Professional Guide to Wheel Building 7th Edition

A complete wheelbuilding reference. By Roger Musson

130 pages, size US Letter / A4

Cost £9 (approximately $12 USD).

Delivered as an instant download in PDF format.

Building wheels - Road and Mountain Bike.

- Road and Mountain Bike. Truing and repairing wheels.

Illustrated with over 90 color photos and pin sharp CAD drawings.

Full contents page.

Plus, detailed plans and descriptions to make the now famous wooden truing stand and dishing tool, exactly like I use.

Here's the deal:

Get a comprehensive guide to wheels and wheelbuilding - buy the book. If it doesn't meet your expectations get a refund!

Your 100% no-risk guarantee. Buy the book and if you don't like it - any reason whatsoever - simply contact me within 60 days, and I'll refund your money in full.

You also get a full new book free of charge whenever a new edition is released.

What I am seeing these days, particularly in online discussions, is that people ask a question and get several different answers, some right and some plain wrong! So which answer do you go with? Which one is correct?

This book contains all the wheelbulding information you'll ever need. When you've finished reading, you'll know as much as I do - and you'll have mastered that knowledge in a fraction of the time.

Edition 8

This will fix some grammatical stuff, and include lots of small updates, but the method of building will not change. There's a brand new spoke calculator (online now) that is different to the one described in the book. The new calculator now takes into account spoke stretch, and calculates spoke lengths for triplet laced wheels, it's also a fully featured wheelbuilders tool that does more than just calculate a spoke length. So in the next edition of the book I'll be taking out the references to the old calculator and describing the features of the new one. The new calculator has a comprehensive user guide built in, please read it, because the method of rounding has changed. I plan to make changes to the calculator so you can download it and put it on your own local drive/storage (including cloud drives), at least this way you'll always have access to the calculator whatever happens. I'll be describing triplet lacing, although I've not ridden any triplet wheels, and in the current version of the book I even say don't bother with them, but they do have an interest from a wheelbuilding point of view, something different to lace, and definitely interesting when deriving the formula for the calculator. I also need to emphasise that the wooden truing stand shown in the book is not second best to expensive store-bought metal stands. It is designed around the principle of a flat engineering surface table, onto which are placed measuring gauges, it's made from wood because this gives excellent resonance properties when balancing the spoke tension by plucking spokes to check the tone on each spoke is the same, and also, being made from wood it's easy to modify it for whatever wheel standard emerges in the future!

Cheers,

Roger

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