Cracked Bike Rim ASMR Wheel Restoration - 91 Ritchey Ultra

[@zaidarafeh7367]

Love this guy and how he “gives old things new life”.

[@oldshovel]

Thanks

[@scrappyhustler7467]

Right it's a contagious asmr I mean bike restoration channel he's the Bob Ross of the bicycle world!

[@p1010paul]

I loved how you kept it all classic by using the Sun CR18 rims.

[@chrisko6439]

If you are new to this and plan on reusing the old spokes anyway, it makes it easier if you attach the new rim to the old one with zip ties. That way you can just transfer the spokes from their old holes to the new ones without getting confused where to put them ;) Did this once when I had a broken rear rim and a spare front wheel of the same wheelset I had been given by a friend. Did an awful job though, never managed to get the wheel perfectly circular, had to use a 28mm tire instead of a 25 so I don't feel the wobble anymore. Wheel is used on the city singlespeed, where I try to use parts that didn't cost me anything, so it's fine.

[@oldshovel]

I’ve done that before but I don’t think it saves me much time over all and this way I can do a good clean of the hub and spokes, the breakdown of a wheel and rebuild only takes me about an hour but I’ve built several wheels. The method you described though does work for those not as familiar with building wheels.

[@jackiegammon2065]

I know many may have a different opinion than I do, but I never rebuild a wheel with used spokes. Quite often they are already starting to fail in the old wheel, so for me... it can be a waste of time to rebuild with old spokes and then have to start replacing them. Having wheels that are a tad too long or short, can also shorten the life of a wheel. It may cost me more, but in the long run, new spokes of the correct length save time and worry down the road.

[@Flashbk67]

You amazed me rebuilding those wheels ! You are very talented ! Keep up the great content!

[@anthonyharris483]

I just purchased a vintage Ritchey P-23 and converted it to a drop bar monstercross bike. Ritchey sure knew how to make a incredibly comfortable steel frame

[@oldshovel]

Sounds awesome

[@daledubose3032]

Awesome bike. I'm glad you're rebuilding this one properly. I just bought a new 2022 Ritchey Ultra.

[@sagehiker]

Thank you for this. Wheels have been my challenge working with 90’s MTBs. I will look at those original hubs a bit differently after watching this.

[@HeartPumper]

ASMR making its magic, calming, soothing & recharching. Love all your restorations, giving another decades of life to another great rides. Also that rollercoasting singletrack😍 ❤️🤙

[@chrisridebike8]

16:48 I broke a set of pedals identical to those during a race in 2001. Harbin Park, OH in the Kenda Ohio Off Road Series. I clipped a tree root or something and the spring loaded retention mechanism on one side broke. I kept trying to clip into the pedal and eventually realize I only had half a pedal. Lol. Your videos bring me back

[@mountainsnmoore256]

Nice! Glad to see that you got the Ritchey back on the trails. That is a cool bike. Building wheels is something that I want to learn. Honestly, I personally only know of one or two people that have done this. Most of them just trash the entire wheel, or even the entire bike. Few people in my neck of the woods spend the kind of money on a bike to warrant going to the trouble. It is easier to just go buy another wheel and in some cases even a new bike. We have probably had 15-20 bikes donated to our Bike Project that originally just had warped wheels, but then they were just tossed out in the weather, so now we are having to do complete rebuilds on them. Honestly, most of the bikes would be cheaper to replace with new, but then my students would not get the opportunity to give those old things new life!

[@aliastagami2346]

We lace/build wheels exactly the same way. I'm going to take wild guess here but are you using the method from The Art of Wheelbuilding: A Bench Reference for Neophytes, Pros & Wheelaholics by Gerd Schraner? This has been my go to wheel building text since day one.

[@nickmassey9104]

Cool video .wheel building is an art and great to see it lives on to save another bike

[@donaldfranklinjr7087]

Great turnout on your new rims old shovel

[@philipmcbride1903]

I thought this guy was going to fix the room! I thought I got to see this! Good video!

[@rcranes2227]

I was worried you were going to try to restore the rim when I saw the video title. Glad you didn't. your lacing order is completely different from mine. yours seems faster but I can only understand the one I saw on the web.

[@slideman.]

can you show some details on that threaded headset with a Quill Stem and some sort of spacer ? I would love to see the trick on that. Thanks.

[@petemoore6590]

As always another relaxing and enjoyable video. Love what you do.

[@petek1pml746]

How long start to finish on rim rebuild? Great work

[@NonLegitNation2]

alright, makes sense. You had me confused, i was like is he going to weld the rims to restore them, or use apoxy to fix them, but yeah, just respoking a new rim makes sense.

[@tar170]

Nice to work with Sun CR18 rims that are not oversized! I got one from the batch that was 602mm instead of 559mm. It's impossible to get most 1.75" width tires onto a 602mm rim with traditional Velox rim tape. The tire barely goes on without the impedence of rim tape and a tube. I had to remove 10mm from the rim's circumference and repin it to make it servicable for practical trail-side flat repairs -- like any other securely clinched tire I've used in the past 35 years. Two plastic tire levers to get the tire off, and just strong thumbs to get it on.

[@krispy-unicorn]

I wish I had the patience to lace spokes….awesome video 😎

[@joangustems358]

Rob, I have discovered that my mechanical ignorance in the process of mounting the spokes of the rim was made for me, an aerospace engineer's job. Now and thanks to your video, it doesn't seem so complex anymore. 😂😂😂

[@roberthunter5398]

I noticed the spokes seemed to be in a random pile. How did you account for the shorter spokes on the drive side?

[@driver8sk]

Oh thank goodness you're replacing the rim. I was wondering how much JB Weld it would take to fill that crack.

[@severs1966]

Was that a cassette made of UG sprockets with an HG lockring?

[@eddyg1794]

What is the tool he used that he attached to the spokes? Was it some kind of spoke tension gauge? Sorry for the newb question.

[@jendralhxr]

love the look of older rims with eyelet.

[@oldshovel]

Dido

[@nts323]

What's a good rim for a big guy I road bikes from Wal-Mart they always start warping.

[@Mikemalone7873]

Thanks for the video! Here’s to riding that Ritchey enough to crack the next rim! Is that SIR9 getting any miles though?

[@tfmaus]

interresting your method of spoking the wheel

[@senorspiegel]

Nice video! Glad to see people reusing old Shimano hubs, but that wheel was out of round and I would be yelled at at the bike shop I work at haha

[@yasinhosab2090]

Well done sir. But I was expecting some kind of extraordinary repair job instead of replacement when I saw the title. Maybe I'm a bit obsessed to keep original parts during restorations😄. Anyway, another bike came back to life with your efforts. That's the most important thing 👍

[@edwar_cerrada]

Amigo como siempre, es un gran trabajo. Saludos desde Mérida Venezuela. Chao.

[@STPjoejeep]

How do you store all yor bikes? I have 6 and um garage is prettty full lol

[@cccpkingu]

You didn't put the thin shim back on the cassette?

[@backcenter2]

How is the bike regarding the comfort compared to modern bikes? The position seems very low and very streached. I got a top tier diamondback axis from 91, I'm thinking to sell it by parts. I don't see it as comfortable as my more modern bicycles, getting dirty to restore it seems like a waste of time. Also I saw that the bb requires some special old tools which I don't have 🥺

[@ProfessorGalileu]

I already said it, but if I was at the USA I would buy one of your rebuilds.

[@mx5matt]

What happened with the bike wash after you sprayed it on? Is it a "dry" wash?

[@oldshovel]

No I wiped it all off but accidentally filmed moving the camera instead of filming me scrub and clean up the bike … I didn’t notice until I was editing.

[@johnnydoe66]

Too bad you couldn't find a set of Ritchey Tires. I use to run a Ritchey Z-max and Climb-max on my '96 Gt RTS in the late 90's, they were some of my favorite 26" tires back then.

[@oldshovel]

I’m looking. 🙌

[@johnnydoe66]

@@oldshovel Good luck!

[@johndef5075]

Z- max were sweet! I had an RTS-2 also.

[@johnnydoe66]

@@johndef5075 Sweet, I loved my RTS. I started with a 1993 RTS 2 which I took to Moab in 1994. I rode it on Portal, Porcupine Rim, Gemini Bridges, and Slick Rock...it was an awesome bike in my opinion. The rear pivot tabs for the rocker link cracked, GT somehow lost my frame after deciding to repair it under warranty, and they sent me a 1996 Team Frame with the Noleen piggyback coil shock. It rode even better than my original.

[@grindeyyyyy]

I’m gonna need a new rim soon, my bike only has mount for a rear brake, and riding it every day in the uk weather for the past 2 years, it’s showing wear

[@michaelorlando3647]

What is the width on the handlebars. I know its a vintage mountain bike so the bars will be narrower.

[@oldshovel]

Originally I think it had 540mm bars, super narrow. Currently it’s running 620mm which is still narrow. Im on the lookout for Ritchey bars closer to 700 that I can fit through the stem. I bought a 670mm Ritchey riser bar for it but the bend was too much for the stem so I’m still on the hunt.

[@michaelorlando3647]

Thanks for the reply. Love that build great bike. Good luck in the hunt for the 700 mm bars.

[@millhouse2011]

Is that a Uniglide cassette? 🙂

[@jeremiahpayopanin85]

Menn every bike you restore become my dream bike

[@oldshovel]

Awesome

[@johnsonjay60]

😆 the only asmr I care to hear lol 🤘

[@graememorrison333]

Good to see an old Deore/RX100 hub being given some love. They're bombproof IME so it's always shame to chuck them.

[@oldshovel]

Totally bombproof 🙌

[@kona0197]

I see there is still some up and down wobble in the front rim while you were truing it. I hope that was corrected. :)

[@d._r._jones]

The ERD was the same?

[@thomassciaroni6942]

Not the Bob Ross but the Morgan Freeman of mountain bike!!

[@mariits]

can this. rack fix with epoxide ?

[@BICIeCOMPUTERconGabriele]

What a beautiful place wehre you live! Where it is? Northern USA I presume.... East or West? Hello from Italy!

[@evanswinford7165]

I take down old junk wheels. I have used a small cordless screwdriver to remove all the spokes tips. It works pretty good and is much faster.

[@type2adi]

thank u rob. im having anxiety right now thank you for the video it does really help

[@oldshovel]

🙌🙏

[@josemoure520]

I wanted to know if you could help me build my own wheels.

[@odairjosebezerra5613]

muito bom trabalho 👏👏👏👏🇧🇷

[@palangimiko]

Wild 🌹 👌🏽👍🏽

[@thomaseisen304]

Jesus I love this old hubs so much ! If it were DX , LX or XT or the later XTR they were build to last for a long time and they could be repaired so easily! Nice to see how Oldshovel build the wheels and made a tiny mistake there ...but hey we all started somewhere and made mistakes! 😂😉

[@oldshovel]

They are awesome and solid. It was an old XT hub but the logo was super faint and hard to see. As to mistakes, I make them all the time even when I know better…

[@myvicariouslife4012]

Arayas never crack

[@dennislavoie5869]

I think I would’ve just bought a complete wheel. I know I’m not skilled enough to respoke a wheel 😝

[@dennislavoie5869]

@@darthtrolleus1947 patience is great but if you don’t know what you’re doing all the patience in the world won’t do any good 😊

[@MetalRestorationBho]

I respect everyone who were involved in this , Seriously the best piece that I' ve ever seen on KZbin ,HATS OFF TO WELL ALL ! LOVE YOUR VIDEOS !!!!😌😌

[@oldshovel]

Thanks

[@oftankoftan]

15:17 I hate to say it but... you're not done truing that wheel.

[@janeblogs324]

You had me until you laced 1 side of the rim entirely, then had to bend 8 additional spokes while scratch them on the rim. No oil on the threads? Crazy

[@dercrosscountryracer1089]

Oje, so sehen durchgebremste laufräder aus. Hm, eigentlich hättest du auch gleich Hydraulische felgenbremsen verbauen können. 21 gänge sind auch nicht mehr das modernste, aber angesichts des alters vom bike nicht mehr rauszuholen. Da hab ich mit meinem 98er gary fisher taikan mehr glück. Da bin ich auf 1×11 fach gewechselt.

[@jonasjpm1989]

Legal

[@zackb-wheal6771]

who also thought for a moment he was disassembling the back wheel again....?

[@rage3363]

Красава

[@smithbrownjones]

Lol. Thought you were going to fix (ie: actually repair) the rim.....not just replace and rebuild.... 😆🤷🏼‍♂️

[@erickcardenas3699]

Yo tengo unos rines iguales, pero los míos me rompen la cámara de la bicicleta siempre en la válvula Los corrí con mucha presión y con presión regular pero aún así lo seguiré haciendo Alguien me puede ayudar 🙏 alguien sabe por qué pasa eso?? Saludos desde México

[@hadradi4216]

Yes! First guy to view this lol

[@subjektobjektpradikat7902]

in its logical beauty, this looks unattainably complex to me with massive potential for despair :-)

[@oldshovel]

It’s not hard if you take it step by step and aren’t hasty. 😁 I tend to be hasty myself sometimes.

[@dj_anabel]

Супер. а может прям мануал по спецовки колес?)

[@mountainclawoutdoors]

How to fix a rim Buy a new one, call it restored

[@lesliekirk7036]

Poor build buddy you should of overhaul the bearings when you had the hub out and I always grease the threads on spokes before putting nipples back

[@chrisoliveira2038]

Build was just fine. Hub bearings are easily serviced on built wheels. I agree there are various schools of thoughts on spoke nipple prep to balance ease of future truing without unthreading. I use Spoke Prep since I have 2 small jars that last forever.

[@oldshovel]

I’ve used a few things in the past, such as linseed oil but never grease. Grease sounds like a bad idea to me but I could be wrong, I’ve seen too many nipples unthread themselves. As to the hub rebuild, the rear was rebuilt recently and I showed and rebuilt the front.

[@tar170]

Only the drive-side on the rear wheel is worth applying some sort of spoke thread lubricant or anti-seize powder. Greasing spoke threads elsewhere just leads to loose spokes in my experience.

[@ryanwilson3126]

Way to quiet. To used to your talking on your vids. Sort of creepy. Kind of a distancing.

[@oldshovel]

Noted,just trying a different intro.

[@ryanwilson3126]

@@oldshovel content was still great as usual. Maybe some music would help.

[@michael61985]

Cheap made rims

[@YoungDoug13]

Man, that's a whole lot of work to end up still having rim brakes. Get to weldin'!

[@erickcardenas3699]

Soldar que?? Soldar el rin? Muestra un vídeo de cómo se hace...

[@possibly8180]

Not really. Any wheel builder worth his salt would be able to finish assembling and truing one under 2 hours.

[@Exgrmbl]

it's and old MTB, why would he ruin it by welding on some disc brake mounts?

[@YoungDoug13]

He's done it before and it turned out awesome, but that bike probably deserves to stay classic.

[@oldshovel]

Lol not on this one… but perhaps others 😁

[@miltono.1152]

tl;dr: Rim restoration: buys new rim

[@carmenhallman436]

Me gusta mucho tu música y tus videos cortos. 👍 uno de gisellee.monster Quiere compartir videos como el tuyop para conseguir el cariño que no tiene.