Cycle Repairing and Adjusting
With a Chapter on building a Bicycle from a Set of Parts

90 CYCLE REPAIRING in which case a special top head Ing and seat lug drilled at different angles will be required. Wheels. It will be best to begin on the wheels, unless the reader has a pair of similar-sized and pattern wheels by him, for this reason. The back wheel will be required for setting the forks and building the frame, and the front wheel will be necessary for a similar purpose for the front forks. The hubs are drilled 40 back and 32 front. The back wheel will be taken first (see Fig. 37). Thread a spoke through one hole in the flange, and another through the next hole. Cross this pair of spokes, and bring them up to the holes in the rim fifteen apart ; that is, there should be thirteen vacant holes between the two occupied by the first pair of spokes. Slip nipples on the ends of these spokes, and just screw up a few threads with the fingers. Lace another pair of spokes through the same hub flange opposite the first pair, bring these up to the rim as the first pair, and screw on the nipples. There should now be five vacant holes between one spoke of the first pair and one of the second pair on each side. Turn over the rim and hub, and put in two pairs of spokes on this side in a similar manner to the first. Go carefully round the rim and hub to see that spokes are equally spaced in the rim and hub flanges, and come up to the proper holes in the rim in relation to the holes in the flanges. If these first eight spokes are all one dead length, which should be ascertained beforehand, the nipples should be screwed down an equal distance on the spokes, so that the hub does not shake about ; but there must be no tension on the spokes yet. If this part has been properly done,