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65 of 65 people found the following review helpful
The Art of Wheelbuilding is an excellent book if you're thinking of having a go at building your own set of bike wheels, either for a road bike or a mountain bike. It's very easy to follow, and simplifies the topics without missing out any important steps.
It's also handily spiral bound, so leaving it opened on a specific page is no problem. The book covers everything from choice of components, right through to the different methods of spoking and truing the completed wheel. It also covers how the individual components are manufactured, and has information on the tools (both basic and complex) that are required or desirable for wheel building.
There are a few spelling errors that escaped the editing process, but they are minor and are easily understood.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
This book as a great format for the workshop, the contents are good for the beginner but is written like a career memory book. The lines about the author career could be used for more technical details. Nevertheless it has all the information needed to build a bike wheel, some tables and good tips.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
A reasonable instruction manual for building a wheel, especially the section on spoke lacing which is clear, easy to follow and points out the common pitfalls. However, this book is let down by unclear and sometimes inaccurate explanations of the physics behind spoked wheels, for example confusing spoke alignment with stress relieving. The author is all too keen to talk about the 'art', 'craftsmanship' and 'professionalism' of wheel building but neglects to provide sufficiently rigorous scientific explanations to back up some of his claims.
It is probably an adequate guide if all you want to do is have a go at building a wheel, but if you want to learn why some wheels fail and really get to grips with the engineering principles behind spokes wheels, I suggest Jobst Brandt's excellent book The Bicycle Wheel instead.
It is probably an adequate guide if all you want to do is have a go at building a wheel, but if you want to learn why some wheels fail and really get to grips with the engineering principles behind spokes wheels, I suggest Jobst Brandt's excellent book The Bicycle Wheel instead.
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Rambling, arrogant, dated, confusing.
This didn't really work for me at all. I bought this to work alongside the excellent ebook by wheelpro, and to be honest that is a far better guide to wheelbuilding. Read more
Published 3 months ago by Arheddis Varkenjaab
Good no nonsense guide to wheel building
From the start, you can see this guy has a passion for what he does, which at times comes across as a little arrogant. Read more
Published 4 months ago by T100martin
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great book for anyone wanting to become a wheelbuilder or if u are planing and becoming a cytech cycle mechanic great book easy to understand diagrams and lots of helpful... Read more
Published 5 months ago by Allan
If you want to build bicycle wheels, this is the book to get!
I have built numerous wheels for a variety of bicycles over the past few years. As the title suggests, this book gives one a greater insight into the true art of wheelbuilding... Read more
Published 6 months ago by M. A. Mohammed
Wheel builders Bible ?
This book was purchased by me for my partner as a gift. This is what he has to say about it.
"A thoroughly informative book, full of technical expertise both in material... Read more
"A thoroughly informative book, full of technical expertise both in material... Read more
Published 9 months ago by Kim
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