New Wire Wheel Rims on ebay

[MikeP]

Any of you lot interested in this:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/BMW-R-Wheel-Rims-x-10-/220768304570?pt=UK_Motorcycle_Parts&hash=item3366d0fdba

Might be worth pooling your resources.

 

[Richard A]

Hmmm... interesting... and I've just bought a book about building bicycle wheels (I'm assuming similar principles apply).

 

[Rob Farmer]

I've put a bid in on these but only need a couple. If I win the auction and anybody wants a rim I'll divide the total cost by 10 and sell the individual rims at that price

 

[(RIP) Proff]

I won't bid now Rob.... was just about to set up a snipe attack

 

[Colt]

ah i put an early bid.will stop now.whoever gets em
can i have pair of rims or two pr pm me.jason

 

[panterg]

Rims

Was watchin' and about to bid (up in 2 hours) would'nt mind rims for /5 if not to expensive .

 

[Rob Farmer]

K'in he'll they went for more than I was expecting.

Looks like I'll have to rough it with a pair of deep flange ally rims.

 

[(RIP) Proff]

Rob

 

[Colt]

what a bargain.

 

[MikeP]

My thoughts exactly.

 

[Richard A]

Yes, that was a tad dearer than expected (esp when considering the cost of wheel building, or time, assuming that I master bicycle wheels first, then move on to bigger stuff).

 

[bumpmuncher]

Yes, that was a tad dearer than expected (esp when considering the cost of wheel building, or time, assuming that I master bicycle wheels first, then move on to bigger stuff).

You got them ????

 

[Richard A]

You got them ????

Sorry, I see how my post could have read like that... no, I was thinking about it because I'm teaching myself how to build bicycle wheels (with a view to progressing to m/c wheels if I can master the art) but I wouldn't have gone above around £80 or so.

 

[VAL. H.]

Sorry, I see how my post could have read like that... no, I was thinking about it because I'm teaching myself how to build bicycle wheels (with a view to progressing to m/c wheels if I can master the art) but I wouldn't have gone above around £80 or so.

Richard, Motorcycle wheels are much easier to build propperly than cycle wheels.
The motorcycle wheel is much stiffer, so as long as you get the spoke tensions even you shouldn't have too much trouble getting the thing straight.
However if you over tighten one or two spokes and cause the wheel to 'dish' or go 'egg shaped', you'll have a devils own job of getting the distorsion out of the rim. So be careful.

With cycle rims you can correct most mistakes, but over all it's much more of an art to get the thing correctly tensioned straight 'dish' and true 'egg shaped' the latter being the hardest to acieve.


Val.

 

[Beemerboff]

Most proferrional shops have a strong steel jig which holds the wheel spinde and the rim in correct alignment, and torque wrenches set at the correct tension.

So it is doddle with a straight, centered, rim - run in the spokes to equal tension all round , remove it from the jig and ten minutes truing it up, my local guy does a straigtforward wheel in twenty minutes for $30- , about
GBP20-
Gets a bit slower with offset rims and different length and angle spokes on single sided drum brakes----.

There is a good chapter on wheelbuilding in "The Vinagents workshop" which is now avaible for dowwnload, I think on this site and he details a home made timber jig which works quite well.