Before the wheel work again (et cetera).
Help me, samurai. → Saved!
When I called, they happened to have stock and sent it right away.
During the call they were complaining like "Whoa, this guy already posted it on the blog! And it's got 24 claps on it too! (※)"
but they still took care of it anyway. Thanks.
Since the GNOLO was broken, I agonized right up to the end about whether to title the post
"GNOLO absent," but I'm glad I thought better of it.
※At the time of the call. Now that I check, it's at 70 claps
The sizes are totally different though
Without GNOLO
With GNOLO
Done.
Wheel work again (et cetera).
The front wheel of the ZIPP 303, whose rear wheel I rebuilt the other day, is also getting rebuilt.
Same 7900 hub as the rear, 18H CX-RAY outpoke radial laced.
Looking through the valve hole at the phase of the hub shell,
on Shimano complete wheels the "WH-○○○○" is aligned such that
the exact opposite side shows "SHIMANO" or "DURA-ACE."
Following that convention, on a hub you should do the same with HB-○○○○ or FH-○○○○
but I prefer to align it with the component groupset name instead,
so I go with DURA-ACE, ULTEGRA, SHIMANO and such.
The builder of this wheel didn't pay any attention to this detail on either wheel,
and since the rear wheel had centering issues too
I figured it was amateurish work,
but the front wheel had no centering issues and virtually no wobble—it was built properly.
This seems less like it was built by someone else and more like the work is just inconsistent.
Also, I thought they should've tensioned the spokes more without getting nervous about it.
Built.
Evolight hub 18H, black CX-RAY outpoke radial laced with gold aluminum nipples,
spoke tension is 115% compared to before the rebuild.
↑Phase
I didn't think the front wheel necessarily needed rebuilding, according to the customer,
but they wanted to match the color with the rear wheel's black spokes.
The 18H front hub has slits in the holes,
but they're unnecessary when building with CX-RAY. Oh well.
The reason is that Shimano adds "-SL" to the model number when the hub gets slit holes,
and the HB-7900 hole count options are
36H, 32H, 28H, 24H, 24H-SL, 18H-SL,
whereas on HB-9000 it's
36H, 32H, 28H, 24H, 24H-SL, 18H, 18H-SL—
so the 7900 18H front hub only comes in the slit hole version.
The reason I brought up the gold Shamal at the start is
because it's the same customer's bike as this 303.
Help me, samurai. → Saved!
When I called, they happened to have stock and sent it right away.
During the call they were complaining like "Whoa, this guy already posted it on the blog! And it's got 24 claps on it too! (※)"
but they still took care of it anyway. Thanks.
Since the GNOLO was broken, I agonized right up to the end about whether to title the post
"GNOLO absent," but I'm glad I thought better of it.
※At the time of the call. Now that I check, it's at 70 claps
The sizes are totally different though
Without GNOLO
With GNOLO
Done.
Wheel work again (et cetera).
The front wheel of the ZIPP 303, whose rear wheel I rebuilt the other day, is also getting rebuilt.
Same 7900 hub as the rear, 18H CX-RAY outpoke radial laced.
Looking through the valve hole at the phase of the hub shell,
on Shimano complete wheels the "WH-○○○○" is aligned such that
the exact opposite side shows "SHIMANO" or "DURA-ACE."
Following that convention, on a hub you should do the same with HB-○○○○ or FH-○○○○
but I prefer to align it with the component groupset name instead,
so I go with DURA-ACE, ULTEGRA, SHIMANO and such.
The builder of this wheel didn't pay any attention to this detail on either wheel,
and since the rear wheel had centering issues too
I figured it was amateurish work,
but the front wheel had no centering issues and virtually no wobble—it was built properly.
This seems less like it was built by someone else and more like the work is just inconsistent.
Also, I thought they should've tensioned the spokes more without getting nervous about it.
Built.
Evolight hub 18H, black CX-RAY outpoke radial laced with gold aluminum nipples,
spoke tension is 115% compared to before the rebuild.
↑Phase
I didn't think the front wheel necessarily needed rebuilding, according to the customer,
but they wanted to match the color with the rear wheel's black spokes.
The 18H front hub has slits in the holes,
but they're unnecessary when building with CX-RAY. Oh well.
The reason is that Shimano adds "-SL" to the model number when the hub gets slit holes,
and the HB-7900 hole count options are
36H, 32H, 28H, 24H, 24H-SL, 18H-SL,
whereas on HB-9000 it's
36H, 32H, 28H, 24H, 24H-SL, 18H, 18H-SL—
so the 7900 18H front hub only comes in the slit hole version.
The reason I brought up the gold Shamal at the start is
because it's the same customer's bike as this 303.