Wheel Bling

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...old Campy hubs ( 122 OLD in the rear) and brand new H+Sons TB 14 rims. 

Very shiny and relatively light for the Richard Sachs bicycle project.

 

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...another set of Mavic Open Elites on Shimano RSX hubs for a Ron Cooper that has mismatched wheels.

I think these might be slightly better rims than the TB 14's, but they're also heavier.  The 32 hole ones can be had for half the price, though. 

 

 

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...yes. I do use a rubber mallet for stress relieving.  It relieves my stress when I hit stuff with it.

[Square Wheels]

Nice work area.

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...I ran out of decent hubs to lace, and I still need to do some more wheel projects.

So I finally got around to harvesting the stuff out of the pile of old tubular wheelsets over in a corner under a tarp.

 

I dismantled and cleaned up a few of them yesterday. Still probably ten or a dozen hubsets to run through the ultrasonic and rebuild.

They made these Campy high flange sets for a long time, and the QR skewers evolved over the years.  But not much.

[donkpow]

Nice. It is very difficult to find old hubs in good shape. Most often, the races are totally shot.

[Razors Edge ★]

I can only say I am a wee bit jealous of your collection of tools, parts, and skill. It is nice that some folks are keeping these older bits around if only for the impressive craftsmanship of the bikes and parts.

Tom

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11 hours ago, donkpow said:

Nice. It is very difficult to find old hubs in good shape. Most often, the races are totally shot.

...look for tubular wheelsets from the 70's. A lot of them only got used as race wheels, and got less abuse than the rims and tyres on them.

Also, there is (or at least was) a portion of them got taken off and replaced with clincher wheel sets, bought instead of rebuilding on the original hubs.

Those are often in decent shape, again because they did not log a lot of miles.  They usually look pretty awful on the exterior, but clean up well.

 

I cut them out with a small bolt cutter from Harbor Freight used on the spokes near the second cross.

[donkpow]

1 hour ago, Page Turner said:

I cut them out with a small bolt cutter from Harbor Freight used on the spokes near the second cross.

Yeah, that's what I do. Cut both spokes at once.

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...put these together yesterday for a Schwinn Voyageur that's a nice bike, but had crappy rims with little or no bead hook.

These babies are awesome....box section rims, a very aggressive bead hook, and lighter than the original Araya rims that were on it.

 

 

[maddmaxx ★]

On 3/1/2018 at 10:52 AM, Square Wheels said:

Nice work area.

It has to be fake.  Nobody has a work bench that clean.

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