Another day of wheelbuilding (and so on...).
I built Nomulabo Wheel #5 using 7700 hubs.
For the front wheel, I built the HB-7700 32H with CX-RAY spokes in reverse semipull radial lacing.
The customer's preference was supposedly tangent lacing,
and they were aware that this hub
is prohibited from radial lacing.
At Shimano, radial lacing was first permitted on
the 10-speed 7700 Dura-Ace generation
front hub HB-5500 from the 5500 series,
and then on its successor model HB-5501,
and on its variant HB-5501A.
Of course, radial lacing is possible at your own risk,
and at the time, pro team mechanics
regularly built these in radial lacing,
and I myself currently use a front wheel with an HB-7700 24H
built in reverse semipull radial lacing.
Four-cross lacing would have worked too, but
since there were traces on the hub flanges
of previous semipull radial and Italian lacing,
I went with radial lacing again this time.
Heh heh, they know what they're doing
I identified the tangent lacing traces as Italian lacing because
the semipull lacing marks for each hole
are oriented in the same direction on both sides (reverse would be JIS lacing).
I built the rear wheel too.
I built the FH-7700 32H in half-competition four-cross lacing.
It turned out neater than full-competition lacing, no need for braiding,
but I'll do the braiding later.
↑There are rub marks on the hub shell from when I pulled the through-spokes,
but just to be clear, I didn't cause them.
Today, in addition to this, I also built
a front wheel for Nomulabo Wheel #5 as practice,
but I'll write about that later (earliest tomorrow).
I built Nomulabo Wheel #5 using 7700 hubs.
For the front wheel, I built the HB-7700 32H with CX-RAY spokes in reverse semipull radial lacing.
The customer's preference was supposedly tangent lacing,
and they were aware that this hub
is prohibited from radial lacing.
At Shimano, radial lacing was first permitted on
the 10-speed 7700 Dura-Ace generation
front hub HB-5500 from the 5500 series,
and then on its successor model HB-5501,
and on its variant HB-5501A.
Of course, radial lacing is possible at your own risk,
and at the time, pro team mechanics
regularly built these in radial lacing,
and I myself currently use a front wheel with an HB-7700 24H
built in reverse semipull radial lacing.
Four-cross lacing would have worked too, but
since there were traces on the hub flanges
of previous semipull radial and Italian lacing,
I went with radial lacing again this time.
I identified the tangent lacing traces as Italian lacing because
the semipull lacing marks for each hole
are oriented in the same direction on both sides (reverse would be JIS lacing).
I built the rear wheel too.
I built the FH-7700 32H in half-competition four-cross lacing.
It turned out neater than full-competition lacing, no need for braiding,
but I'll do the braiding later.
↑There are rub marks on the hub shell from when I pulled the through-spokes,
but just to be clear, I didn't cause them.
Today, in addition to this, I also built
a front wheel for Nomulabo Wheel #5 as practice,
but I'll write about that later (earliest tomorrow).