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Wheel building - maybe

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  1. hippy said:

    I was about to say "what about all those downhill/fr wheels in 24"" but
    realised you were talkin' all metric boy! You could just pinch one of the
    local kid's bikes? 😉 I actually binned a bike that might've been suitable!
    See what happens when I throw stuff out! Sheesh!

    hippy


    That's something that just struck me, now you mention it - even though half the wheels made are still in inch sizes, all spokes are measured in mm. I remember working in a shop that had a cabinet with pigeonholes for all the different spoke sizes you would need, and some of them still had fractional imperial measurements under the new metric sizes (10 15/16" et. c) written next to them. They obviously weren't sure which way it was going to go for a while - or maybe there was some mythical old wheelbuilder who just couldn't convert . . .

    M "brushing cobwebs off" H

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