Build Your Best Ever Wheel : How To Tension, Pre-Stress and Straighten Your Bike Wheel

Please check the chapters below for specific tips. This is the follow up to my previous video where I went in-depth on how to lace a wheel. https://youtu.be/EEv9IqMvUnQ Today I'm going to take you through the steps on how to lube, add tension, tru, pre-stress and finish a wheel. These are my tips I've picked up over the last ten years of building wheels professionally in a shop, for a popular bike brands full bikes and for riders such as Duncan Shaw and Danny MacAskill. My current wheel are over 2 years old and I've not had a spoke come lose or the need to tru them despite the abuse I give them as a Trials rider and MTBer. I'm not saying this is how you HAVE to build wheels, it's just how I like to do them. If you do it a different way then that's great, just be respectful that there is other ways. 0:00 - 1:46 Intro 1:46 - 7:12 Tools I use 7:12 - 8:39 Lubing the threads 8:39 - 10:21 Making the spokes equal 10:21 -12:50 Adding tension 12:50 - 16:47 Truing the wheel side-to-side 16:47 - 17:43 Dishing the wheel 17:43 - 20:21 Truing the wheel vertically (removing the egg) 20:21 - 23:53 Pre-stressing the wheel 23:53 - 25:33 Manipulating the spoke angles 25:33 - 26:47 Adding final tension 26:47 - 28:38 Second Truing 28:38 - 30:28 Second Stressing 30:28 - 32:29 Checking spokes for equal tension 32:29 - 33:22 Outro I hope these two video have been helpful, please let me know if so, I'd also love a tag on Instagram showing the wheel you built! HUGE thanks to Light Bicycle for these awesome rims https://www.lightbicycle.com/ And also to Industry Nine for their Hydra hubs! https://industrynine.com/ Special mention and thanks to Tartybikes for their support and supply of spokes. https://www.tartybikes.co.uk/ Thanks for watching! Patreon https://www.patreon.com/aliclarkson Instagram @aliclarkson Merch: https://aliclarkson.com/ Paypal: https://paypal.me/AliClarksonGB?locale.x=en_GB Sponsors: Inspired Bicycles https://www.inspiredbicycles.com/ Tartybikes tartybikes.com Sunlight Motorhomes https://www.sunlight.de/en/ Ride Concepts Shoes https://rideconcepts.com/ Light Bicycle Carbon Rims https://www.lightbicycle.com/ Chris King https://chrisking.com/ Industry Nine https://industrynine.com/ ODI grips https://odigrips.com/ Rimpacts Tyre Inserts https://www.rimpactmtb.com/ MIX Hydration https://mxitup.com/ HKT frame protection and mudguard https://www.hktproducts.co.uk/collections/hkt-ali-clarkson-collab #wheelbuild #wheellacing #mtb #road #bmx #bike