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How to Respoke Wire Wheels

Posted August 11, 2011 10:00 AM by dstrohl

To many collector car enthusiasts, the care and restoration of wire wheels is a dark art, full of complex patterns and baffling practices such as truing. But it's a necessary one, and Everett Smith wrote up a tech story that covers every step of the process of restoring a wire wheel, from stripping one down, through respoking and on to truing, with plenty of helpful hints along the way.

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08/11/2011 7:39 PM

Almost spooky how this reminds me of re-spoking push-bike wheels 50-something years ago.

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08/12/2011 10:45 AM

I worked in a bicycle repair shop for 5 summers during my youth. Never completely mastered the trueing of a wheel and never completed a full build from scratch. I got to practice on wheels that were destined for the trash and after I was finished they were definately trash. Tighten one spoke too much and you create a flat spot on the rim. That basically means the rim is scrap, get a new one, start over.

Its an art for those with a very light touch and more patience than I have.

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08/13/2011 6:51 PM

It's even trickier these days on aluminium bike rims than on the old steel ones.

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