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

BUILDING A CYCLE 9* and the spokes are of an equal length, the rim should run fairly true when spun by holding the spindle in the fingers. If this is not so, look for the fault and correct. With these first eight spokes properly started and rim roughly true, the remainder of the job of putting the wheel together is simple, as when a spoke is laced through the hub flange and brought up to the rim, its length will show at a glance the proper hole in the rim to which it should go. Put a washer and nipple on each spoke as inserted in the rim, first screwing on with the fingers. The front hub and rim will be found to be drilled thirty-two holes, and is put together in the same manner as the back wheel, except that the spokes are laced eleven apart instead of fifteen. That is, in beginning the first pair of spokes there should be nine vacant holes between the first pairs put in (see Fig. 38). When all the washers and nipples are on, go over both