Building A Wheel

These parts will become a wheel...

The first group of spokes...

The remainder of the spokes...

Oh yeah. Take the batteries out if you're building with a PT hub...
Off to the truing stand. You can see where it starts. Totally floppy...

Then after a couple of rounds of spoke tensioning...

A few more rounds it starts to mellow out. Just a bit of wobble and hop...

It didn't take very long to get it to this point...

Building a wheel isn't very hard. It's kind of relaxing in a way. Takes a bit of patience. But as long as you tighten spokes in small increments, it's not as frustrating as you might believe.

I tried to build a wheel from scratch once when I was a kid. (After taking a perfectly good wheel apart). That didn't turn out too well. But I had no idea what I was doing, nor did I have even a proper spoke wrench. That's about all you need. You can do this without even a truing stand.

I thought about adding some recommendations. But I've only got one. Read this page http://www.sheldonbrown.com/wheelbuild.html It's everything you need to know about building a wheel. All of the advise and recommendations I concur with.

Some rim tape, tire and tube and I'm ready to go!