[Mgs] Wire wheels [OT]

[Max Heim]

Yeah, yeah, it wasn't just the spoke wrench. I didn't have a wrench thin
enough for the hub, either. But my main problem is ignorance -- I can't even
figure out what size the rim is. Bike wheel sizes seem to be completely
chaotic and unregulated. The tire is marked 26 x 2.00, but the rim diameter
is more like 22.5", and the rim width is 1-3/8" measured on the outside; so,
what size rim do I order?


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Max Heim
'66 MGB GHN3L76149
If you're near Mountain View, CA,
it's the primer red one with chrome wires



on 7/17/07 2:26 PM, bill at bilking at comcast.net wrote:

> What's a spoke wrench run?  A buck two- fifty?  Come to Delaware and I'll
> let you use mine.  What other 'bike' tools do you need?  Besides it's easy
> with those squiggly spokes.  Now weaving those 3/16" stainless steel spokes
> is a bit more challening.
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Max Heim" <max_heim at sbcglobal.net>
> To: "MG List" <mgs at autox.team.net>
> Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2007 3:36 PM
> Subject: [Mgs] Wire wheels
> 
> 
>> You may recall complaints from this quarter that shops were no longer
>> willing to work on wire wheels. Now I discover that this trend has
>> extended
>> to bicycle wheels (!).
>> 
>> I just picked up a mountain bike cheap at a yard sale, wth one slightly
>> warped rim. Neither bike shop I took it to was willing to just lace on a
>> new
>> rim -- they want to sell me a whole wheel (for more than I paid for the
>> bike, BTW). I'm tempted to order a rim and do it myself, if it weren't for
>> the fact I no longer have any bike tools. Good grief...
>> 
>> 
>> --
>> 
>> Max Heim
>> '66 MGB GHN3L76149
>> If you're near Mountain View, CA,
>> it's the primer red one with chrome wires
>> 
>> [just venting...]
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