Relacing a wheel

[ozkat]

I need to relace the rear wheel on my old TT600, 4 broken spokes and most of the rest loose. Id prefer to completley respoke it. Any tips would be great.

[Bear]

Respoke is pretty easy - just do it one spoke at a time and tighten each spoke individually to the same pitch before moving on to the next spoke. Remove the old spoke and replace, tighten, then move onto next one.

Start off by tightening all the existing ones to the same pitch ie. whack them with a tool and listen to the pitch of the sound. They should ring a little. If they sound "dead" or dull = too lose. You may already know this stuff but just posting in case others don't.

[ozkat]

Thanks Bear, no i didnt know any of that. I was going to get the rims and hubs powdercoated and start from scratch. Maybe even do a rear disc conversion for the old girl, The rear drum brake is a bit ordinary.

[chopaweeza]

I got lucky and found a old copy of The Blue Un' that showed a home made truing stand made out of an old swingarm . Really simple to make and simple to use . I've done half a dozen and really hate doing it but I'll share with you some tricks .

The tricks to re-lacing a wheel are - Take photos from every angle to show the way the spoke pattern lays out - Set the wheel on the truing stand , make a shitload of measurements and set up a dial gauge on it in the right place so the rim should perfectly line up when the job is properly finished- Practice stripping and re-lacing a crap wheel first - Don't over tighten the spokes & buckle the rim - Get a proper spoke spanner(available at most specialist Trail Bike Parts places like Ballards) - Check on the vintage bike forums for threads on re-lacing - And it's not as easy as it looks so take your time

[gixkat]

hey shayne this is a good site with a very detailed wheel lacing section.
cheers, GK
http://www.hondachopper.com/Manual.htm

[zedsled]

My advice to you would be to get them professionaly done, as its can be quite difficult to get them straight, at the very least you will need to build a jig to hold/spin the wheel and alot of hours spent on what is pretty cheap to get done.I just got my wheels laced up at ashs last week. For a complete lace up and trueing was only $80 a wheel, so probably cheaper for what you want. he offset my hub for me to allow for the wide rim and didn't put a single mark on my freshly powdre coated hubs or rims, dropped them off on Wednesday, they were ready Friday Morning.
Just my 2cents worth

[gixkat]

http://www.streetfighters.com.au/forum/upload/175381412134944.jpg


http://www.dansmc.com/spokewheels.htm


Hey Shayne dont know if it's too late or not,but i used this link to work my way thru my first lace up and truing of these wheels and it worked like a charm mate, about two hours for the first wheel and an hour and a half for the second, managed to true them up to within .3 of a millimetre using this guys method and a dial guage.
cheers, GK.