Wheels again today (and so on).

I had a Shamal Ultra with a deformed rim that a customer dropped off, and
the replacement rim arrived, so I re-built it.


↑This one's beyond repair, honestly.


Got it built.


Kasserium and R-SYS are pretty much the same, but with certain types of pre-built wheels,
if you tighten the nipples right up to just before the designed thread length,
you easily end up with "wheels that are built to a pretty advanced stage
with just a little bit of radial and lateral runout and center misalignment."
Even if you mount the wheel on a truing stand from the start,
you only need to dial in the final details with gauges at the very end.

So the people building Shamal Ultras in the factory
are likely putting together pre-built wheels much faster than I do
with the techniques they're used to.
And I'd imagine Shimano and Mavic do it even faster than that.
They basically always skip the step of finishing off that last 10% or so of perfection.