I have a bike to rebuild... My Beloved daily driver e-bike blew out it's back tire, which destroyed the wheel rim. I initially tried dismantling the wheel and replacing the rim with one from a wheel with a dead hub motor.
That idea turned out to be a non-starter. Although theoretically I could've undone all the spokes and swapped it across, it turned out in practice to be impossible. The wheel is double wall structure, and the access holes to the screws holding the spokes in are only just bigger than the screw heads. So.. unless there's some special tool I don't know of for this job, it's not doable. I struggled with it for days before giving up.
Thus.. Beloved has ordered a new wheel.. which is £175 we didn't want to spend, but unavoidable. Her back-up bike is ok for short term use, but it's not great.
So, once the new wheel gets here, I have that to rebuild. Which honestly, I'm not looking forward to. Bikes are god-awful kludges, with system parts specifically designed so you can only work on them with specialised tools that are sold at breath-takingly steep mark-ups and terrible ergonomics. I inevitably end up covered in grease and bleeding after scraping my knuckles on sharp bits of metal in the way.
One of these days, I shall sit down and redesign myself a bike from the ground up, and build it right.
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I have a bike to rebuild... My Beloved daily driver e-bike blew out it's back tire, which destroyed the wheel rim. I initially tried dismantling the wheel and replacing the rim with one from a wheel with a dead hub motor.
That idea turned out to be a non-starter. Although theoretically I could've undone all the spokes and swapped it across, it turned out in practice to be impossible. The wheel is double wall structure, and the access holes to the screws holding the spokes in are only just bigger than the screw heads. So.. unless there's some special tool I don't know of for this job, it's not doable. I struggled with it for days before giving up.
Thus.. Beloved has ordered a new wheel.. which is £175 we didn't want to spend, but unavoidable. Her back-up bike is ok for short term use, but it's not great.
So, once the new wheel gets here, I have that to rebuild. Which honestly, I'm not looking forward to. Bikes are god-awful kludges, with system parts specifically designed so you can only work on them with specialised tools that are sold at breath-takingly steep mark-ups and terrible ergonomics. I inevitably end up covered in grease and bleeding after scraping my knuckles on sharp bits of metal in the way.
One of these days, I shall sit down and redesign myself a bike from the ground up, and build it right.