful truth is halfway down, with the pictures.

Posted 7 years ago

nedrapier
Full Member

oik1: it’s not a black art, it’s very a straightforward set of steps. If you read a good guide and follow the steps, you’ll be successful.

Trouble is, we’re all pretty good/bad at “getting the gist” from a quick skim and wading in. That approach doesn’t really work with wheelbuilding, and there are probably a good 50-odd ways to get it wrong if you’re not concentrating.

Posted 7 years ago

Northwind
Full Member

nedrapier – Member

Ho ho.

This was my last maths//measuring/reading a ruler mishap.

It’s the two of us against the tyranny of arithmetic

Posted 7 years ago

tomhoward
Full Member

Well I do but you’re not supposed to remember!

Once that on one fork mishap has been seen, it can never be unseen!

Posted 7 years ago

Northwind
Full Member

Take 2 went swimmingly btw.

Posted 7 years ago

Dickyboy
Full Member

Anyone else forgotten to shake the loose nipples out of a rim before taping & fitting tubeless 🙁

Posted 7 years ago

Kahurangi
Full Member

Well I do but you’re not supposed to remember!

I got a lot less posty on STW when I realised that fold do remember everything – some fully, some not-so-funny, and some downright stalkerish*

Take 2 went swimmingly btw.

If this is the only time you’ve failed to measure twice, cut once then it’s been cheap lesson. Mine involved a steerer tube.

*an episode a looong while back involving an ex….

Posted 7 years ago

Northwind
Full Member

Jon Taylor – Member

If this is the only time you’ve failed to measure twice, cut once then it’s been cheap lesson

No, no it is not. But I did measure twice!

Posted 7 years ago

ChrisL
Full Member

And yet Northwind is still my first stop when something bike related goes beyond my own limited mechanical skills.

Who’s the more foolish, the fool or the fool that follows him?

Posted 7 years ago

thestabiliser
Free Member

Well, at lest your kid’s not a racist

Posted 7 years ago

gofasterstripes
Free Member

…how to write clickbait?

Posted 7 years ago

Northwind
Full Member

…You Won’t Believe What Happened Next!
I Bought Some More Spokes!
You Do Believe It? Oh. Never mind.

Posted 7 years ago