Nowadays most bicycle wheels are built by machines. When it compares with handbuilt wheels by professional builders, in terms of the quality, it couldn’t exceed handbuilt wheels quality.
It’s not easy to be a professional but wheel building itself is not so difficult. Only differences between professional and amateur are practice, concentration, understanding the whole process and foresee the interaction between components.
Through this course, we can help you understand fully the process and the interaction. And also by practices, we help your hands could remember the skills.
By learning custom handbuilt wheel skills, you can build your own wheels with the various combination of rims, hubs, spokes, and nipples. And also you can true your own wheels correctly.
This is important because any wheels could be distorted even high-quality wheels also when you ride it for a long. Moreover, you could get a higher understanding of wheel building much more than normal mechanics in shops.
For the detail, kindly see the curriculum below. We cover all the knowledge related to modern wheels and practices with various components.
, 2022
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Jerome Ahn
Certified advanced wheel builder by UBI(United Bicycle Institute. Portland USA) and DT Swiss
The on-demand course.
Participants are limited to 3 people in a class.
2 and half days. 2 days 9:30 AM – 5:00 PM and half-day 9:30 AM – 12:00 AM
The course fee is RM 900. (Booking deposit RM 300 included)
Register at least 1 week before the course begins with a deposit.
Dedicated professional wheel building tools and a truing stand are rented to a participant in the class.
And also we provide rims, hubs, nipples for hands-on practices.
1. Understanding wheel components
Hubs, Rims, Spokes, Nipples
2. Understanding wheel building tools
Truing stand, Dishing gauge, Nipple driver, Nipple holder, Blade spoke holder, Tension meter
3. Spoke Lengths
Measuring rim, hubs
Measuring straight pull hubs
Spoke length calculation for offset rims and frames
Spoke length for non-standard nipples
Spoke calculator
4. Lacing
No cross, cross patterns
5. Truing
Lateral and radial truing, Dishing and Tensional truing
6. Repairing
Checking spokes, rims
1. Measuring
Hubs (Standard and straight full) : Over locknut distance, Flange distance, Spoke hole diameter, Pitch circle diameter
Rims : Effective rim distance
Spokes : Diameter, Width and thickness of a blade
Nipples : Size
2. Calculation
Spoke length for offset rims and frames
3. Lacing
2nd cross pattern with blade spokes
2nd cross pattern with straight pull spokes
3rd cross pattern with round spokes
Triplet pattern with round spoke
4. Truing
Lateral and radial truing, Dishing and Tensional truing
Making a wheel truing report
5. Repairing
Spokes cutting and threading