Another day of wheel building (and so on).
I built a wheel using the ZTR Grail, a tubeless-ready rim from Stans NoTubes.
The customer wanted a wheel with the 28H Grail rim,
so I built it with a Shimano CX75 hub (which only comes in 28H),
but that's not a compromise—I actually wanted to use this hub anyway, so it worked out perfectly.
Though honestly, if this hub came in 24H too,
it would be an extremely useful spec.
If it existed, I'm sure I would've used it many times over.
The front wheel is laced fully with competition spokes in reverse Italian pattern.
I was planning to do fully competition spokes on the rear wheel too,
but I switched to Sapim Strong on the freewheel side.
Based on how the non-freewheel side tension looks after building, that was the right call.
I'm using 46-spoke JIS lacing pattern.
No tie-ins for now, though I might add them later depending on the situation.
Personally, while the rear wheel is fine thanks to the left-right asymmetric lacing working really well,
I'd even like to tie-in the non-rotor side of the front wheel.
I was a bit unsure whether I needed to use champion or competition spokes
given the dish amount for the rotor seat on the front hub,
but I went with full competition anyway.
↑This is the final cross section of the Strong spokes on the freewheel side.
The butted section and the crossing overlap exactly,
and if the spoke tension is low, it can cause creaking noises.
In that case you'll get noise just by flexing the crossing even without riding,
but this one is definitely fine.
(In the past, the only time I actually confirmed this issue was
when the spokes were Revolution and on the non-freewheel side)
I built a wheel using the ZTR Grail, a tubeless-ready rim from Stans NoTubes.
The customer wanted a wheel with the 28H Grail rim,
so I built it with a Shimano CX75 hub (which only comes in 28H),
but that's not a compromise—I actually wanted to use this hub anyway, so it worked out perfectly.
Though honestly, if this hub came in 24H too,
it would be an extremely useful spec.
If it existed, I'm sure I would've used it many times over.
The front wheel is laced fully with competition spokes in reverse Italian pattern.
I was planning to do fully competition spokes on the rear wheel too,
but I switched to Sapim Strong on the freewheel side.
Based on how the non-freewheel side tension looks after building, that was the right call.
I'm using 46-spoke JIS lacing pattern.
No tie-ins for now, though I might add them later depending on the situation.
Personally, while the rear wheel is fine thanks to the left-right asymmetric lacing working really well,
I'd even like to tie-in the non-rotor side of the front wheel.
I was a bit unsure whether I needed to use champion or competition spokes
given the dish amount for the rotor seat on the front hub,
but I went with full competition anyway.
↑This is the final cross section of the Strong spokes on the freewheel side.
The butted section and the crossing overlap exactly,
and if the spoke tension is low, it can cause creaking noises.
In that case you'll get noise just by flexing the crossing even without riding,
but this one is definitely fine.
(In the past, the only time I actually confirmed this issue was
when the spokes were Revolution and on the non-freewheel side)