A customer brought in the rear wheel from a Miyata Click Folding folding bike.
↑Not just the rear wheel brought in separately,
but removed from the bike they rode in on.
Two spokes are missing.
The value in writing about this is here.
The other day I rebuilt the rear wheel on a three-speed internal hub mama-chari,
and I wrote about the rear hub flange holes being "through-drilled round holes."
There's another spec called "hook-style butterfly holes,"
and I happened to get a chance to photograph an actual example.
Fixed it.
Mixing spokes of different gauges isn't good practice,
so I used the same 14-gauge plain DT Champion as the surrounding spokes.
It's hard to see in the photo, but
the replaced spokes aren't the final two crosses on the same side.
Both are outpokes on opposite sides—it just looks like the final cross when viewed from the side.
Addendum / acknowledgments:
Regarding my use of 13-gauge butted spokes in the previous article, a fellow mechanic commented that
there's also a very effective method of assembling 14-gauge plain spokes with spoke washers under the elbow
(they wrote more specifically, but since it might be that person's proprietary technique,
I won't go into the details)
Thank you very much! I'll keep it in mind as reference.
↑Not just the rear wheel brought in separately,
but removed from the bike they rode in on.
Two spokes are missing.
The value in writing about this is here.
The other day I rebuilt the rear wheel on a three-speed internal hub mama-chari,
and I wrote about the rear hub flange holes being "through-drilled round holes."
There's another spec called "hook-style butterfly holes,"
and I happened to get a chance to photograph an actual example.
Fixed it.
Mixing spokes of different gauges isn't good practice,
so I used the same 14-gauge plain DT Champion as the surrounding spokes.
It's hard to see in the photo, but
the replaced spokes aren't the final two crosses on the same side.
Both are outpokes on opposite sides—it just looks like the final cross when viewed from the side.
Addendum / acknowledgments:
Regarding my use of 13-gauge butted spokes in the previous article, a fellow mechanic commented that
there's also a very effective method of assembling 14-gauge plain spokes with spoke washers under the elbow
(they wrote more specifically, but since it might be that person's proprietary technique,
I won't go into the details)
Thank you very much! I'll keep it in mind as reference.