After waiting three months for the rim to arrive my new
gold anodized Velocity deep-V rim finally showed up at
Percys. So, yesterday I went up to the shop and got a lesson in wheel building from
Wheel-Building Jedi Master Percy.
I now have laced up my first rim to a
Surly fixed gear hub with 32
DT Swiss spokes. The wheel looks sharp as hell and will be going on to my Raleigh (
1,
2). It took about two hours to finish and afterwards it was pretty obvious that I will eventually need to get a new bike for such a sweet rim. One thing at a time.
Thanks
Percy.
Fancy; Joe has gold on his wheel rims ;)
ReplyDeleteI don't know Diddly about all this, but I think that it might improve your speed...true or false ??
Have fun cycling !
they are super fancy.
ReplyDeletethey might make me go faster but its set up to a fixed hub, which means i can only go as fast as i can pedal.