Fun with wheel building
I have a high-flanged fixed-fixed hub that I’m planning on stuffing onto the freebie GT Talera I’m building up. But I don’t have money for spokes. I was thinking of disassembling my spare Velocity Synergy wheel and lacing the fixed-fixed hub onto that, but the spokes are 277 mm and the fixed-fixed hub wants spokes that are 273 mm.
Hmm. What to do?
So I was looking around my bike mess to see if I had any packets of 273mm spokes lying around when my eyes spotted the 700D Sun CR18 wheelset that’s currently under the GT. Now, one of the problems with the Sun wheelsets is that they’re oversized for 650b (but I can still fit 650b tires on them), and it struck me that this might solve the problem. And it would; the fixed-fixed hub to the CR18 needs 277 mm spokes, so I could unlace the Velocity & Sun wheels, then take the spokes from the Velocity qnd lace them into the CR18.
It’s pretty sick and horrible, but it uses parts lying around the house!