Lacing a Rear 32 Spoke Wheel, 3 Cross | How to Build a Bicycle Wheel
In this tutorial we show you how to lace the drive side spokes of a rear bicycle wheel. It's important to remember that on the rear wheel the drive side spokes are slightly shorter than the non-drive side, due to the dish of the wheel. You should also prep your spokes with linseed oil or spoke prep before lacing. When lacing the drive side spokes start at the spoke hole next to the valve stem hole. Make sure it is a hole that is drilled towards the drive side of the hub. Most rims have slightly offset drilling, so the spoke holes will angle slightly toward one side of the rim or the other. When lacing, each set of spokes will be placed every fourth hole. So when lacing the outy drive side, you place a spoke every fourth hole on the rim, with three holes in between.
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On the drive side.
@JOSHAPPLE101 Lisp’s are fucking mad, what of it.
@mtgears If the rim has a label, the drive side is traditionally the side from which you can read it.
Thanks for the video tutoriaI just want to say that I followed your instructions to the letter three times! and was frustrated that the spokes always seemed to be the wrong lengths.On the fourth attempt I started lacing them from the other side of the tube hole and bingo all the spokes fitted perfectly, all a bit frustrating, but hey I finally succeeded. For your info, I was using a Hermans 26″rim and an oldish Shimano Parallax hub for a Trek T3 Mtb…thanks again. Are Hermans different?
are those spokes the titanium atomlabs?
buy aerospoke
I forgot, What is the convention for reading rim lable, left or right of bike? Also the same for tyre lable, tub’s and hp’s? IIrC rim label to left and tyre lable to right if there is no marking or construction to otherwise dictate. Any reason for choosing the ouside the flange spokes as leading spokes?
feeder spoke trick saved my life with my b43’s!
your lisp is sooo funny!
how do you kno which side is drive side?
lol, your mother’s toaster?
dat is crazy too hard for me lol
Fuck!! im atm building a wheel but i took the spokes from my old front wheel, so they are the wrong size! now i have to remove all of them goddamn
@Aliciabambesha @Aliciabambesha You have made a common mistake. Your trailing spokes are not laced in the right holes, most likely on the non-drive side. First confirm if you have the key spoke is correctly laced. Now, take out all the leading spokes on the drive side and all the spokes on the non drive side except one spoke. Now move that spoke back one hole and re-lace the rest of the spokes. If that does not work repeat the same process, but move the last spoke forward one hole.
@Aliciabambesha @Aliciabambesha You have made a common mistake. Your trailing spokes are not laced in the right holes, most likely on the non-drive side. First confirm if you have the key spoke is correctly laced. Now, take out all the leading spokes on the drive side and all the spokes on the non drive side except one spoke. Now move that spoke back one hole and re-lace the rest of the spokes. If that does not work repeat the same process, but move the last spoke forward one hole.
@Aliciabambesha @Aliciabambesha You have made a common mistake. Your trailing spokes are not laced in the right holes, most likely on the non-drive side. First confirm if you have the key spoke is correctly laced. Now, take out all the leading spokes on the drive side and all the spokes on the non drive side except one spoke. Now move that spoke back one hole and re-lace the rest of the spokes. If that does not work repeat the same process, but move the last spoke forward one hole.
@Aliciabambesha You have made a common mistake. Your trailing spokes are not laced in the right holes, most likely on the non-drive side. First confirm if you have the key spoke is correctly laced. Now, take out all the leading spokes on the drive side and all the spokes on the non drive side except one spoke. Now move that spoke back one hole and re-lace the rest of the spokes. If that does not work repeat the same process, but move the last spoke forward one hole.
lolololol 7:37
thaks man
Thanks for the vids, this along with the Sheldon Brown page = one new wheel!
@Aleowiciuos If you would use this wheel for a downhill bike with discbrakes, it is correct like this, but I can’t see any mounting holes for a rotor here.
i am sure that u dont know what ar u doing there xD
rainbow anodized titanium spokes?
Thats so funny, because I too was thinking of my mothers toaster! This dude does de je vu
i have tried to lace my rim twice and both times every 4 holes the spoke will stick out to far and the nipple cant be tighten enough to make the spoke taught am i lacing it wrong