How To Build A Bicycle Wheel
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- Опубліковано 24 чер 2024
- Building your own bicycle wheels is an accessible and fun challenge. In this video you'll be guided through the entire wheel building process, including spoke thread prep, installing your spokes and finally drawing the whole thing up to tension. Let's get building!
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Video contents:
00:00 Video Start
00:33 Preliminary Info
01:59 Typical Tools
02:57 Getting Prepped
04:55 Lacing the 1st Set
07:49 Lacing the 2nd Set
09:50 Lacing the 3rd Set
12:53 Lacing the 4th Set
14:40 Drawing Up Tension
16:56 Truing and Finishing
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• Park Tool Wheel Truing App - www.parktool.com/wta
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• A toothpick!
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Bro this is probably one of the best how to videos of all time.
Hi, I'm Joëlle, bicycle mechanic and trainer at the CyCLO DIY workshop in Brussels. A few days ago, I passed a qualification exam of wheelbuilding. The wheel fulfilled almost all of the jury's requirements. I obtained 95%, because a wheel can never be perfect ;-) Dear Calvin and Truman, THANK YOU very much for the great videos! Always very instructive and nice to watch. Let's keep learning👩🔧
You talking about professionalism??
This is probably the best video I’ve ever watch on UA-cam.
It's wheelie good. This guy should be the Park Tool spokes person
Underrated comment. Love the channel mark🐐
Downloading
Omg I literally have no business watching this Video but the guy seemed so nice I couldn’t stop watching it.
Interesting 😅
67 years old and just built my first wheel. 50 miles covered with no change of shape. So grateful for this video.
I'm 69 and I just started thinking about learning to true my wheels.
I`m 66 and also thinking about, to build a wheel. And congratulations on your first built.
Congratulations on your first build. I plan to build a set of 26" rim brake MTB wheels soon.
I'm going to follow you probably next year :)
71 and I am now confident to give it a go
This is my favorite video of all time. I watch it every morning and evening before supper.
A wheel building hors d'oeuvre!
This has to be one of the best produced videos on bike mechanics I've ever seen. Great editing, voice recording, super simple to understand. Thanks so much for sharing this.
I did it! First time building wheels and it has become another fun part of my hobby. Tried it about 15 years ago but this time was a success. Thanks for the precise and clear instructions.
Nice work!
Well done ! I have many wheels ideas and wanna give it a try hassle free. I'm a good non professional mechanic already, what do you think are mandatory for building wheels, same as suggested in the video ?
This is masterclass of not only wheel building, but instructional videos. Followed along step-by-step and built my second wheel. My first one a couple years ago seemed like such a pain.
I love the fact that they wasted no words in explaining everything. No side comments, no jokes, no snark, just solid and clear advice.
This is an exemplary video in every way - production quality, presentation, content, clarity, supporting information... and I see from the comments that other people recognise it too. Six stars! I'm about to rebuild a wheel for the first time with complete confidence.
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Best of the best.
Excellent video...........excellent comment!! DD
Using colored spokes as they did is the key to explaining this procedure in a video.
I did it! I just finished building my wheel!
Great tutorial. I couldn't have done it without this video.
Wheel building is an amazingly liberating experience!! Was a USCF Cat III many years ago and was on a 250-mile per week regime back in the day. Blew up a wheel on Sunday morning and would be doomed to miss my training ride. So, I cracked a book, de-laced the potato-chipped wheel, got a new MA-40 and replacement spokes and began lacing. The WHOLE KEY was spoke length. From that moment on, I went on a wheel building binge -- even doing it for my team mates! I became a cycling God and the go to wrench for those guys.
Nossir! No more begging for autographed water bottles or old jerseys from the arrogant shit Cat IIs on the team! _THEY_ made appointments with me and I made them grovel. I even got one of 'em to give me leadouts on the 30 and over weekly crits in exchange for building him wheels!
hi, i ve built a wheel using this tutorial and a couple others. i had to tighten the spokes afterwards 2-3 times after i rode on that wheel but i think i did about 1500 km on that wheel and no spoke broke yet. It has been a fun process for me, i ve built it in a couple of days, i think i worked on it about 30 mins each day. this tutorial has been very helpful to me, its nice because i could follow along while building the wheel.
In an age where everyone is a critic and cynical I was happy to see people here felt the same as me: this video was just absolutely fantastic. I built a wheel all from this video, having never done it before. This video was clear, complete, AND concise, something extremely rare in this day and age. Well done.
Thank you. This video is an outstanding contribution to the universal human knowledge bank called the internet. This vid makes wheel building accessible for everyone. It is amazing!
I learned pre-UA-cam by copying another wheel. So many frustrating mistakes could've been avoided had I had access to a video like this back then.
whoa! been there, done that, too!
let's get a soda and chill.
@@rodneyjohnson4794 I woulda been there!
Yes, because books didn't exist back then.
Or just the leaflet that comes with the spokes.
No better person to learn wheelbuilding from than the TRUEman!
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don't do that again please lol
For me Oz cycles version is way simpler.
You mean Calvin Jones
True man show 😅
Oh, I wish I watched this video 25 years ago!
You are just the best I ever seen 👍✌️
This is by far the best wheelbuilding video I've ever seen, thank you!
i've built bikes from raw frame up but never a wheel.
a relative recently had an issue with some broken spokes, even after it'd been to his lbs.
i was not confident and watched some other videos that frankly left me totally confused.
i then found this video - wow - shining a light thru the murk!!!
best produced and clearest, most concise explanation of the entire wheel building process by miles.
thanks for a brilliant job!!!
I have dreamed many years to build a wheel's for me. Seeing this video I decided that is this winter, when I build my wheelset for next summer. :)
well, you'll have a lot of time to get it right!
I just used your video to help build my first wheel in over 20 years! Thanks for filling in all the memory loss gaps lol :)
A very good idea to use different colours for the spokes. Made the overview a lot easier.
Thanks, and it makes a lovely finished product! ua-cam.com/video/5TPym-KuH40/v-deo.html
I've been a motorcyclist for years but recently just got super into mountain biking. Alongside that I love tinkering and customizing. The idea of building a wheel was the most foreign concept to me but this video gave me a ton of confidence. I really want to try building my own bike now!
Your wheel building videos are fantastic. It had been 20 years since my last wheel building lesson ended in failure. This time, with your help, I have made wheels that are laterally true, radially true and have proper spoke tension. And the spoke tension values are all within 10% of each other! You have provided excellent videos and tools, thanks!!
I was so frustrated! I watched many videos and had fail 4 times… finally got it done ! Excellent video! Thanks 🙏🏽
Thank you ParkTools. This video saved me a bunch of money and is keeping me ridding. I was having issues with my current wheel set, so I figured a spare was in order. After searching internet and being told it would be weeks or months until a new set, i ordered the parts and got to work. It has taken me about two weeks to build the set, only working on in the evenings. I am more than satisfied with my results, I not only learned how to build a strong wheel, but learned what can make a wheel strong and keep it true and reliable. I didn’t go crazy high end with the wheel set, but i did get quality parts that should last until i tackle another set of wheels or rebuild the current set i have. Thank you again
As usual, the most accurate and to the point explanations. Great video folks!
When I build wheels...I have this video open and it walks me through it. Awesome!
Greetings from Germany,
I've just ordered the blue book 4th edition. You are doing a great job. Just Built my 6th wheel, two rear with motor and four front wheels. I always com back to your colored setup, which helps a lot. Great explanation.
Keep on going with good stuff like this.
Dietrich
Winsen upon Aller - Lüneburger Heide - Lower Saxony
I used to be terrified of building a wheel lol. Not anymore. Thank you Park Tool for yet another well done video and tutorial. Can't wait to give it a shot! Will report back to the comments with results.
So what was the result?
@@PowderRider23 Still haven't done it lol! Still on the fence about hub selections.
Yu deserve 5star yu are a real teacher , i was able to built my wheel following yo video , now i can fix everything on a bike
This video is all you need to build a wheel. It is perfect. Last year I built my first wheel following this video and rode it for a wheek downhill in the Pyrenees. It did not move and is still as good today 8 months of hard riding later. The skill seems to come from being methodical, with a little bit of fine feel being helpful too. Thank you for making this and the accompanying videos too.
Just followed this guide to the letter, I cannot believe how perfect the wheel came out. Thank you guys so much. The TRUman is the man.
I just put a bike together which I collected from peoples garbage. Spokes were a wreck. Rim all damaged. Found this video and it helped me fix a wheel. New bike from people's garbage. Made it run like new. Thanks to this video.
Thank you, thank you, thank you! I was given some printed instructions with a different method which worked OK for a front wheel with an instructor standing over me. Flash forward a couple of years, me needing to build a rear wheel without an instructor to correct me and failing miserably on several occasions using the printouts. First time using this video and it laced up marvellously.
Chapeau, Park Tool!
Great video! I've already built a few wheels myself and was watching to learn any new tips and tricks. One that helps me a lot, but wasn't mentioned here, is to number the spokes after lacing to help keep track during tensioning and truing. I write the spoke number starting at the valve hole in marker pen on the brake-track of each side (in this case 1 to 16). This helps me to remember which spoke I just tightened/loosened and which are loose or tight.
It has been two years since I built up wheels for my GasBike. As per your video, they were 3 cross lacing. Followed instructions, so it was straight forward. Two years later and I am finally getting around to lacing up a wheel for my Ebike. Difference is it is a 2 cross. I went back to your video to review, but was not quite sure if the process was the same, so i started to look at other videos showing a specific 2 lace process. They were completely crap. What I realized how good your video is, so with a minor adaptation it was an easy build. You and Park Tools are to be commended for your superior product.
Can I ask you what was the minor adaptation was you had to make? I’m in the same boat love the video but not sure what I have to change for 2 cross.
Best video of relacing on youtube
The most thorough comprehensive video on building a wheel.
Great video i put a new dynamo hub in my 700c rim
I used my forks and cable ties as a truing stand
Two glass jars with lids and coins as my dishing tool
Took me about 4-5 hours my best tool is a spoke key
My wheel is super smooth and your video is 100% thank you
Wow! I've built wheels for 20 years and this is the best explanation for lacing spokes so your pump has the free space it deserves. If your spoke measurements are correct, this video leaves you with a 90% finished wheel in an hour. I only wish I saw this two decades ago.
Its been great to watch this and finally see the strategic process of building a bike wheel since I've enjoyed riding bikes for 60 odd years. Cheers.
I have assembled a wheel in over 20 years. This video is outstanding. Used this to refresh all the details. Put my new hubs, old spokes and old rim together in the time of this video. Did it on the floor of my family room. The dishing and truing will be done on my Park Turing Stand in the garage, on my work bench, on a warmer day.
The guide couldn’t be any better! Just built my first ever pair with ease following your steps! Huuuge thumbs up! 💪
20 min video felt like 2, perfect knowledge in such a flow
A friend is helping me build a wheel to convert my fixie to a 3-speed. While his help has been great and he suggested I watch this video, his suggestion came AFTER we laced the wheel. I wish I had known about this video first, it was great!
Hi, I just wanted to say: We met in Frankfurt in 2022 at the Eurobike and talked a bit, and now I am back again learning from you on UA-cam! Infinite thank you for the knowledge you share here!
With the help of this video, i built quite a few wheelset.
I built a rare 2020 atomlab pimplite custom wheelset, for my dirt jump bike, and those are the roundest and the straightest wheels i've built so far.
When built with a gauge, the wheels were at 130 kgf within a margin of 2% !! I loved doing it.
Then i built quite a few downhill wheelsets, a few fixed gear carbon wheelsets, a bmx wheelset, and tried some variations in the lacing process.
I'm literally having a blast spending les than an hour and a half for a complete wheelset !!
An undished wheel is easier to build, laterally stronger, and easier to keep round and true. Their spokes can be set to higher tensions. Some complain that high spoke tension makes a stiffer, more rigid wheel. But they say it like it was a bad thing. The higher tension makes the wheel a rigid unyielding disk, a perfectly reliable wheel. All the cushioning you want can be gained from the using lower pressure in the tires, and even more, by mounting the seat on a seat spring.
best wheel building video i've seen so far! I successfully build 2 wheels thanks to this video! thanks guys
Fantastic video… Been building great wheels for years and still learned a thing or three. Great content and clear directions. This is the kind of stuff that makes UA-cam good. Thank you Park Tools!!
Learned wheel lacing the hard way, I have to use one of my older wheels as a reference and repeated practicing in my other old wheel for about 5 times until I'm confident enough to build my new wheel. Done it in about an hour per wheel and realized it's a skill worth learning.
Great video for beginners!
Absolutely brilliant, I now fully understand how to lace a cycle wheel and will proceed with confidence. Thank you.
Wheel building is one of the most tedious and frustrating things I've ever done but very satisfying!
Do you want to paint your spokes now? I do!!! 😁
@@irvsstella
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Try doing it on an electric hub motor even harder as you got to order specialised short spokes to fit
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I think someone's cat got frustrated watching this video.
Best and very accurate video over UA-cam about wheel building which I watch so far. The steps are very similar to wheel building books which I read now about that. Also to stress relief with spoke squizing method is the best to be done.
I can confirm that this tuitorial is very helpful. I finished lacing my new wheelset and its the same as my old one . Not bad for a first timer . Thanks a lot for this vid
Thanks a lot, this helped me build my new rig up from head to toe!
True pros. Excellent explanations. Just like a good teacher. There are many good specialists, but not so many good teachers in their fields.
I really have to thank you for this great video! I had to replace a cracked rim for the first time, and with your video it went super easy and without any problems, even though in my case it was a 24-spoke rear wheel. Keep it up, with your tips I'm learning to repair my bike myself instead of hiring an expensive workshop...
Great video, very very detailed and quickly explained without any useless information. A person who never put a wheel together will definitely be able to do it after watching your video👍, love the videos keep it up✔️✔️
Best wheel lacing video I have ever seen
I've built about a dozen wheels and I learned so many useful tricks in this video. I used to use a cut off toothpick to put on nipples but the Efficient Velo Tools Mulfinger tool is a metal version that works amazing.
You can make a nice nipple driver from a Phillips head screwdriver bit. Just grind or file off enough of two opposite splines so the nipple locks onto the bit.
You can use this in your fingers to screw nipples onto the spokes while lacing or put it in an electric drill for the first round of tensioning and getting all the nipples engaged evenly. A simple, inexpensive and effective little tool!
Ive made similar use tools like your toothpick from an 1/8" metal rod. I just filed a long taper so the nipple held on by an interference fit. This will last far longer than a toothpick. But this won't work for the preliminary tensioning.
Correction.....I have not assembled a wheel in over 20 years. This video is outstanding. Used this to refresh all the details. Put my new hubs, old spokes and old rim together in the time of this video. Did it on the floor of my family room. The dishing and truing will be done on my Park Turing Stand in the garage, on my work bench, on a warmer day.
Great stuff! A little tricky flipping the wheel so much. Just keep track of your spokes and which side they go on during your build. Can’t stress that enough. I also tap the j-bend side of the spokes with a rubber mallet to help seat them
Park Tool is one of those very rare companies that actually respects consumers and its customers. Truly one of the last great brands out there.
Just built my first wheel using this video, spot on, easy to follow and I have a great wheel. Many thanks for the upload, it's super useful
As I'm building my 13th wheel (and the seventh wheelset), I find myself yet again watching this video.
Just the video I was looking for! I have 2 “still new looking” 21spd Raleigh bikes where many of the spokes on all 4 wheels broke. My local bike shop wouldn't re-spoke them, insisted I just buy new wheels. Well, they no longer make these matching Xrims, so...... I decided to turn this into a DIY job.
thanks Truman, I have now built two wheels thanks to your video! Tell Calvin I used his video to figure out the lengths of the spokes I needed to buy!
I love these videos....they have given me a real appreciation for riding my bike and the ability to fix issues along the way.. ty
I built a few wheels back in the 80's based on a book by Jobst Brandt called "The Bicycle Wheel" which was a great book but man I would have loved to see it in action like this. I find myself again needing to rebuild one after all these years and am thankful for your demonstration.
Just what I needed. Thank you Park Tool.
I watch this video every time I build a wheel, just to keep myself in check. Well done!
Hiyya. I'm at the start of my wheel-building journey. These videos are a fantastic resource both for beginners and improvers. Thank you.
Yay, well explained and easy to understand , I finally laced my rims after watching this .
Great job 👍
Great wheel building instructions Park Tool.
I now have a set of 700c disc gravel wheels that I built, it`s always a good feeling building stuff for yourself.
Thanks guys.
Laced up my first wheel. This tutorial is one of the best out there if not the best.
I can't tell you how helpful this video was! I just laced my first set of wheels and they came out great. Thanks!
Best wheelbuilding demo out there! Thanks.
How I wish my teachers back in College were this good in explaning things
Just finished lacing my new wheelset. Big thanks to this video tutorial.
Hey thank you Park Tool Team. This was super helpful. Somehow I laced my rear wheel from another video a few months back and she been solid ever since but lost the ability to and the other videos didn’t get me back to where I was. This did though. You guys rock. Every bit of color and little detail in this is what makes it the best wheel lacing video I’ve seen plenty of them. Haha 😂 so thanks again.
The point of UA-cam.
I'll build my first bike wheel today.
Thank U!
Thanks so much!!. This is by far the best tutorial I have seen so far in my struggle to build a wheel. The method I learned as intern at a bicycle shop was difficult to repeat. I understood what I did with help from the mechanic in the shop but had hard times repeating it and doing it myself. I think with this detailed video I wil get it right. 🙂
i've build hundreds of wheels, but oil between rim and niples looks like very good idea, thanx
The informational edits in this are next level, thanks editing human!
Great video... just did my first wheel. I took my time following carefully the steps from the video and managed to achieve even better result than the local bike service.
Thanks!
Very good video! This helpt me a lot when changing hub on my kids bike for the first time. You can do this without any fancy tools !
If you are going to do this for the firs time i have some good tips.
First of all take off the wheel.
Take a knife and do a scratch where the spokenuts sits on the spoke, do one on each side of the rim.
Take the rubber, hose and rim tape of.
Take four papers and write.
Left, inserted from inside out
Left, inserted from outside in
Right, inserted from inside out
Right, inserted from outside in.
Take a small wrench and skrew clockwise to release some tension on all spokenuts. Then use a screwdriver with a flat key, run it counterclockwise from outside of the rim and release all the spokenuts.
When you have the hub free with all the spokes left on it you have to think in the bikes rolling direction. Gear side = right side.
Start to take the spokes out and stay to the same side and type of spoke. *Left side inserted from outside and in* gose on the paper with that text and so on.
You should end up whit four piles of spokes, one pile on each paper. And between 8-9 spokes/pile.
Then continue as the video.
When your done and you have all spokes in place you can place the wheel one the bike (upsidedown)
Use the screwdriver clockwise and tightening the nut but leave one milimeter left from the scratch.
Then you can take two zip ties one on each leg.
One on the side of the rim and on over the rim.
Then yo have to practice and learn what's happening and tightening the nuts. Use the small wrench now and tightening a little all the way around until the weel is straight and have some tension in the spokes. Sometimes you have to undo on one side to get it right but you will lern !
I did all this in just 2 hours and ended up with a straight rim. Good luck 🤞
Thanks for a really outstanding video. My build came together great
I will try to build my first wheelset within the next weeks. 32 Spokes and 3 Crossings as you did. Thanks for this video giving me confidence
Can u tell me how it went?
@@andreysantos1945 It went great. Its not that hard as you might think. Just keep calm, stay focused and do little steps, have the overall balance in mind when turning a nipple.
this is the best video i have ever seen when it comes to wheel building, lacing and truing.. brilliant park tool. your tutorial helped me a lot. GOOD JOB PARKTOOL and the rest of the guys! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
I don't even remotely need to build a wheel. PT videos are so good I just watch them for fun these days
Perfect video,I was able to build a great wheel with ease and many more after, thanks!
Great video, very easy to follow. Figured a 36 spoke must be the same, but with an extra spoke in each quarter, and it worked like a charm!
Thanks for the tutorial!
ive built many wheels but not often so its great to have a video like this where i can skip through to the different labeled parts for a quick refresher such as which way to twist the hub on the 3rd set and where to put that first spoke. i always forget those 2 things
Does it actually matter? I can see it is important which side of the flange the elbows go to allow the 1st 2 crosses to not interfere with the path of the spokes.
@@guyaustin5962 if you twist a different way you are going to put a cross over the valve hole, whereas if you put the first spoke in the right spot and twist the right direction you will end up with two parallell spokes next to the valve and none crossing over it, allowing you to put a pump on it easier
The best! This video could not be improved on! Well done and thank you!
I come back to this video every time I build a wheel. Thanks again park tool
wheel building de-mystified! this channel really is a one-stop shop for all your bike mechanic needs!
Great video with clear and concise explanation. Built my first wheel after watching this video.