Another day, another whee... (and so on).
A customer brought in just the rear wheel with a carbon rim.
I have no idea which manufacturer it's from.
And even if I did know, I'd never write it in the article.
The spokes are 2.0mm plain from an unknown manufacturer, laced in a 4-cross pattern.
The reason for the job is "please relace the non-drive side from radial to tangent lacing".
I'll use DT Competition spokes for the drive side, but
even if the customer said "the drive side is fine as-is,"
since it's currently laced in reverse Italian/reverse JIS configuration,
I'd have to completely disassemble it anyway.
It's laced.
Taking photos with my phone camera is getting tough,
so I'll add more once I get my digital camera working again.
I'm building this with a Leaf hub, but there's something
worth noting about the original hub, so I'll cover that later.
The following is just a quick memo for future updates.
Nothing worth reading, so feel free to skip it.
"Photo"
↑Digital camera's back! The image quality really is different!
"Photo"
↑I went with semi-competition spokes.
Since there's a matching front wheel and the customer wanted visual consistency,
they requested black spokes with black nipples, so that's what I did.
Putting thick spokes on the non-drive side tends to make things feel mushy,
so compared to the original spoke weight ratio of 100:100, the current 85:65
changes how tight the non-drive side builds up.
The total spoke length on the non-drive side has increased,
but since these spokes are lighter, it actually results in less weight overall.
"Photo"
↑I lined up the original hub and the Leaf hub side by side.
They look similar, don't they? The original hub seems to be BITEX,
and while I can't completely pin down where the Leaf hub comes from,
I've always thought it resembles BITEX.
（↑I should play dumb about this even if it seems obvious!）
"Photo"
↑Based on this part of the freebody, they appear to be the same thing.
The customer wants not just relacing but also conversion to Shimano 11-speed,
but if it's just the 11-speed conversion, the freebody might be compatible,
so we might have been able to swap it.
"Photo"
↑Ah, I see—so that's the rim.
No wonder the feel when building was the same as wheels from that
high-quality wheel manufacturer. That explains it.
Updates from here on!
↑Digital camera's back! The image quality really is different!
↑I went with semi-competition spokes.
Since there's a matching front wheel and the customer wanted visual consistency,
they requested black spokes with black nipples, so that's what I did.
Putting thick spokes on the non-drive side tends to make things feel mushy,
so compared to the original spoke weight ratio of 100:100, the current 85:65
changes how tight the non-drive side builds up.
The total spoke length on the non-drive side has increased,
but since these spokes are lighter, it actually results in less weight overall.
↑I lined up the original hub and the Leaf hub side by side.
They look similar, don't they? The original hub seems to be BITEX,
and while I can't completely pin down where the Leaf hub comes from,
I've always thought it resembles BITEX.
↑Based on this part of the freebody, they appear to be the same thing.
The customer wants not just relacing but also conversion to Shimano 11-speed,
but if it's just the 11-speed conversion, the freebody might be compatible,
so we might have been able to swap it.
↑Ah, I see—this rim.
No wonder the feel when building was the same as wheels from that
high-quality wheel manufacturer. That explains it.
A customer brought in just the rear wheel with a carbon rim.
I have no idea which manufacturer it's from.
And even if I did know, I'd never write it in the article.
The spokes are 2.0mm plain from an unknown manufacturer, laced in a 4-cross pattern.
The reason for the job is "please relace the non-drive side from radial to tangent lacing".
I'll use DT Competition spokes for the drive side, but
even if the customer said "the drive side is fine as-is,"
since it's currently laced in reverse Italian/reverse JIS configuration,
I'd have to completely disassemble it anyway.
It's laced.
Taking photos with my phone camera is getting tough,
so I'll add more once I get my digital camera working again.
I'm building this with a Leaf hub, but there's something
worth noting about the original hub, so I'll cover that later.
The following is just a quick memo for future updates.
Nothing worth reading, so feel free to skip it.
"Photo"
↑Digital camera's back! The image quality really is different!
"Photo"
↑I went with semi-competition spokes.
Since there's a matching front wheel and the customer wanted visual consistency,
they requested black spokes with black nipples, so that's what I did.
Putting thick spokes on the non-drive side tends to make things feel mushy,
so compared to the original spoke weight ratio of 100:100, the current 85:65
changes how tight the non-drive side builds up.
The total spoke length on the non-drive side has increased,
but since these spokes are lighter, it actually results in less weight overall.
"Photo"
↑I lined up the original hub and the Leaf hub side by side.
They look similar, don't they? The original hub seems to be BITEX,
and while I can't completely pin down where the Leaf hub comes from,
I've always thought it resembles BITEX.
（↑I should play dumb about this even if it seems obvious!）
"Photo"
↑Based on this part of the freebody, they appear to be the same thing.
The customer wants not just relacing but also conversion to Shimano 11-speed,
but if it's just the 11-speed conversion, the freebody might be compatible,
so we might have been able to swap it.
"Photo"
↑Ah, I see—so that's the rim.
No wonder the feel when building was the same as wheels from that
high-quality wheel manufacturer. That explains it.
Updates from here on!
↑Digital camera's back! The image quality really is different!
↑I went with semi-competition spokes.
Since there's a matching front wheel and the customer wanted visual consistency,
they requested black spokes with black nipples, so that's what I did.
Putting thick spokes on the non-drive side tends to make things feel mushy,
so compared to the original spoke weight ratio of 100:100, the current 85:65
changes how tight the non-drive side builds up.
The total spoke length on the non-drive side has increased,
but since these spokes are lighter, it actually results in less weight overall.
↑I lined up the original hub and the Leaf hub side by side.
They look similar, don't they? The original hub seems to be BITEX,
and while I can't completely pin down where the Leaf hub comes from,
I've always thought it resembles BITEX.
↑Based on this part of the freebody, they appear to be the same thing.
The customer wants not just relacing but also conversion to Shimano 11-speed,
but if it's just the 11-speed conversion, the freebody might be compatible,
so we might have been able to swap it.
↑Ah, I see—this rim.
No wonder the feel when building was the same as wheels from that
high-quality wheel manufacturer. That explains it.