A customer left a Kixlium wheel with me for work.
Same name and specs as the Kixlium from the other day,
but the stickers are different, probably from a different model year.
The front wheel was built really well — perfectly centered, virtually no runout.
The rear wheel has a slight center offset.
Unusually for an R-SYS system, the rim is drifted toward the freewheel side,
but I don't want to go with the option of loosening the freewheel side spokes, so
I had to remove the tra-ring temporarily.
Plus, the freewheel side spoke tension was loose, so
the center offset initially got worse, but after tensioning the freewheel side,
I centered it by tightening the non-freewheel side further.
That alone would be straightforward, but with the R-SYS system there's still an issue.
Actually, I haven't mentioned this before, but
when you press-fit the tra-ring, the wheel center shifts.
So I have to account for that amount and adjust so the wheel is centered
with the tra-ring already press-fitted in place.
Whether it's because the Kixlium 125-type rim is light, or what,
the amount of center shift caused by pressing in the tra-ring
seems larger than with conventional rims.
The image above is after the tra-ring has been press-fitted,
but it took an enormous amount of time to get to this point.
Same name and specs as the Kixlium from the other day,
but the stickers are different, probably from a different model year.
The front wheel was built really well — perfectly centered, virtually no runout.
The rear wheel has a slight center offset.
Unusually for an R-SYS system, the rim is drifted toward the freewheel side,
but I don't want to go with the option of loosening the freewheel side spokes, so
I had to remove the tra-ring temporarily.
Plus, the freewheel side spoke tension was loose, so
the center offset initially got worse, but after tensioning the freewheel side,
I centered it by tightening the non-freewheel side further.
That alone would be straightforward, but with the R-SYS system there's still an issue.
Actually, I haven't mentioned this before, but
when you press-fit the tra-ring, the wheel center shifts.
So I have to account for that amount and adjust so the wheel is centered
with the tra-ring already press-fitted in place.
Whether it's because the Kixlium 125-type rim is light, or what,
the amount of center shift caused by pressing in the tra-ring
seems larger than with conventional rims.
The image above is after the tra-ring has been press-fitted,
but it took an enormous amount of time to get to this point.