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WENSLEYDALEWHEELBUILDINGWORKSHOPS
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      • About me
      • The Wheel building course
      • The Basics course
      • The Poster
      • Contact
    • Wheels
      • Rim brake road wheels
      • Disc brake road wheels
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      • MTB wheels
      • 3 peaks wheels
      • Cyclocross tubulars
    • Caps
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The Wheel building course

Spend a relaxing day in the Yorkshire Dales learning the art of bicycle wheel building. Gain an understanding of the principles behind the science involved in producing quality wheels and then build a pair of road, gravel or mountain bike wheels for you to ride! 


wheel building components

The start of the day

To begin we'll go through some basic principles of wheel building

                                                      

  • Component selection
  • Spoke counts
  • Lacing patterns
  • Rim and hub dimensions
  • Spoke length calculations
  • Tools

lunch

Beginning to build

Next we'll move onto the practical element of the day


  • Practice some basic truing techniques 
  • Develop a feel for tensioning spokes
  • Lace the front wheel
  • Completely true, tension, dish and de-stress the wheel 
  • Lunch (inc) provided by Caffé Curva in Hawes

the finished wheel

Finishing your wheels

After  lunch we'll build the rear wheel


  • Look at techniques for building rear wheels
  • Lace the rear wheel
  • Completely true, tension, dish and de-stress the wheel
  • Cleaning and maintenance of your wheels

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Testimonials

Brilliant one to one tuition, plus you come away with a new set of wheels! Plenty of time to ask questions and practice all the skills you need to build your own wheels. Mark is a patient and supportive teacher. Amazing lunch too. Excellent value for money. Highly recommended! Amy E (Gravel wheels)

Great day wheelbuilding with Mark . I am a complete novice with limited mechanical skill but mark patiently went through everything and I now have my own hand built wheels on my MTB. Emma B (MTB 27.5+ wheels)

learn to build wheels in the yorkshire dales

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