wheelbuilder Dublin based

Taxuser1

any wheelbuilder's of note on Dublin's southside you would recommend ?

cython

Dara in Beecycles in Dolphin's Barn always comes highly recommended around these parts.

easygoing39

Cliff in 2 Wheels on Sth William St

Fender76

+1 on Cliff.... excellent work and a gentleman...

Jim Murphy 69

cython wrote: »

Dara in Beecycles in Dolphin's Barn always comes highly recommended around these parts.

Dara is an absolute perfectionist. Superb wheel builder with pedantic levels of attention to detail. Cannot recommend his wheels enough!

Taxuser1

thanks all

i'll give them all a shout. i've an old powertap which is working fine. Got it off one of the lads on this forum. Was thinking of building it onto a more aero rim and spokes for use in time trials only.

has anyone gone about doing that themselves and offer any advice ? was it costly ? is it best to leave the wheelbuilder source the components required ? would it work out cheaper than to just go and get a new powermeter which to be fair I don't think I need outdoors much, save for the TTs ?

granty1987

You could always give it a go yourself. I built two wheels last year and really enjoyed the process - cheap too

easygoing39

Cliff has built a good few wheels with Powertap hubs,as the shop sold Powertap in the past.

Kaisr Sose

granty1987 wrote: »

You could always give it a go yourself. I built two wheels last year and really enjoyed the process - cheap too

Well done! Did you teach yourself? Had you a jig, spoke tension meter, dishing tool or just work from the eye ?

I watched the late Steve Flynn build loads of wheels and he just used an old frame and a coin to balance , no jig, no meter — a true craftsman.

OP: I heard only good things about Dara in Bee, but he will tell you himself, he is not cheap!

jntsnk

Ashford Cycles, he is amazing with truing or building wheels and great value.

http://www.adverts.ie/6751129

Taxuser1

granty1987 wrote: »

You could always give it a go yourself. I built two wheels last year and really enjoyed the process - cheap too

something i'd love to do but honestly wouldn't ride wheels I'd put together myself !

cdaly_

Kaisr Sose wrote: »

Well done! Did you teach yourself? Had you a jig, spoke tension meter, dishing tool or just work from the eye ?

I watched the late Steve Flynn build loads of wheels and he just used an old frame and a coin to balance , no jig, no meter — a true craftsman.

http://www.wheelpro.co.uk/wheelbuilding/book.php. That and about two hours making a stand from an old kitchen cupboard and a dishing gauge from a Fine Geal election poster. Spent €10 on the book and €6 on bolts and wingnuts for the stand. Two or three wheels built since and various trueings.

granty1987

Kaisr Sose wrote: »

Well done! Did you teach yourself? Had you a jig, spoke tension meter, dishing tool or just work from the eye ?

I watched the late Steve Flynn build loads of wheels and he just used an old frame and a coin to balance , no jig, no meter — a true craftsman.

Nope, all I had was a spoke tool and a borrowed bike stand from a friend for final tensioning and trueing when the the wheel was laced up and on the bike.

Pretty sure I just followed Sheldon Brown for the wheelbuilding technique. I reused the existing hubs, bought new spokes, nipples and rims. The old rims had slight indents from the old spokes so it was easy to see the pattern that was used last time. This determined that I was going to use the same lacing set up

After that it was a case of just sitting down for a few hours tinkering. The second wheel was a lot faster than the first.

Use q tips for applying some lubricant onto the threads of each spoke.

Having q tips (cut in half and flattened to make a little flat screwdriver) were quite handy for the initial part of screwing the nipples onto the spokes as you could stick the two together easily without the nipple falling off (its a pain getting a loose nipple out of a rim btw)

For trueing, I taped some paper around where the brakes are which acted as reference points when i spun the wheel - ie if it the wheel bulges and touches the paper on one side (or on top) then i tighten around that area to center it.

One thing that is important is to re-tension all of the spokes (especially in the rear wheel) a day or two after you build them as they bed in a bit and can become VERY loose which i forgot about

I bought DT Swiss Competition spokes with their brass nipples on Rosebikes and found the rims i wanted on the cheap somewhere. Whole thing cost me €80 I think

paul a newman

Dec O Shea in T.M.G.Cycles in Skerries builds my wheels, I am 95k and do a lot of audax events, and rarely have problems with wheel build.

Hunterbiker

Another shout out to Ashford Cycles.
he has built me 2 sets of wheels and no issues with either.