Another day in the wheel workshop (and so on).
A customer left Nomu Lab Wheel #5's rear wheel with me.
Recently while riding, the rear wheel picked up some nasty wire that was lying in the road.
The derailleur hanger snapped and got driven into the rear wheel, which caused
all the spokes on the freewheel side—the inpoke pass-throughs (the porcupine direction)—to
crack and bend badly. I handled the repair by completely replacing all seven inpokes (←28H, so that makes sense)
and truing the wheel.
I'd noticed the rim seemed warped, and there was some minor spoke tension variation—
nothing you'd see in a brand new wheel—but I figured if it held together, that'd be good enough,
so I skipped the rim replacement at the time. Turns out it really is warped after all.
So I went ahead and moved the rim over
to a new one.
Sure enough, the old rim had a slight warp to it.
I replaced not just the rim but the nipples too, everything.
The Evolite 28H hub, semi-competition 46-spoke lacing with connections remains the same as before.
The XR200 28H rim is quite rare, so please take good care of it.
It's a spoke count that Tni can't source for their AL22.
I checked Trysports' site to confirm that, and they've got AL27 and ED30 rims listed now (subtle advertising).
On the non-freewheel side, there was one CX-RAY crossing that needed replacing,
so I swapped that out and did new lacing connections on it.
A customer left Nomu Lab Wheel #5's rear wheel with me.
Recently while riding, the rear wheel picked up some nasty wire that was lying in the road.
The derailleur hanger snapped and got driven into the rear wheel, which caused
all the spokes on the freewheel side—the inpoke pass-throughs (the porcupine direction)—to
crack and bend badly. I handled the repair by completely replacing all seven inpokes (←28H, so that makes sense)
and truing the wheel.
I'd noticed the rim seemed warped, and there was some minor spoke tension variation—
nothing you'd see in a brand new wheel—but I figured if it held together, that'd be good enough,
so I skipped the rim replacement at the time. Turns out it really is warped after all.
So I went ahead and moved the rim over
to a new one.
Sure enough, the old rim had a slight warp to it.
I replaced not just the rim but the nipples too, everything.
The Evolite 28H hub, semi-competition 46-spoke lacing with connections remains the same as before.
The XR200 28H rim is quite rare, so please take good care of it.
It's a spoke count that Tni can't source for their AL22.
I checked Trysports' site to confirm that, and they've got AL27 and ED30 rims listed now (subtle advertising).
On the non-freewheel side, there was one CX-RAY crossing that needed replacing,
so I swapped that out and did new lacing connections on it.