[preppie]

Hey all,

A happy 2005.

I have a Bighit and the rearwheel is a 135mm, but the rear is welded 6mm offcenter towards the driveside. So this gives the bike a 0 dish rearwheel.

So my questions are :

1) can I use my old non-0-dish wheel untill my 0 dish wheel is rebuilded ?
Or will this feel very unstable or make turns to the left when I'm steering straight, bounce me off my line or something that's noticable or anoying ?

2) The 'old' wheel is 5-6mm closer to the driveside chainstay.
Can I re-dish this wheel to 0 or is this impossible without rebuilding it with new spokes?

thx.

 

[vitox]

give it a shot, its hard to tell because that depends on many factors like the length of the (spoke) nipples and what spokes were used, but it might very well work.


as for your question about using the improperly dished wheel, well, at least on the front, a setup like that would royally suck, maybe not so much as its the rear wheel but still no good.

 

[zedro]

i think you could at least get it over half-way there.

 

[buildyourown]

You should be able to redish the old wheel with no problem. I built a dished wheel for a giant DH before I realized the rear end was assymetrical. I was able to make the wheel work with out rebuilding it or changing any spokes. Just work it over 1/2 a turn at a time. If you do it right, it should stay fairly true.

 

[preppie]

Thanks for the reply's

I'm gonna ask a friend to re-dish my old wheel to a zero dish, hopefully he can use my 'old' spokes.
I'm probably not experienced enough to do it properly and I don't have a decent truing stand.
I can only straight and true my wheels when they're a little crooked and .... replace my tires.

 

[vitox]

give it a shot, its fun to see how the whole spoke thing works, id actually be more drastic, loosen one side a full turn or turn and a half and the others tightened evenly so as to get the wheel back up to its same tension again, youll probably have to do that twice to get the rim where you want it

 

[Pau11y]

I just finished building 2, 0 dish/asym rear tri wheels for a Tomac 204. I've found that using the frame to judge dish in the case of asym rear tri frames is the most accurate instead of a dish tool. You can either eyeball it from the front of the bike or get two long straight dowels and tape them to the sides of your frame so the ends sit by your rim w/ the rear wheel installed (provided your frame is straight). Good luck.