Another day of wheel work (and so on).
A customer brought me a SRAM S30 wheel to work on.
Both front and rear wheels had quite a bit of wobble—clearly these have been ridden hard.
The front wheel was salvageable with some truing and bearing adjustment, but...
The rear wheel was beyond repair.
The rim is clearly bent, and there are spots where the spoke tension is abnormally loose.
During truing work, I'd need to loosen those already-loose spokes even further,
so I had to stop work on it.
The customer wanted to build a new rear wheel using a similar rim height,
so we decided to reuse this hub and build it as Nomu Lab Wheel No. 1.
Originally, it was a 20-hole, all-black straight spoke setup with CX-RAY Zony (Campagnolo-style) lacing.
CX-RAY straight spokes are hard to source regardless of color,
and Sapim Race (equivalent to Comp) and Leader (equivalent to Champion) straight spokes only come in silver,
plus there are length limitations on straight Race spokes in stock—the constraints were pretty tight.
But since we could manage a rebuild if we didn't insist on black spokes,
the customer agreed that silver spokes would be acceptable.
I took it all apart.
On complete wheels like Fulcrum, the depth where the spoke head sits varies depending on spoke direction,
so on the freewheel side, for example, the wheel can only be laced Italian-style.
On the non-freewheel side of this hub, the spoke head seating depth is the same,
and the lateral position of the spoke coming out of the hub flange is also the same,
so both Italian-style and reverse Italian-style lacing are possible.
Got it laced.
The freewheel side uses 2.0mm plain Sapim Leader spokes,
and the non-freewheel side uses 2.0–1.8–2.0mm butted Sapim Race spokes.
This rear hub looks a bit high-flange at first glance,
but because the spoke head seating position is on the outer circumference on the freewheel side
and on the inner circumference on the non-freewheel side,
it's actually a more pronounced high-flange than it appears visually.
A customer brought me a SRAM S30 wheel to work on.
Both front and rear wheels had quite a bit of wobble—clearly these have been ridden hard.
The front wheel was salvageable with some truing and bearing adjustment, but...
The rear wheel was beyond repair.
The rim is clearly bent, and there are spots where the spoke tension is abnormally loose.
During truing work, I'd need to loosen those already-loose spokes even further,
so I had to stop work on it.
The customer wanted to build a new rear wheel using a similar rim height,
so we decided to reuse this hub and build it as Nomu Lab Wheel No. 1.
Originally, it was a 20-hole, all-black straight spoke setup with CX-RAY Zony (Campagnolo-style) lacing.
CX-RAY straight spokes are hard to source regardless of color,
and Sapim Race (equivalent to Comp) and Leader (equivalent to Champion) straight spokes only come in silver,
plus there are length limitations on straight Race spokes in stock—the constraints were pretty tight.
But since we could manage a rebuild if we didn't insist on black spokes,
the customer agreed that silver spokes would be acceptable.
I took it all apart.
On complete wheels like Fulcrum, the depth where the spoke head sits varies depending on spoke direction,
so on the freewheel side, for example, the wheel can only be laced Italian-style.
On the non-freewheel side of this hub, the spoke head seating depth is the same,
and the lateral position of the spoke coming out of the hub flange is also the same,
so both Italian-style and reverse Italian-style lacing are possible.
Got it laced.
The freewheel side uses 2.0mm plain Sapim Leader spokes,
and the non-freewheel side uses 2.0–1.8–2.0mm butted Sapim Race spokes.
This rear hub looks a bit high-flange at first glance,
but because the spoke head seating position is on the outer circumference on the freewheel side
and on the inner circumference on the non-freewheel side,
it's actually a more pronounced high-flange than it appears visually.