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Chapters
0:00 Intro
1:10 The lace begins
2:09 Lace 1
3:01 Lace 2
4:22 Lace 2 complete
5:11 Lace 3
6:00 Lace 3 complete
6:16 Lace 4
7:52 Even those nipples
9:30 Ahhh TENSION
11:27 Tube, Tyre, Disc
12:02 Front Wheel Complete
5 Comments
I skipped around watching this one because it was similar to the first video like you mentioned 12:13. I'll leave a comment in lieu of watch time. I was really surprised in the videos how you could get peace and quiet filming when you had all those kids in the school run video. Must've been filmed while they were at school. lol Looking forward to the final build. I like the idea of changing out the hub, but saw other videos that said the climbing gear is not low enough, especially when bikepacking , so I'm very interested to see your thoughts when the project is complete.
Will the discs' bee hydraulic. New forks and rear triangle ?
During searches on Chinese A.E. I have seen titanium versions of a disc brake fork and a back-frame, of course with mounts for a disc brake. I don't care about the back, as my brake is by far able to block the wheel with ease, but I would love a hydraulic disc only in the front, though actually my brakes function as fine as asked for, by a more ordinary brake.
My purely hand built, Superlight carbon Mtb has a full Shimano XTR + XTR wheels, and also an oversize, hydraulic XTR 9120 brake in front and a similar brake, but with a little less size disc in the back, and they function absurdly well, as well as my possible choice of up to 33 gears!
I can't even start on a flat road in the low gears, but going up an absurd hill, with a felt risk of falling backward, they function very well, also with my feet and shoes attached to my wide frame XTR pedals!
But also the 20" wheels would give a little less heavy ride on a Brompton. So lets see what you find out? 🤔 Finn. Denmark
I definitely couldn't have done this without looking at another wheel, so when I built a wheel from scratch some years ago, I had to look at another wheel to be able to do it! But then it also became near perfect, as I had and took all the time needed to do it! And all the spokes gave exactly the same sound, when hit with a key, to assure they all had the same tension!! I look forward to see the actual bike built, with the wheels in it? I'm also sure I would definitely hate to built a "Tubeless Wheel" though (My Shimano XTR wheels are made from the Factory to be Tubeless, with no holes in the inside part of the rim and a special valve. And I haven't been able to find a "Ring" or "Winged" key for the spoke nuts, fitting their special size, so it is the "hard way", with an ordinary type key!) 😁. Finn. Denmark
I am looking at building my own folding bike, wanted to ask if Brompton uses 100, 135 hub sizes or is different, curious