Another day with wheels (and so on).
A customer brought in a CEEPO rear wheel for me to work on.
It's a 26-inch carbon tubular rim.
It has a Chenhao-made Shimano 10-speed "dedicated" freebody.
The spline teeth get taller partway down, so you can't install a 9-speed sprocket,
and the spline depth is insufficient, so you can't install an 11-speed sprocket either—
that's the kind of freebody it is.
The customer wanted this rear hub upgraded to 11-speed,
and I searched for a matching replacement, but couldn't find the same model.
On top of that, CEEPO itself is also out of stock, which the customer had already confirmed.
So we decided to rebuild the wheel with a different rear hub.
Got it built.
Evo Lite Hub, 24-hole, semi-comp three-cross lacing.
I'll do the truing afterward.
The rim has internal nipples, but when I tension it the same way as the nomulabo wheel #2 rim,
there's a real risk the rim holes could tear and the spoke could slip through, so I was pretty nervous tensioning it.
Despite that worry, the rim hole walls are actually quite thick.
I made a mistake calculating the spoke correction value and had to undo the initial build once.
The previous all CX-RAY 40-hole three-cross lacing had pretty slack tension—
whether that was original or developed over time, I can't say—
but I can guarantee this rebuild is definitely tighter than before.
A customer brought in a CEEPO rear wheel for me to work on.
It's a 26-inch carbon tubular rim.
It has a Chenhao-made Shimano 10-speed "dedicated" freebody.
The spline teeth get taller partway down, so you can't install a 9-speed sprocket,
and the spline depth is insufficient, so you can't install an 11-speed sprocket either—
that's the kind of freebody it is.
The customer wanted this rear hub upgraded to 11-speed,
and I searched for a matching replacement, but couldn't find the same model.
On top of that, CEEPO itself is also out of stock, which the customer had already confirmed.
So we decided to rebuild the wheel with a different rear hub.
Got it built.
Evo Lite Hub, 24-hole, semi-comp three-cross lacing.
I'll do the truing afterward.
The rim has internal nipples, but when I tension it the same way as the nomulabo wheel #2 rim,
there's a real risk the rim holes could tear and the spoke could slip through, so I was pretty nervous tensioning it.
Despite that worry, the rim hole walls are actually quite thick.
I made a mistake calculating the spoke correction value and had to undo the initial build once.
The previous all CX-RAY 40-hole three-cross lacing had pretty slack tension—
whether that was original or developed over time, I can't say—
but I can guarantee this rebuild is definitely tighter than before.