Shortly after my last update disaster struck⌗

I snapped another spoke and my rear wheel was so out of true it was unsafe to keep rolling on it, so reluctantly I hobbled it back home to park and await the spokes I would need.

I managed to get a backup bike, so I was still mobile, but it was an excercise in underbiking and definitely left me grateful to have my full size bike back up running.

Expectedly though, building a bike wheel isn’t the easiest thing in the world if you’ve never done it before.

A diassembled rim and hub motor

At first, despite the research I had done, something compelled me to look up a video on how to lace a hub motor, which unfortunately was for a 1cross pattern instead of a 2 cross pattern like was originally on the wheel, but I didn’t know that yet. Spokes too long below is an example of the wrong pattern, where each spoke only crosses one other One Cross Spoke Pattern After messing around a bit, twisting some spokes to try to make the length differential negligible, I looked back over my research and realized that I was supposed to be doing a 2 cross pattern, but I had already gottent interested in twisted spokes, had anyone else done that before? I know this thing I did was dumb and experimental, but had it paid off before? It turns out that it is an old school thing from back in the day, so that has me excited! My front wheel isn’t round enough and needs rebuilding anyway, so I’d love to test a proper 3 cross full twist lace on my front wheel for A E S T H E T I C S as well as to pay homage to this art form and show off the custom nature of my bike

Once I had compared old photos and realized the rear wheel needed a 2 cross pattern lacing it was trivial, if not for the nipples that had been rubbed raw by the screwdriver from rebuilding so many times. A fully re-laced and evenly tensioned 2 cross hub motor wheel Finally I had a wheel ready to true and dish, and eventually I got it tuned well enough within my needs.

Now it’s in better condition than the front wheel.

I’m afraid thatfront wheel needs rebuilding, but, interestingly enough, I have happened upon a reason to want to rebuild it aside from the roundness issue!

So I did some measurements and calculations and bought some spokes enough for replacements, so let’s see how a twist lace works out for me!