Mark W Posted October 14, 2005 Report Share Posted October 14, 2005 Hey, Built my back wheel fine, can I build a front disc hub up in the same way? Bearing in mind I'll be using a disc, so would that affect how I did it? 3x each side, just so's you know... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swize Posted October 14, 2005 Report Share Posted October 14, 2005 Hey, Built my back wheel fine, can I build a front disc hub up in the same way? Bearing in mind I'll be using a disc, so would that affect how I did it? 3x each side, just so's you know... When i built mine tart told me to do 2x disc side and 3x non disc side :ermm: . Sam Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CurtisRider Posted October 14, 2005 Report Share Posted October 14, 2005 surely it wud be 3x disc side and 2x on the other? cos the forces of the disc would create alot of wheel movement ive always built my front wheels with 3x either side, and put a weee bit more tension on the disc side due to the forces of the braking, seems to of worked for me :ermm: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shovel Posted October 14, 2005 Report Share Posted October 14, 2005 just built the wheel 3 cross like you would normally do but try and build the wheel quite tight and make sure the wheel is dished correctly (centered) and you'll be fine, once its built just make sure you keep an eye on the spoke tension to make sure they stay tight Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Motivator Posted October 14, 2005 Report Share Posted October 14, 2005 (edited) 3x disk side, radial non disk :ermm: Edited October 14, 2005 by Sam@SouthTrials Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomm Posted October 14, 2005 Report Share Posted October 14, 2005 3x disk side, radial non disk :ermm: That's pretty pointless though. Just go with what Tart says to be honest, if for some reason he says 2x disc side is better, I'd be inclined to believe him. No one on here has built more wheels. But I just did 3x both sides, it's fine. To be honest you'd have to do a pretty crap job to make a front wheel that didn't stay straight. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swize Posted October 15, 2005 Report Share Posted October 15, 2005 surely it wud be 3x disc side and 2x on the other? cos the forces of the disc would create alot of wheel movement ive always built my front wheels with 3x either side, and put a weee bit more tension on the disc side due to the forces of the braking, seems to of worked for me :) Yer it is sorry just posted that off the top of my head :P. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark W Posted October 16, 2005 Author Report Share Posted October 16, 2005 Ah well, built now anyway :P Dished it a bit too much to the disc-side, but there we go I guess. It's *fairly* central in the forks, so I'll take it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScotchDave Posted October 16, 2005 Report Share Posted October 16, 2005 You must have the most powerful front brake ever, right? :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dave33 Posted October 16, 2005 Report Share Posted October 16, 2005 the reason you would do 2x on the disc side is to get the wheel dished better as you dont want the dishing to be to near the disc side,that just saves playing with different spoke lengths :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark W Posted October 16, 2005 Author Report Share Posted October 16, 2005 You must have the most powerful front brake ever, right? :P Haha, I wish. Nah, it's OK, it's just that it's sorta intermittent. I think I just need to play with the setup more. It's not very progressive with how it brakes? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScotchDave Posted October 16, 2005 Report Share Posted October 16, 2005 Take water, pour on brake, ride as normal, repeat until it works well, learn to modulate it, when I got my hope mono trial I was making my front wheel skid braking, but now I stoppie to a halt. :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark W Posted October 16, 2005 Author Report Share Posted October 16, 2005 Take water, pour on brake, ride as normal, repeat until it works well, learn to modulate it, when I got my hope mono trial I was making my front wheel skid braking, but now I stoppie to a halt. :P Yeah, just spoke to some peeps about it, so I'm gonna go up The Hill with a bottle of water and sort her out once and for all :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScotchDave Posted October 16, 2005 Report Share Posted October 16, 2005 You might not wanna do that, I hear avid pads glaze really easily. :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janson Posted October 16, 2005 Report Share Posted October 16, 2005 they do. not that it matters much, i have had zero problems with my avid since i fitted it.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.