A customer dropped off a lightweight Autobahn for me to work on.
A lightweight disc wheel.
The white one that came out before this, and the even earlier version of that, are lighter still
but the construction is flimsy — they buckle and dent,
and the tire tape loses grip, causing the rim to peel away on top.
Disc wheels are inherently delicate things, so you need to handle them carefully.
（That doesn't mean you can treat this one roughly either.）
Whether I photographed the non-drive side just to show the AUTOBAHN,
or if there's some other reason for it is unclear.
The job is to replace the freewheel body on the embedded DT hub,
but this is a tricky problem.
The spline depth on the Shimano 11-speed freewheel is naturally different.
And this snap-on right end is also for the 11-speed freewheel,
but its length is different too.
Right now, we have a Reynolds wheel with the same freewheel body here on another job
that a customer converted from 10-speed to 11-speed themselves,
and the centering is way off.
Because the "freewheel body + right end length" is longer than the 10-speed,
the over-locknut dimension changes,
and the rim shifts away from center toward the non-drive side.
I've replaced it. Now let's center this up.
A lightweight disc wheel.
The white one that came out before this, and the even earlier version of that, are lighter still
but the construction is flimsy — they buckle and dent,
and the tire tape loses grip, causing the rim to peel away on top.
Disc wheels are inherently delicate things, so you need to handle them carefully.
（That doesn't mean you can treat this one roughly either.）
Whether I photographed the non-drive side just to show the AUTOBAHN,
or if there's some other reason for it is unclear.
The job is to replace the freewheel body on the embedded DT hub,
but this is a tricky problem.
The spline depth on the Shimano 11-speed freewheel is naturally different.
And this snap-on right end is also for the 11-speed freewheel,
but its length is different too.
Right now, we have a Reynolds wheel with the same freewheel body here on another job
that a customer converted from 10-speed to 11-speed themselves,
and the centering is way off.
Because the "freewheel body + right end length" is longer than the 10-speed,
the over-locknut dimension changes,
and the rim shifts away from center toward the non-drive side.
I've replaced it. Now let's center this up.