So I've been wanting to do a trike for the longest time now, (you may remember all my old posts about the town and country) Yesterday I found a old 26" trike at the local flea market, the badge on the rear end says "Burris Three Wheeler ser no 6177".
So unlike the the last time bought a trike from the flea market, this time i actually checked it out and knew a little more of what to look for before spending my hard earned cash. Everything worked great except the rear rims were pretty bent up. I figured that i could just lace some new rims to the hubs so i bought the trike.
now the trike is stripped, took the bent rims off the hubs, and have some new 26" rims ready to be laced in.
Here come the questions :?: :?: :?: :?:
I have never laced a rim before, and had my first attempt yesterday using the Sticky on this forum. Found out after i got all the spokes on that the spokes were waaaay to long. Did some more research and found that there are different length spokes depending on rim and hub size. I just tried using that DTSwiss Spoke Calculator but I'm not really sure how to use it.
How would I use this for the trike hubs/rims? Would I Select User defined for both and then plug in the measurements?
Secondly
How do i get the Pitch circle diameter
Flange distance
(/) of spoke holes
where do i measure to find this and what does the G stand for?
The No. of spokes has to be 36, I don't know what No. of intersections means? The read marks on the photo.
Im a total noob when it comes to this type of stuff :shock: . I really hope with the help of you guys ill get this done with out having to spend $120 and my LBS since I really do not like the owner. Let me know if im on the right track of if im completely retarded and this whole thread makes no sense
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So unlike the the last time bought a trike from the flea market, this time i actually checked it out and knew a little more of what to look for before spending my hard earned cash. Everything worked great except the rear rims were pretty bent up. I figured that i could just lace some new rims to the hubs so i bought the trike.
now the trike is stripped, took the bent rims off the hubs, and have some new 26" rims ready to be laced in.
Here come the questions :?: :?: :?: :?:
I have never laced a rim before, and had my first attempt yesterday using the Sticky on this forum. Found out after i got all the spokes on that the spokes were waaaay to long. Did some more research and found that there are different length spokes depending on rim and hub size. I just tried using that DTSwiss Spoke Calculator but I'm not really sure how to use it.
How would I use this for the trike hubs/rims? Would I Select User defined for both and then plug in the measurements?
Secondly
How do i get the Pitch circle diameter
Flange distance
(/) of spoke holes
where do i measure to find this and what does the G stand for?
The No. of spokes has to be 36, I don't know what No. of intersections means? The read marks on the photo.
Im a total noob when it comes to this type of stuff :shock: . I really hope with the help of you guys ill get this done with out having to spend $120 and my LBS since I really do not like the owner. Let me know if im on the right track of if im completely retarded and this whole thread makes no sense
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