We have moved to www.corvallisbikecoop.com
Please see our new site at:
http://www.corvallisbikecoop.com.
The Corvallis/OSU Bike Co-operative is a friendly place in Corvallis, Oregon that serves as a convenient place for people to gather and build and maintain bicycles (and other human powered conveyances). Here you can salvage parts for an affordable price, buy an entire bike, or participate in our build a bike program where you volunteer to help build a bike for us and a bike for yourself out of salvaged parts we provide. The co-op strives to re-use components and fabrication of new parts to foster innovative transportation. We regularly hold bike classes on many topics of interest. It's also a fun place to hang out to teach and learn from other bicyclists.
Please also see our other webpage, follow us on twitter and facebook. And, if you want to find what the board oranization is up to (and especially if you want to get involved), please become a member of our google group.
Wheel Repair, Building and Truing
markv — Thu, 2009-04-16 08:56
Probably not a keen interest for most - yet it is a critical function of your bike for the wheels to be true and tight.
A broken spoke is a common enough occurence that the skill to fix it might save you a bit of cash, or an extended time off your bike. But for me, the biggest upset would be to dispose of the wheel because the time and effort (or expense) to repair it is not worth it. A symptom of our consumer society, and one I want to reduce.
It takes a skilled wheel builder about an hour to build one from scratch. So it is not overwhelming to do this. Getting a wheel true is about 10 minutes of this.