buchannan spokes in california! ROFLMAO! my stainless set of spokes for
my italian built (aermacchi) harley pit bike project arrived saturday!
beware! if you call them for spokes as a guy you get a very akward
conversation with a very nice young lady about spokes and "NIPPLES"!
calling a stranger who sounds like a young attractive lady discussing
nipples is just not quite right! trust me it was tough at the very least!
but i got my nipples! ;)
chuck.
32 years with the same darn sprite and counting.........nipples, couldn'ta
they applied another name to da piece that sticks through da rim? what
in da name of george were they thinking of........marylin monroe's sweater
or dagmar's sweaters??????? sheeeesh! right up there with trying to
explain "male" and " female" fittings with a stranger of the opposite
sex.....AKWARD at the very least!
c.
> [Original Message]
> From: Jim Johnson <bmwwxman@gmail.com>
> To: Timothy H. Collins <thcollin@mtu.edu>
> Cc: <spridgets@autox.team.net>
> Date: 02/20/2006 2:13:38 AM
> Subject: Re: Wire wheel spokes
>
> On 2/19/06, Timothy H. Collins <thcollin@mtu.edu> wrote:
> > I am working on replacing a few spokes in wire wheels. I have a donor
wheel
> > from which I am "harvesting" spokes and nipples.
> <snip>
>
> Tim,
>
> I don't know how experienced you are with wire wheel building
> but in my experience one *NEVER* mixes used spokes from
> two different wheels!!!
>
> When a wheel is trued, balanced and then used on the road,
> spokes stretch, altering the tensile strength by the unique
> forces acting upon each spoke. If they are old, wheels it is
> likely that the steel in the spokes is crystalized to some degree
> with the crystalization again aligned with respect to the unique
> forces applied to that spoke during its lifetime.
>
> I've built dozens of motorcycle wheels. Admittedly, the safety
> issue is greater for a bike, but the physics and metalurgy are
> the same. You are risking a minimum of a bunch of broken
> spokes and possibly a bad accident as a result.
>
> My recommendation is to either by new wires, or at the very
> least buy a *complete set* of new spokes then relace and true
> your wheels with them. DON'T REUSE OLD SPOKES!
>
> Contact Buchanan for new spokes:
>
> http://www.buchananspokes.com/product.htm
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