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Workshop: How to lace a wheel

Your first job is to get the right length spokes handy.

  • Keeping the hub disc side up, count another seven holes clockwise from the spoke in the drive side flange.
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  • Your first job is to get the right length spokes handy.
  • Holding the rear hub so it hangs vertically, drop a disc side spoke downwards into the disc side flange.
  • Separate the spokes and insert the disc side spoke into the eyelet on the rim that’s next to the valve hole (counter-clockwise).
  • With the hub disc side up, count seven holes clockwise from the spoke in the disc side flange.
  • Thread another spoke downwards through the hole two spaces clockwise from the one already downwards in the hub.
  • Complete this side of the wheel by inserting a spoke up through the flange two holes counter clockwise from the one already upwards.
  • As you assemble the drive side you may need to flex already fixed spokes out of the way.
  • Get the font wheel hub and, holding it vertically, drop a disc side spoke downwards into the disc side flange of the hub.
  • Separate the spokes and insert the one in the disc side into the eyelet next to, and counter clockwise from, the valve hole.
  • Count seven holes clockwise from the spoke in the disc side flange, then insert a spoke up through that seventh hole.
  • Count another seven holes clockwise from the spoke in the non-disc side flange and then insert a spoke downwards through that seventh hole.
  • With the hub disc side up, put a spoke downwards in the hole two spaces clockwise from the one already downwards in the hub.
  • Complete this side of the wheel by inserting a spoke up through the flange two holes counter clockwise from the one already upwards in the hub.
  • With the hub disc side down, put a spoke in downwards, two holes counter clockwise from the one already downwards in the hub.
  • Put the spoke into the rim four eyelets clockwise from the valve hole, lacing over two spokes and under a third.

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Your first job is to get the right length spokes handy.

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