Built a wheel with a mysterious rim.
It's a carbon rim with an 80mm rim height. Looks pretty cool.
Since it's a customer order, I've also tensioned the tire.
Hmm, no matter how I photograph it, it looks cool.
The spokes on the drive side are DT Champion 2.0mm plain,
and on the non-drive side are Sapim CX. In terms of spoke density, left:right is
100.3%:100%, so technically they're reversed, but it's fine to consider them the same.
Even though the cross-sectional shapes differ, having the same cross-sectional area means the tension characteristics are nearly identical,
so building it felt like I was using 2.0mm plain spokes on both sides.
On the drive side, I'm aiming to reduce lateral deformation, and on the non-drive side, I'm betting on aerodynamic properties—
I'm being very deliberate about what job I want each side to do.
As for the true identity of the mysterious rim,
it's just a Tni Aero 80 with the sticker peeled off.
That's what the customer wanted.
Lately I've been getting a lot of inquiries about the Aero 80 for rear wheels,
so this is going to be the Nomu Lab Wheel No. 3.
The other rim in the image above is for that purpose.
Nomu Lab Wheel No. 3 will have the exact same specs as the one I just built,
but I'll save the details I haven't written about yet for when I build the No. 3.
It's a carbon rim with an 80mm rim height. Looks pretty cool.
Since it's a customer order, I've also tensioned the tire.
Hmm, no matter how I photograph it, it looks cool.
The spokes on the drive side are DT Champion 2.0mm plain,
and on the non-drive side are Sapim CX. In terms of spoke density, left:right is
100.3%:100%, so technically they're reversed, but it's fine to consider them the same.
Even though the cross-sectional shapes differ, having the same cross-sectional area means the tension characteristics are nearly identical,
so building it felt like I was using 2.0mm plain spokes on both sides.
On the drive side, I'm aiming to reduce lateral deformation, and on the non-drive side, I'm betting on aerodynamic properties—
I'm being very deliberate about what job I want each side to do.
As for the true identity of the mysterious rim,
it's just a Tni Aero 80 with the sticker peeled off.
That's what the customer wanted.
Lately I've been getting a lot of inquiries about the Aero 80 for rear wheels,
so this is going to be the Nomu Lab Wheel No. 3.
The other rim in the image above is for that purpose.
Nomu Lab Wheel No. 3 will have the exact same specs as the one I just built,
but I'll save the details I haven't written about yet for when I build the No. 3.