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I often find 18:12 too light, been considering 18:11, thoughts?

I guess im ok with this. I can't really afford a new rim and mine is only a few months old. Disk wheel being laced 3x, reckon it'd be strong enough?

Sounds simple enough, any chance I could get a diagram drawn up? Just so theres no chance of me f**king it up

Heya guys. I wont have everything I need until Friday so I have a day or two to find out how to do this. I know it can be done. Does anyone have a guide/tutorial? Or could draw me up some diagrams?

Don' rebleed it. Aidens just being a wet.

Just finished it. Flanges with different offsets? Never. Again.

Heya guys, building up my front pro-II disk wheel and I'm getting a huuuge dish. The left sidewall is pretty much centered with the headtube. Is it a case "Half a turn on the right hand spokes, full turn on left hand"?

Using tensile offset mounts?

Finally laced it, now I have to true it. All other wheels I've laced (32h Radial, 36h 3x) have been almost true just by lacing, this is pissed all over the place. So far I hate 2x with a passion, lets hope Marks right about the stiffness.

New problem, not sure if I'm lacing it 3x by accident but, when im lacing 2x do I count the crossing spoke as a cross? So... Over a leading spoke and under a crossing spoke or do I go over a crossing and under a crossing? Edit. When I go over a leading and under a leading, once its all laced it looks 3x. If I only go over one leading when its done lacing it looks like 1x. I've only ever done 3x and radial before, could someone please link me to a 2x specific guide?

I believe you, I did definitely send you an email though. Regarding the 2x build, is it really viable? I'll admit that when I ran maggy + radial I never really noticed any flex at all but I assumed with disk it'd flex a hell of a lot more. Also, the 3-4mm was due to me miscalculating the spokes on my first try, I think I put 36h by accident or something.

Same as me then, I have 174 and 177 spokes. Looks like I wont be riding this week then.

According to multiple online spoke calcs the spokes they sent me are actually 3-4mm too short even for 2x. I guess I'll have to call in the morning seeing as my hub hasn't turned up yet. Cheers guys. Edit* Checked now on about 5 different spoke Calcs just to be sure, definitely off, unless I'm doing something wrong. Would anyone else care to check the spoke length for 2x and 3x Hope Pro-II Front disk hub laced onto a Echo Urban 32h rim?

My bad, first post edited. It's for disk, 3x both sides, I'm very surprised they defaulted to 2x anyway especially when I said that I was using it for a Pro-II front disk hub and I sent a follow up email explaining. Back to my original question, would it be ok to use? I'm going to try find the info needed for a spoke calculator as well.

That wasn't what I was asking but thanks anyway. Tarty sent me the wrong spokes by mistake and I'm wondering if they'd be long enough for 3x.

Heya guys, I ordered some spokes from Tarty and forgot to specify how I'd lace my wheel. About 15minutes later I emailed them with the order ID apologizing for not mentioning my spoke pattern and that I'd like to build it 3x. I got sent spokes with 2x circled on the spoke length slip you get. My question is, can I use these spokes to lace it 3x or do I just have to put up with it? TL:DR - Spokes the right length for 2x, can I use for 3x?

This doesn't answer his question, I'm hoping for his sake this doesn't turn into another thread with over9000 replies of "SL FTWin" or "ECHO THREEWEEL IS BEST!!1"

I finish work in Action Cycles at 6pm, reckon we could meet earlier? I don't really want to hang about by myself for ages. It'd be best to text / call me on Any other riders local to Reading can feel free to give me a shout too.

Never put water in a disk brake, when the rotor / caliper heats up it'll boil the water and you'll end up with an air filled brake. Bollocks, I guess "someone" meant Magura HS11/33, not the Magura disk brakes. Even still, it doesn't corrode the seals, it just doesn't lubricate them.

Halfords LHM plus specialist mineral fluid should do the job then.

If its a mineral oil disk brake you can pick up a big bottle of mineral oil from halfords for about £10.

I've never had any problem with my slaves, AliC also ran some Echo slaves with a water bleed and encountered no problems.

Wd40 is a degreaser with no lubricating properties. Gt85 is a degreaser with lube built in.

They do, quite a few people will tell you otherwise but I'm sure less than half of those people have even used the brake for themselves. The original brake had problems with metal filings being left inside the slaves, Echo have since fixed this.

Only the first batch of Echo brakes had problems with leaking as far as i'm aware. I run one on the front without any issues, it was either Ali C or Mark that ran a set without problems too.