We Made Our Own Rope Spokes!

Disclaimer: Making any bike part yourself can be dangerous, wheel components especially. DON’T try this yourself! Adam’s one of the smartest people I know and there’s been a ton of work put into testing and prototyping before we got to this point. Even though we show our process this isn’t a tutorial, if you do want some rope style spokes for yourself I encourage you to buy some Berd spokes instead. I’ve had a lot of requests to try Berd “rope“ spokes since putting out my wheel build videos. I’ve certainly been interested but been put of by the costs. It turns out I’ve not been the only one interested... Adam from Tartybikes took his interest a little further though and decided to tackle the incredibly complex task of making his own rope spokes! It’s hard to convey the work he’s put into finding a strong, reliable and repeatable method of making these spokes! It’s been in the hundreds of hours but the work has paid off and he has managed to make a functioning pair of rope spoke wheels which are holding st