{"id":1519,"date":"2009-05-02T23:25:02","date_gmt":"2009-05-03T04:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/?p=1519"},"modified":"2009-05-03T00:14:13","modified_gmt":"2009-05-03T05:14:13","slug":"functional-safe-rear-wheel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2009\/05\/02\/functional-safe-rear-wheel\/","title":{"rendered":"Functional \/ Safe Rear Wheel"},"content":{"rendered":"

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After getting home from Danielle’s house<\/a> (and listening to one episode of This American Life<\/a> each direction) I spent some time finishing off my rear wheel. Once it was dished to my satisfaction, trued, and reassembled I fitted it to my bike and went for a series of test rides. The tire was the Continental TravelContact<\/a> at 55psi, which is what was on the bike when the last two nipples broke.<\/p>\n

The first was a rather uneventful jaunt around the neighborhood using the Winwood Decksters<\/a>, so then I decided to go for a bit longer ride. After donning a headlight I took off on the ~15 mile local loop, up to (and through) River Bends, back down 21 Mile, through a neighborhood, then over to my house. Along this entire route I made a point of keeping my weight over the rear wheel as much as possible, especially when going up sidewalk aprons, over large cracks in the pavement, roots, sticks, etc. Basically, I was trying to put a bit more than normal (for me) force on the wheels.<\/p>\n

Half-way through the ride, in River Bends, a quick check showed that the wheel was just as true as when I’d left the house. Even better, I wasn’t hearing any of the occasional spoke-twang sounds from that wheel. They were still occasionally there from the front (especially when cornering hard), but the rear was spot-on.<\/p>\n

I’ll definitely be rebuilding the front wheel in the same way quite soon. Hopefully that will be the last time I touch them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After getting home from Danielle’s house (and listening to one episode of This American Life each direction) I spent some time finishing off my rear…<\/p>\n

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