Bicycle Wheel Building Book

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Bicycle wheel building book. Most literature on wheel building focuses purely on building the wheels. Illustrated with over 90 color photos and pin sharp cad drawings. Boy i wish i d had this book when i started to build my own wheels. One of my local mechanics prides himself as being a really good wheel builder and he said he used brandt s book exclusively to learn how to build.

The book contains a detailed step by step set of instructions on how to build up a 3 cross spoked wheel with detailed diagrams and useful tips on truing and correct spoke tension. Custom wheelbuilding has now stopped. Plus detailed plans and descriptions to make the now famous wooden truing stand and dishing tool exactly like i use. If you re technically oriented and want to understand the why behind building wheels rather than just the how the bicycle wheel is the book for you.

For a more thorough analysis of some of the theoretical aspects of spoked wheels the standard reference book is the bicycle wheel by jobst brandt 1981 avocet palo alto california isbn 0 9607236 6 8 this is available at better bicycle shops everywhere. Please see the wheelbuilding book it contains everything i know about building and repairing wheels. If i didn t own the other two books i would probably regard this as a good wheel building guide but in my opinion the others are considerably better. An anthology of articles.

An excellent first book on the black art of wheelbuilding. Plus mine has lasted me over 20 years it s a good investment. Truing and repairing wheels. Frankly i m somewhat disappointed.

I bought a copy of jobst brandt s the bicycle wheel when it was first published in 81 and got roger musson s professional guide to wheel building e book a couple of years ago. Do you really need a course. The book is written by brandt a ferrari engineer in his day in a wonderfully unassuming manner as a person who has clearly built a few bicycles in his day and is like an almanac of his experiences laid bare and. His book is easy to follow.

After working on this version for some time i realised the book would be improved if the articles complemented each other and flowed together as a progressive volume. The book contains a detailed step by step set of instructions on how to build up a 3 cross spoked wheel with detailed diagrams and useful tips on truing and correct spoke tension. Get a comprehensive guide to wheels and wheelbuilding buy the book. Little attention is given to the finer details of the component parts.

Professional guide to wheel building is the easiest to understand the best illustrated the most current and the least expensive of the three titles. I find that schraner incorporates too. My pocket bible was building bicycle wheels by robert wright which though an interesting read and capable of getting a. The original version of this book was as such called bicycle wheel building.

The book is written by brandt a ferrari engineer in his day in a wonderfully unassuming manner as a person who has clearly built a few bicycles in his day and is like an almanac of his experiences laid bare and contains blank pages for those practicing bicycle engineers amongst us to add our own notes. It not that long so the price on it is reasonable. But that s how i learned wheel building. I bought the art of wheelbuilding on a whim to complete my wheel building library.

Building wheels road and mountain bike.