Another day of wheel... (you know the rest).
A customer brought me a wheel set with a disc hub from a Giant complete bike.
They wanted to do competitive cyclocross, but this rim was a bit too heavy,
and they wanted to use tubeless tires (ready or not),
so we decided to swap out the rims.
Both front and rear hubs are thru-axle spec with Sapim black race spokes in a 6-cross pattern.
The front wheel is 28H in reverse Italian lacing, and the rear wheel is 32H in JIS lacing.
I rebuilt them.
I used Stans NoTubes Iron Cross rims.
Actually, these are a hidden lightweight rim.
Even though disc-specific rims omit the brake zone,
there aren't many examples where they actually end up lighter.
That's because if they were MTB rims instead, buckling resistance would also be required,
making it difficult to achieve a light rim.
In Stans' classification, Grail and Iron Cross are road rims,
with stated weights of 460g and 385g respectively.
I built the front wheel with full Competé spokes in a 6-cross reverse Italian pattern.
Got the rear wheel built too.
This one is half-Competé 48-spoke JIS lacing.
I'll do the nipple wrapping later.
↑32H rear rim
↑same, 32H rear rim
Next, a separate job—I built another pair.
If I could bump this to my "another day of wheel" schedule the day after tomorrow,
I could focus on component swaps, but you can't cut corners.
I built Chris King disc hubs, 24H, CX-RAY in a 6-cross reverse Italian pattern.
This anodize is pewter color, but this particular anodize color
tends to vary somewhat, or rather isn't very consistent.
Sometimes the front and rear hubs can look drastically different in color,
but that wasn't the case this time.
Even if the color tone differs, it's just "that's the spec,"
so I appreciate your understanding on that point.
That said, these weren't sourced by us—
the customer brought them in themselves.
On the front hub, there's a rule that the bearing-adjustment mechanism is on the left side
when the logo is oriented correctly—or is there?
The Chris King logo is facing backward from the direction of travel.
It reminds me of the old Extralite hub that deliberately reversed the front hub logo,
and the White Industries H2 hub where the bearing-adjustment mechanism comes on the same side
as the rear hub (left side), which makes the logo face backward.
↑the shape of this notch
varies completely depending on the hub's anodize color,
The pewter hub can only be adjusted with pewter tools.
Actually, that's a lie.
The dedicated tool just happens to come in pewter anodize,
so I jotted this down as it occurred to me.
Chris King's proprietary tools are allfrickin' expensive, so
if this could only work on brown hubs, for example, that'd be a real mess.
Got the rear wheel built.
Same Chris King in pewter disc hub, this one 28H,
half-Competé 46-spoke JIS lacing.
I'll do the nipple wrapping later.
A customer brought me a wheel set with a disc hub from a Giant complete bike.
They wanted to do competitive cyclocross, but this rim was a bit too heavy,
and they wanted to use tubeless tires (ready or not),
so we decided to swap out the rims.
Both front and rear hubs are thru-axle spec with Sapim black race spokes in a 6-cross pattern.
The front wheel is 28H in reverse Italian lacing, and the rear wheel is 32H in JIS lacing.
I rebuilt them.
I used Stans NoTubes Iron Cross rims.
Actually, these are a hidden lightweight rim.
Even though disc-specific rims omit the brake zone,
there aren't many examples where they actually end up lighter.
That's because if they were MTB rims instead, buckling resistance would also be required,
making it difficult to achieve a light rim.
In Stans' classification, Grail and Iron Cross are road rims,
with stated weights of 460g and 385g respectively.
I built the front wheel with full Competé spokes in a 6-cross reverse Italian pattern.
Got the rear wheel built too.
This one is half-Competé 48-spoke JIS lacing.
I'll do the nipple wrapping later.
↑32H rear rim
↑same, 32H rear rim
Next, a separate job—I built another pair.
If I could bump this to my "another day of wheel" schedule the day after tomorrow,
I could focus on component swaps, but you can't cut corners.
I built Chris King disc hubs, 24H, CX-RAY in a 6-cross reverse Italian pattern.
This anodize is pewter color, but this particular anodize color
tends to vary somewhat, or rather isn't very consistent.
Sometimes the front and rear hubs can look drastically different in color,
but that wasn't the case this time.
Even if the color tone differs, it's just "that's the spec,"
so I appreciate your understanding on that point.
That said, these weren't sourced by us—
the customer brought them in themselves.
On the front hub, there's a rule that the bearing-adjustment mechanism is on the left side
when the logo is oriented correctly—or is there?
The Chris King logo is facing backward from the direction of travel.
It reminds me of the old Extralite hub that deliberately reversed the front hub logo,
and the White Industries H2 hub where the bearing-adjustment mechanism comes on the same side
as the rear hub (left side), which makes the logo face backward.
↑the shape of this notch
varies completely depending on the hub's anodize color,
The pewter hub can only be adjusted with pewter tools.
Actually, that's a lie.
The dedicated tool just happens to come in pewter anodize,
so I jotted this down as it occurred to me.
Chris King's proprietary tools are all
if this could only work on brown hubs, for example, that'd be a real mess.
Got the rear wheel built.
Same Chris King in pewter disc hub, this one 28H,
half-Competé 46-spoke JIS lacing.
I'll do the nipple wrapping later.