A customer left me a ZIPP 101 wheel for service.
It's ZIPP's only full aluminum rim model.
Apparently it was built by Wheelbuilder.com,
but despite the meticulous true job on both radial and lateral runout,
the center was off by an unbelievable amount.
I fixed that, which is fine,
but the customer also wants me to solder lace the non-drive side of the rear wheel.
Ugh.
I mean, what bothers me is,
it's JIS laced.
On the drive side, JIS lacing is the same as Italian lacing.
The non-drive side is mirrored opposite to Italian lacing,
but the spoke wrapping and knotting also have to be reversed.
It feels as awkward as writing with your non-dominant hand,
so soldering the laces on the non-drive side of JIS lacing takes way longer than Italian lacing.
Done.
Disc brake rear hubs are JIS laced,
so if disc brakes ever become widespread on road bikes,
I might get more opportunities to build hand-laced JIS wheels.
So it's good to practice.
The hubs are White Industries T11 on both front and rear.
Being high-low flange, they have less spoke tension difference
between left and right than equal-flange hubs... actually, they don't.
It might even be larger.
This hub has pretty tight axle cup clearance.
↑There's a small gap from the rear of the freebody to the right flange.
The manufacturer specs say the right flange width is 18mm,
but my actual measurement is more like 17.5mm.
Even at 19mm it feels tight, so at 17mm, you can't expect
the high-low flange to correct tension differences.
The hub bearing feels incredibly smooth and buttery.
The rear hub's White logo is oriented so it reads correctly
when viewed from the direction of travel.
Following the rule that "the hole for the hub's cone wrench
should be on the left side in the direction of travel,"
older White hubs had an upside-down logo, but
the T11 front hub changed to show the logo reading correctly.
The 101 wheel isn't ZIPP's first full aluminum rim model.
Based on the rim, it looks like a ZIPP version of SRAM's S30 wheel.
The rim profile follows ZIPP's carbon rims,
with a taper toward the brake zone.
Rims with the opposite taper, widening toward the outer edge, were
commonly seen in the past,
but aluminum rims that taper narrower toward the outer edge are extremely rare.
When brake shoes wear unevenly on dual-pivot brakes with different left-right tracks,
resetting and toe-in adjustments might become tedious each time,
or it might be much ado about nothing.
I have a racing buddy who has one of ZIPP's first full aluminum rim wheels,
so I went over to take photos.
I'm already way off from the 101 at this point, but bear with me.
It's a model marketed as being used by Team CSC under director Bjarne Riis.
（Though the order was reversed—they wanted to market it, so they supplied it.）
The rim profile is like a Sun Ringle Assault or Kinlin XR200,
but it has eyelets and a slight dip at the rim seam,
so it might be a DT RR series rim custom order.
The owner of this wheel builds wheels himself, so I thought
he might have hand-built it with tangent lacing,
but apparently he hasn't touched it since it came off the shelf.
After researching,
this one from 2006 was the first appearance.
Hard to believe it's been that long already.
It's ZIPP's only full aluminum rim model.
Apparently it was built by Wheelbuilder.com,
but despite the meticulous true job on both radial and lateral runout,
the center was off by an unbelievable amount.
I fixed that, which is fine,
but the customer also wants me to solder lace the non-drive side of the rear wheel.
Ugh.
I mean, what bothers me is,
it's JIS laced.
On the drive side, JIS lacing is the same as Italian lacing.
The non-drive side is mirrored opposite to Italian lacing,
but the spoke wrapping and knotting also have to be reversed.
It feels as awkward as writing with your non-dominant hand,
so soldering the laces on the non-drive side of JIS lacing takes way longer than Italian lacing.
Done.
Disc brake rear hubs are JIS laced,
so if disc brakes ever become widespread on road bikes,
I might get more opportunities to build hand-laced JIS wheels.
So it's good to practice.
The hubs are White Industries T11 on both front and rear.
Being high-low flange, they have less spoke tension difference
between left and right than equal-flange hubs... actually, they don't.
It might even be larger.
This hub has pretty tight axle cup clearance.
↑There's a small gap from the rear of the freebody to the right flange.
The manufacturer specs say the right flange width is 18mm,
but my actual measurement is more like 17.5mm.
Even at 19mm it feels tight, so at 17mm, you can't expect
the high-low flange to correct tension differences.
The hub bearing feels incredibly smooth and buttery.
The rear hub's White logo is oriented so it reads correctly
when viewed from the direction of travel.
Following the rule that "the hole for the hub's cone wrench
should be on the left side in the direction of travel,"
older White hubs had an upside-down logo, but
the T11 front hub changed to show the logo reading correctly.
The 101 wheel isn't ZIPP's first full aluminum rim model.
Based on the rim, it looks like a ZIPP version of SRAM's S30 wheel.
The rim profile follows ZIPP's carbon rims,
with a taper toward the brake zone.
Rims with the opposite taper, widening toward the outer edge, were
commonly seen in the past,
but aluminum rims that taper narrower toward the outer edge are extremely rare.
When brake shoes wear unevenly on dual-pivot brakes with different left-right tracks,
resetting and toe-in adjustments might become tedious each time,
or it might be much ado about nothing.
I have a racing buddy who has one of ZIPP's first full aluminum rim wheels,
so I went over to take photos.
I'm already way off from the 101 at this point, but bear with me.
It's a model marketed as being used by Team CSC under director Bjarne Riis.
（Though the order was reversed—they wanted to market it, so they supplied it.）
The rim profile is like a Sun Ringle Assault or Kinlin XR200,
but it has eyelets and a slight dip at the rim seam,
so it might be a DT RR series rim custom order.
The owner of this wheel builds wheels himself, so I thought
he might have hand-built it with tangent lacing,
but apparently he hasn't touched it since it came off the shelf.
After researching,
this one from 2006 was the first appearance.
Hard to believe it's been that long already.