Any Good Recumbent Wheel-Builders

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I am looking at putting a Pantour suspension on the front of our Ryan Duplex
and was wondering if anyone has any recommendations on a quality recumbent
(i.e. 20"😉 wheelbuilder?

Peter White builds excellent wheels. He has an impeccable internet reputation. He built a 406
wheel around a SON Hub for my light several years ago and also a bomb proof 559 touring wheel for
me.

http://www.peterwhitecycles.com/

Ordering and personal help and advice can be best obtained by phone.
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Cletus D. Lee
Bacchetta Giro
Lightning Voyager
http://www.clee.org
- Bellaire, TX USA -

[email hidden] (Wolverbob) wrote in message news:<[email hidden]>...

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I am looking at putting a Pantour suspension on the front of our Ryan Duplex
and was wondering if anyone has any recommendations on a quality recumbent
(i.e. 20"😉 wheelbuilder?

Just let Pantour do it. They do a fine job of wheelbuilding.

Mark, at Poweron Cycling, builds customwheels.
http://www.poweroncycling.com/
Since I build my own, I have no direct personal experience with that, but
all my other parts purchases have been thoroughly satisfactory.

There have been a number of positive comments about him in this venue,
regarding wheels purchased from and/or build by him.
Miles of Smiles,

Tom

Andrew Douglas said:

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Quoted message said:

I am looking at putting a Pantour suspension on the front of our Ryan
Duplex and was wondering if anyone has any recommendations on a quality
recumbent
(i.e. 20"😉 wheelbuilder?

Just let Pantour do it. They do a fine job of wheelbuilding.

Possibly stating the obvious (and ready to be corrected) building a 20"
wheel isn't much different from building any other wheel. The only problem
I can forsee is that a builder without a spoke tensiometer may not know how
much to tighten the nipples.

Getting spokes can be harder - I can never find the right sizes and have to
send away to a shop with a thread-cutter.

AC

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Quoted message said:

Possibly stating the obvious (and ready to be corrected) building a 20"
wheel isn't much different from building any other wheel. The only problem
I can forsee is that a builder without a spoke tensiometer may not know how
much to tighten the nipples.

Getting spokes can be harder - I can never find the right sizes and have to
send away to a shop with a thread-cutter.

AC

Building 20" wheels *is* no different from building any other wheel.
Anybody who tells you different shouldn't be trusted.

I've built my own wheels for 25 years and I've never used a
tensionmeter. I haven't broken a spoke in ages, either. Calibrated
fingers, I guess.

Jeff

Jeff Wills said:

Quoted message said:

Possibly stating the obvious (and ready to be corrected) building a 20"
wheel isn't much different from building any other wheel. The only
problem I can forsee is that a builder without a spoke tensiometer may
not know how much to tighten the nipples.

Getting spokes can be harder - I can never find the right sizes and have
to send away to a shop with a thread-cutter.

AC

Building 20" wheels *is* no different from building any other wheel.
Anybody who tells you different shouldn't be trusted.

I've built my own wheels for 25 years and I've never used a
tensionmeter. I haven't broken a spoke in ages, either. Calibrated
fingers, I guess.

Do you have any tricks to tell how tight the spokes should be? All the usual
rules of thumb I've read seem to require perfect pitch & a 700C wheel.

AC

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Jeff Wills wrote:

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Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

Building 20" wheels *is* no different from building any other wheel.
Anybody who tells you different shouldn't be trusted.

I've built my own wheels for 25 years and I've never used a
tensionmeter. I haven't broken a spoke in ages, either. Calibrated
fingers, I guess.

Do you have any tricks to tell how tight the spokes should be? All the usual
rules of thumb I've read seem to require perfect pitch & a 700C wheel.

AC

Rule of thumb? I suppose you could call it that. When my thumbs are
too tired to tighten the spokes anymore, they're tight enough. :-)
Like I said- calibrated fingers.

Jobst Brandt's book "The Bicycle Wheel" describes a method of
tensioning the wheel to the point where it just begins to taco, then
backing off. I'm not sure that works for a 20" wheel (a 20" rim is far
more rigid than a 700C rim, for one), but I go through a several
cycles of round-true-tension before I'm satisfied. I usually consider
a wheel "done" when I've gone around the wheel several times, adding a
quarter-turn of tension each time, without disturbing the roundness or
trueness of the wheel.

Also, remember that all spoke threads and nipple sockets should be
lubed- light oil is almost perfect. You have to clean the oil off the
rim afterwards, though.

Jeff