Wheel Pro Building Course

Learn how to build perfect wheels by your hands

CUSTOM HANDBUILT WHEELS

Help you build custom wheels

Nowadays, most bicycle wheels are made by machines. When compared with hand-built wheels by professional builders, in terms of quality, it couldn’t exceed hand-built wheels quality.

It’s not easy to be a professional, but wheel building itself is not so difficult. The only differences between professional and amateur are practice, concentration, understanding the whole process and foreseeing the interaction between components.

Through this course we can help you to fully understand the process and the interaction. And also through practice, we help your hands could remember the skills.

WHAT CAN YOU EXPECT TO LEARN?

Wheel building and truing skills

By learning the skills of Custom Hand-built Wheels, you can build your own wheels with various combinations of rims, hubs, spokes, and nipples. You will also be able to true your own wheels properly.

This is important because any wheels, even high quality wheels, could be distorted even if you ride it for a long time. Moreover, you could get a higher understanding of wheel building much more than normal mechanics in shops.

For details, please see the curriculum below. We cover all the knowledge related to modern wheels and practices with various components.

SCHEDULE

Wheel Pro building course

Contact us to open an on-demand course.

october, 2023

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INSTRUCTOR

Jerome Ahn
UBI (United Bicycle Institute. Portland USA) and DT Swiss Certified Advanced Wheel Builder

COURSE SCHEDULE

The on-demand course.

Class size is limited to 3 students.

2 and half days. 2 days 9:30 AM – 5:00 PM and half-day 9:30 AM – 12:00 AM

COURSE FEE

The course fee is RM 900. (Booking deposit RM 300 included)

Enrolment with deposit is required at least 1 week before the course starts.

WHAT TO BE PROVIDED

Special professional wheel building tools and a truing stand will be loaned to one student in the course.
We also provide rims, hubs, nipples for hands-on practice.

CURRICULUM

Understand and practice professional skills

UNDERSTANDING

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

PRACTICING

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