Originally Posted by
BFisher
I really like wrapping handlebars. Cloth tape, Cello, cork, ribbon...I like doing them all...
I dislike building wheels. I've done three, and they came out fine. But I found that I just don't enjoy doing it...
Haw, I am the opposite. I love wheelbuilding. I do it while I'm watching tv, it's like knitting (mindless counting and over/under/through) but with metal and at the end you don't get a scarf, you get a wheel, which is significantly more valuable especially if it has a dynamo in the middle!
Hate wrapping bars. I can always see the asymmetry and find fault in myself after I'm done.
But worst of all is bottom brackets. There is always some problem. Some stuck fixed cup that damages even my vise jaws before I resort to heating it red hot and destroying the paint, or bad threads that mysteriously are still bad even after I've chased them with my tap set or I have no idea which way it turns (French vs Swiss
) or weird 26tpi British Standard Cycle/Raleigh thing that is made of metal harder than my taps and only Phil Wood makes a non-cottered cartridge for. Or someone put in a threadless bottom bracket even though the shell is threaded ?!!
