Another wheel build day (details omitted).
A customer brought me an EA90SL rim.
For whatever reason Easton has started selling rims individually.
It's not like they've started supplying spare rims for all their complete wheelsets.
They simply started selling the R90 tubeless-ready rim in
two different specs: one for rim brakes and one for disc brakes.
However, since the packaging says EA90SL rim,
the R90SL rim appears to be the same as the current EA90SL rim.
Front wheel is built.
The markings on the EA90SL rim read
"EASTON EASTON EASTON" but
on the R90SL rim it reads
"R90SL EASTON EASTON".
9000 hub, 24H, black CX-RAY inpoke radial lacing.
Per the customer's request, I split the nipple colors: red on one half, blue on the other.
Rear wheel is built.
9000 hub, 28H, black half-Comp four-cross lacing with cross connections.
All rear wheel nipples are black.
During wheel building, the truing gauge kept catching on spots,
so I thought the rim seam precision might be off,
but it turned out it was just catching on the wear indicator hole.
↑Looking from the outer edge, the rim seam is here, but
looking at the rim side, you can't even see the seam visually.
The manufacturing precision is extremely high.
The rim's "runout forgiveness" is also excellent,
so the wheel build itself was relatively easy.
Since the rim width is wide,
the tire size should be a minimum of 23C, with 25C being ideal.
The sticker on the outer rim says 29", but
with a 622C rim and a 25C tire like what Vittoria uses,
the diameter only ends up being around 27 inches anyway.
The spoke holes aren't hitting the hump,
but the outer-side hole runout is quite pronounced.
Generally, the outer-side hole is quite large relative to the nipple, so
even if there's runout on the inner side, when just doing a preliminary assembly
by threading it through the nipple, hole runout isn't a problem.
That said, when there's pronounced spoke hole runout on the outer side,
it's probably intended to allow truing from the outside with a special nipple.
This time I used regular nipples though.
Also, if using it as a tubeless-ready setup,
even if you could adjust from the outside,
it's likely that minor truing would be done from the inside
just to avoid peeling off the dedicated rim tape.
What? Rim weight?
Who said I'd tell you? ←Ugh, that's a bad attitude
Sorry for the wait! Please see this image!
It's the front rim!
It's the rear rim!
↑Stop it already!
A customer brought me an EA90SL rim.
For whatever reason Easton has started selling rims individually.
It's not like they've started supplying spare rims for all their complete wheelsets.
They simply started selling the R90 tubeless-ready rim in
two different specs: one for rim brakes and one for disc brakes.
However, since the packaging says EA90SL rim,
the R90SL rim appears to be the same as the current EA90SL rim.
Front wheel is built.
The markings on the EA90SL rim read
"EASTON EASTON EASTON" but
on the R90SL rim it reads
"R90SL EASTON EASTON".
9000 hub, 24H, black CX-RAY inpoke radial lacing.
Per the customer's request, I split the nipple colors: red on one half, blue on the other.
Rear wheel is built.
9000 hub, 28H, black half-Comp four-cross lacing with cross connections.
All rear wheel nipples are black.
During wheel building, the truing gauge kept catching on spots,
so I thought the rim seam precision might be off,
but it turned out it was just catching on the wear indicator hole.
↑Looking from the outer edge, the rim seam is here, but
looking at the rim side, you can't even see the seam visually.
The manufacturing precision is extremely high.
The rim's "runout forgiveness" is also excellent,
so the wheel build itself was relatively easy.
Since the rim width is wide,
the tire size should be a minimum of 23C, with 25C being ideal.
The sticker on the outer rim says 29", but
with a 622C rim and a 25C tire like what Vittoria uses,
the diameter only ends up being around 27 inches anyway.
The spoke holes aren't hitting the hump,
but the outer-side hole runout is quite pronounced.
Generally, the outer-side hole is quite large relative to the nipple, so
even if there's runout on the inner side, when just doing a preliminary assembly
by threading it through the nipple, hole runout isn't a problem.
That said, when there's pronounced spoke hole runout on the outer side,
it's probably intended to allow truing from the outside with a special nipple.
This time I used regular nipples though.
Also, if using it as a tubeless-ready setup,
even if you could adjust from the outside,
it's likely that minor truing would be done from the inside
just to avoid peeling off the dedicated rim tape.
What? Rim weight?
Who said I'd tell you? ←Ugh, that's a bad attitude
Sorry for the wait! Please see this image!
It's the front rim!
It's the rear rim!
↑Stop it already!