Today it's wheels again (and so on).
I received EA90SL rims from a customer.
For whatever reason, Easton has started selling rims individually.
It's not like they've started supplying the rims from all their complete wheelsets
as spare parts.
They've simply started selling the R90, a tubeless-ready rim,
in two specifications—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.
Got the front wheel built.
The text on the EA90SL rim reads
"EASTON EASTON EASTON"
but on the R90SL rim it says
"R90SL EASTON EASTON".
9000 hub, 24H, black CX-RAY spokes, radial lacing.
Per the customer's request, I made the nipples half red and half blue.
Got the rear wheel built too.
9000 hub, 28H, black half-Comp 4-cross lacing with cross-ties.
All the rear wheel nipples are black.
While building the wheels, the truing gauge kept catching on something,
so I thought the rim seam precision might be poor,
but it was just catching on the wear indicator hole.
↑The rim seam seen from the outer edge is here, but
even from the rim side, the seam isn't visually apparent.
The manufacturing precision is extremely high.
And because the "degree of runout forgiveness" is also high,
the wheel building itself was relatively easy.
Because the rim width is wide,
the minimum tire size would be 23C, with the ideal being 25C.
The sticker on the outer edge says 29",
but with a typical 622C ETRTO rim fitted with a 25C tire,
the diameter comes out to only about 27 inches.
The outer hole runout is fairly large, though not reaching the hump.
Generally, the outer hole is quite large relative to the nipple, so
even if there's hole runout on the inner side,
as long as you thread the nipple through for an initial assembly,
runout isn't a problem.
Still, when there's pronounced hole runout on the outer side,
it's likely designed to allow adjustment from the outside using
a special nipple design. This build uses standard nipples though.
Also, when using it as a tubeless-ready setup,
even if you could adjust from the outside,
many people probably prefer minor truing adjustments from the inside
rather than peel off the specialized rim tape.
What? The rim weight?
Who said I'd tell you that? ←wow this guy's got an attitude
Sorry for the wait! Please take a look at this image!
It's the front rim!
It's the rear rim!
↑Stop it already!
I received EA90SL rims from a customer.
For whatever reason, Easton has started selling rims individually.
It's not like they've started supplying the rims from all their complete wheelsets
as spare parts.
They've simply started selling the R90, a tubeless-ready rim,
in two specifications—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.
Got the front wheel built.
The text on the EA90SL rim reads
"EASTON EASTON EASTON"
but on the R90SL rim it says
"R90SL EASTON EASTON".
9000 hub, 24H, black CX-RAY spokes, radial lacing.
Per the customer's request, I made the nipples half red and half blue.
Got the rear wheel built too.
9000 hub, 28H, black half-Comp 4-cross lacing with cross-ties.
All the rear wheel nipples are black.
While building the wheels, the truing gauge kept catching on something,
so I thought the rim seam precision might be poor,
but it was just catching on the wear indicator hole.
↑The rim seam seen from the outer edge is here, but
even from the rim side, the seam isn't visually apparent.
The manufacturing precision is extremely high.
And because the "degree of runout forgiveness" is also high,
the wheel building itself was relatively easy.
Because the rim width is wide,
the minimum tire size would be 23C, with the ideal being 25C.
The sticker on the outer edge says 29",
but with a typical 622C ETRTO rim fitted with a 25C tire,
the diameter comes out to only about 27 inches.
The outer hole runout is fairly large, though not reaching the hump.
Generally, the outer hole is quite large relative to the nipple, so
even if there's hole runout on the inner side,
as long as you thread the nipple through for an initial assembly,
runout isn't a problem.
Still, when there's pronounced hole runout on the outer side,
it's likely designed to allow adjustment from the outside using
a special nipple design. This build uses standard nipples though.
Also, when using it as a tubeless-ready setup,
even if you could adjust from the outside,
many people probably prefer minor truing adjustments from the inside
rather than peel off the specialized rim tape.
What? The rim weight?
Who said I'd tell you that? ←wow this guy's got an attitude
Sorry for the wait! Please take a look at this image!
It's the front rim!
It's the rear rim!
↑Stop it already!