{"id":2436,"date":"2015-09-04T18:12:34","date_gmt":"2015-09-04T09:12:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joewein.net\/blog\/?p=2436"},"modified":"2015-09-04T18:12:34","modified_gmt":"2015-09-04T09:12:34","slug":"disc-brake-wheel-build-for-my-bike-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joewein.net\/blog\/2015\/09\/04\/disc-brake-wheel-build-for-my-bike-friday\/","title":{"rendered":"Disc brake wheel build for my Bike Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the new fork with disc brake tabs for my Bike Friday Pocket Rocket due to arrive at Tokyo Bike Friday dealer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bikefriday.com\/dealers\/bike_friday_dealers\/ehicle-_tokyo\">ehicle<\/a> very soon, I had Tim at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gsastuto.com\/\">GS Astuto<\/a> build a new wheel for it. The rim is the same type (Alexrims DA22) that came with my bike originally, also in silver and 32H. The spokes are WheelSmith SS in a 3X lacing.<\/p>\n<p>I am using the Shutter Precision PL-8 centerlock dynamo hub (silver, 32H) instead of the Shimano DH-3N80 (rim brake version) that I used before. The Shimano worked really well, but I couldn&#8217;t reuse it directly because it didn&#8217;t have the centerlock connector. The PL-8 is lighter and slightly more efficient. It&#8217;s been getting very good reviews. Perhaps my son will be able to reuse the Shimano hub for one of his bikes.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some pictures of the new wheel, with and without brake rotor (SM RT-81):<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-FyEwJW96hQk\/Veb04BL98_I\/AAAAAAABop4\/1lEIYiZk7CU\/s800-Ic42\/DSC_0016.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-_w-qwL_Z5bk\/Veb08Am9rBI\/AAAAAAABop4\/DJ6XRBhLJfA\/s800-Ic42\/DSC_0021.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-iq0xJ-8AaJc\/Veb09GgvrFI\/AAAAAAABop4\/A07JV6mm4no\/s800-Ic42\/DSC_0023.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-j21lmN3Gwl8\/Veb096D01_I\/AAAAAAABop4\/cHOJAN67rFo\/s800-Ic42\/DSC_0024.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-OmFpk_t1VgQ\/Veb0-d5XQ_I\/AAAAAAABop4\/v4zdCcpsxTU\/s800-Ic42\/DSC_0025.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-HF_bY_zKqCU\/Veb0_Gjj4TI\/AAAAAAABop4\/eEKc17BODs0\/s800-Ic42\/DSC_0026.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-SNWLfa5wxwE\/Veb1FZDKQDI\/AAAAAAABop4\/OgA3UQ3lXO4\/s800-Ic42\/DSC_0029.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the new fork with disc brake tabs for my Bike Friday Pocket Rocket due to arrive at Tokyo Bike Friday dealer ehicle very soon, I had Tim at GS Astuto build a new wheel for it. The rim is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/joewein.net\/blog\/2015\/09\/04\/disc-brake-wheel-build-for-my-bike-friday\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bike-friday","category-cycling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/joewein.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/joewein.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/joewein.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joewein.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joewein.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2436"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/joewein.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2437,"href":"https:\/\/joewein.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2436\/revisions\/2437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/joewein.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joewein.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joewein.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}