Another wheel day (and so on).
A customer dropped off a rear wheel from an Angelino.
The Angelino is a child seat bicycle made by Bridgestone.
Several spokes are broken,
but the customer wants not just to replace those, but a complete respoke.
The peculiar way the spokes are bent
is a sign of pedaling with the ring lock engaged on the rear wheel.
↑This is a component called "Kuuki Miharu-kun" (air pressure indicator),
and when red is visible on the gauge,
it's a sign that air pressure has dropped.
But even at the recommended air pressure, the red barely hides,
so I suspect very few casual users of mama-charis
maintain a state where the red doesn't show.
Unless they pay as much attention as road bike riders, that is.
Kuuki Miharu-kun is certainly a straightforward name,
but I'm in no position to comment on straightforward naming.
Done lacing.
Sapim Strong 36H, 6x JIS lacing, no bracing.
Strong spokes have a 13-gauge section below the head,
so spoke fatigue at the elbow is extremely unlikely.
For the nipples, if I go with the 3.2mm wrench size that DT and Sapim use,
future repairs might be difficult, so
I chose brass nipples with a 3.4mm wrench size.
The spokes look short,
but they're the same length as before the respoke.
Since it's a single-wall rim,
if a spoke protrudes from the nipple, it will puncture the rim tape.
This length is to prevent that.
36H JIS lacing is fine, but
I forgot to check whether it was 6-cross or 8-cross before disassembling.
Based on the length of the spoke I left uncut to measure,
I'm confident it was 6-cross, so I did 6-cross.
If it were 8-cross, the length definitely wouldn't be enough.
If I did 6-cross with 8-cross length, I'd notice it during the initial build.
On the left side of the hub, the 17mm locknut securing the roller brake
sits at the outer edge of the locknut dimension,
so I can't center the wheel until I reinstall the brake after lacing the spokes.
By the way, the image above shows the "after,"
and here's the "before".
I also polished the rim with compound.
I wiped off the compound after polishing,
but even if some remained, since the rear wheel doesn't use rim brakes,
the brakes wouldn't lose their stopping power.
A customer dropped off a rear wheel from an Angelino.
The Angelino is a child seat bicycle made by Bridgestone.
Several spokes are broken,
but the customer wants not just to replace those, but a complete respoke.
The peculiar way the spokes are bent
is a sign of pedaling with the ring lock engaged on the rear wheel.
↑This is a component called "Kuuki Miharu-kun" (air pressure indicator),
and when red is visible on the gauge,
it's a sign that air pressure has dropped.
But even at the recommended air pressure, the red barely hides,
so I suspect very few casual users of mama-charis
maintain a state where the red doesn't show.
Unless they pay as much attention as road bike riders, that is.
Kuuki Miharu-kun is certainly a straightforward name,
but I'm in no position to comment on straightforward naming.
Done lacing.
Sapim Strong 36H, 6x JIS lacing, no bracing.
Strong spokes have a 13-gauge section below the head,
so spoke fatigue at the elbow is extremely unlikely.
For the nipples, if I go with the 3.2mm wrench size that DT and Sapim use,
future repairs might be difficult, so
I chose brass nipples with a 3.4mm wrench size.
The spokes look short,
but they're the same length as before the respoke.
Since it's a single-wall rim,
if a spoke protrudes from the nipple, it will puncture the rim tape.
This length is to prevent that.
36H JIS lacing is fine, but
I forgot to check whether it was 6-cross or 8-cross before disassembling.
Based on the length of the spoke I left uncut to measure,
I'm confident it was 6-cross, so I did 6-cross.
If it were 8-cross, the length definitely wouldn't be enough.
If I did 6-cross with 8-cross length, I'd notice it during the initial build.
On the left side of the hub, the 17mm locknut securing the roller brake
sits at the outer edge of the locknut dimension,
so I can't center the wheel until I reinstall the brake after lacing the spokes.
By the way, the image above shows the "after,"
and here's the "before".
I also polished the rim with compound.
I wiped off the compound after polishing,
but even if some remained, since the rear wheel doesn't use rim brakes,
the brakes wouldn't lose their stopping power.