How to a build a bicycle wheel Part 3.1 Truing 36 spoke

Truing a wheel without a truing stand. We wanted everybody to be able to build a wheel without buying an expensive truing stand, so just use the front fork. This video shows the process of truing the wheel, a little long and maybe lacking excitement, but realistic. Enjoy! www.thebiketube.com, in progress, updates next week

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• sports
• the
• bike
• tube
• bicycle
• wheel
• building
• lacing
• spokes
• nipples
• rim
• hubs
• spoke
• wrench
• lube
• maintenance
• tutorial

[chetatkinsdiet]

at around the 1:00 mark, how did you miss the joke opportunity for the "wipe the lube off the rim" comment. I had to go back and watch as I thought maybe I missed the caption. Nice work guys....

[thebiketube]

touché my friend, hahaha, that is a good call, maybe time for an annotation.

[namarkoon]

Lubing spoke nipples... eeerrr...

wouldn't recommend doing that for DH bikes and touring bikes that are destined to carry heavy loads. Spokes keep coming loose constantly.

We built loads of wheels for London Ambulance fleet - they carry something like.. I dunno.. probably 30 or more kilos on their racks. Some colleague had lubed nipples on some wheels and, weeeelll, after first couple of weeks spokes on those wheels were totally, totally loose. Had to relace them anew.

But cool vids. Thumbs up!!

[thebiketube]

Good tip namarkoon, thanks for the input!

[AirToui]

what kind of lube are you using when you are lubing the nipples?

[thebiketube]

Just your average run of the mill bike or chain lube, like tri flow, or white lightning, just something to keep the nipples from freezing up on the spokes and to make it a little easier to turn the nipples when initially truing.

[katie1987xxx]

youre kinda cute, come lube my nipples

[cassandra5322]

not ky, very important! lol

[ideasoner]

is it much different if you do a 32 spoke wheel, or even 28 spoke?

[xxkornmetalxx]

Namarkoon said not to lube the nipples because they become loose over time, so should i not lube them for my bmx bike since the wheel will be taking a lot of impact?

[L2THB]

THANK YOU SO MUCH!

[DutchKid121]

damn pal, you have a lot of patience

[rrice1991]

never thought about tightening until 3 threads are showing. im so stoked to build my BMX wheel when it comes in tomorrow. its the exact same procedure instead its not a fixed gear wheel (which I assume this is) thanks man, everyone elses tutorials was very confusing.

[NeKoShinn666]

how do u fix the bumps? like when your looking at it from the side. the rim bumps up n down -.- HELP IAM TOO POOR TO PAY FOR A GUY TO TRUE!!

[rtsoccerplayer]

lol i love all these captions

[andwedonotknowhim]

What do you need a brake for? Thought you guys were men?

[MRSPism]

@katie1987xxx ill do the job. ;) lol

[schumacherenator]

1:19 - finger Jim?! I just met the guy!