Another day of wheels (and so on).
A customer sent me a rim and hub.
Well, actually they were shipped to me.
US Postal.
The rim is a ZTR Iron Cross—not a Novatech Croix de Fer,
The hub is from BikeHubStore, a disc brake-equipped hub that looks like a Leaf Hub.
The shape of the axle nuts, the texture of the dust seals, the machining of the freebody,
and the finishing on the included 10-speed spacer all make it unmistakably clear
that this hub comes from the same manufacturer as the Leaf Hub.
I've received comments asking if this type of hub is a POWERWAY hub,
but POWERWAY is just one of this manufacturer's distributors.
The Leaf Hub is sourced directly from the manufacturer.
I can't say the manufacturer's name, but even when I search for it myself, nothing comes up.
They don't seem to use their own company name publicly.
I came up with the name "Leaf Hub" on my own.
People ask me about it sometimes, but it's not named after a leaf.
The rim was covered in packaging tape adhesive.
It's a pain to clean off after the wheel is built, so I removed it first.
As for how to build it and other details, I was given discretion,
but with an emphasis on affordability and performance,
I decided on what I thought was the best approach within the limits of not using CX-RAY spokes.
Built.
24-hole, all comp, reverse Italian lacing with tied and soldered spokes.
↑If you think of the disc brake mount as the freebody,
this becomes a high-low flange 4-6 Italian lacing pattern.
Flip that around and you get 6-4 reverse Italian lacing.
Since the rim's spoke tension tolerance is 95 kgf,
I tensioned it more conservatively than the Kinlin rims I usually work with.
On a high-low flange disc front hub with the steeper spoke angle on the large flange side,
when you build with different diameters and different numbers of spokes on each side,
the modest dish angle often results in a build that seems not to need lacing,
so I often skip it. But this time, since we're dealing with equal diameters and different numbers
and I couldn't get the disc brake mount side tensioned as high as I'd like,
I went ahead and did the low-tension side bracing with solder.
I didn't have time to build the rear wheel today. Sorry about that.
A customer sent me a rim and hub.
Well, actually they were shipped to me.
US Postal.
The rim is a ZTR Iron Cross—not a Novatech Croix de Fer,
The hub is from BikeHubStore, a disc brake-equipped hub that looks like a Leaf Hub.
The shape of the axle nuts, the texture of the dust seals, the machining of the freebody,
and the finishing on the included 10-speed spacer all make it unmistakably clear
that this hub comes from the same manufacturer as the Leaf Hub.
I've received comments asking if this type of hub is a POWERWAY hub,
but POWERWAY is just one of this manufacturer's distributors.
The Leaf Hub is sourced directly from the manufacturer.
I can't say the manufacturer's name, but even when I search for it myself, nothing comes up.
They don't seem to use their own company name publicly.
I came up with the name "Leaf Hub" on my own.
People ask me about it sometimes, but it's not named after a leaf.
The rim was covered in packaging tape adhesive.
It's a pain to clean off after the wheel is built, so I removed it first.
As for how to build it and other details, I was given discretion,
but with an emphasis on affordability and performance,
I decided on what I thought was the best approach within the limits of not using CX-RAY spokes.
Built.
24-hole, all comp, reverse Italian lacing with tied and soldered spokes.
↑If you think of the disc brake mount as the freebody,
this becomes a high-low flange 4-6 Italian lacing pattern.
Flip that around and you get 6-4 reverse Italian lacing.
Since the rim's spoke tension tolerance is 95 kgf,
I tensioned it more conservatively than the Kinlin rims I usually work with.
On a high-low flange disc front hub with the steeper spoke angle on the large flange side,
when you build with different diameters and different numbers of spokes on each side,
the modest dish angle often results in a build that seems not to need lacing,
so I often skip it. But this time, since we're dealing with equal diameters and different numbers
and I couldn't get the disc brake mount side tensioned as high as I'd like,
I went ahead and did the low-tension side bracing with solder.
I didn't have time to build the rear wheel today. Sorry about that.