Cycle Repairing and Adjusting
With a Chapter on building a Bicycle from a Set of Parts
År: 1916
Forlag: Cassell and Company, LTD
Sted: London, New York, Toronto and Melbourne
Sider: 152
UDK: 629.118
With 79 Illustrations
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CYCLE REPAIRING
Fitting a New Rim.—To fit a new rim to replace one
broken or so badly dented or knocked about that it would
not pay to try and get it true, all the nipples must be
unscrewed. A quick way of doing this, if the nipples are
slotted on the heads, is with a small brace with a screw-
driver bit fixed therein. The nipples can be run off the
spokes very quickly by this method. Before beginning to
take the wheel to pieces, however, carefully note how the
spokes are crossed ; that is to say, how many holes apart
in the rim each pair of spokes from the flange are. A sketch
of the one side may be made, and the spokes and spoke
holes numbered to facilitate putting together. It is pre-
sumed that the new rim has been purchased ready drilled ;
this is the best way, as only a few pence extra is charged
for drilling.
In putting the wheel together, first bring a pair of
spokes up from the flange to the rim the correct number of
holes apart, run the nipples on lightly with the fingers, and
then find the pair of spokes most directly opposite on the
same flange, and bring these up to their proper holes in the
rim. This can be ascertained by counting the number of
holes in the hub flange between the first pair of spokes and
the second on each side, and then counting the holes in the
rim. The spoke holes in the rim are not drilled straight,
but on the slant ; that is, half the holes are drilled to the
left and half to the right, looking at the rim from the top.
The reason for this is that the nipple and spoke will lie in
a straight line from the hole in the hub flange to the hole
in the rim when tightened up. It will, therefore, be neces-
sary to look carefully at the rim before putting the first