Continuing from last time.
A customer brought me a front wheel built with a White Industries H2 hub.
All-black Campagnolo Record Oro in JIS lacing.
If we consider the side of the hub body with the ball race adjustment hole as the nominal left side,
the hub body's logo ends up upside down. However, with JIS lacing, flipping left and right doesn't change the spoke relationship, so the performance is the same. Based on the rim label orientation, rim tape printing direction, and quick release positioning, it appears to be built with the hub body hole as the nominal right side (prioritizing the hub logo orientation).
Unlike the rear wheel, the spoke length here is just right. The tension is loose, possibly intentional for cyclocross use. That said, I don't typically build cyclocross or brevet wheels loosely. Just checking and tightening would have been fine, but
it ended up needing a complete rebuild. Since future use isn't limited to cyclocross, radial lacing was also an option.
28H black CX-RAY outpoke radial lacing. Since it's radial lacing, there's no performance-based left-right distinction, the same as before the rebuild, but
on the rear wheel, with the valve at the top and viewed from behind,
the sticker on the opposite rim seam—which also serves to hide the join—is applied so it reads correctly in normal orientation. So
I built the front wheel the same way—with the hub body hole on the left side. In other words, I built it so the hub body's logo is upside down.
A customer brought me a front wheel built with a White Industries H2 hub.
All-black Campagnolo Record Oro in JIS lacing.
If we consider the side of the hub body with the ball race adjustment hole as the nominal left side,
the hub body's logo ends up upside down. However, with JIS lacing, flipping left and right doesn't change the spoke relationship, so the performance is the same. Based on the rim label orientation, rim tape printing direction, and quick release positioning, it appears to be built with the hub body hole as the nominal right side (prioritizing the hub logo orientation).
Unlike the rear wheel, the spoke length here is just right. The tension is loose, possibly intentional for cyclocross use. That said, I don't typically build cyclocross or brevet wheels loosely. Just checking and tightening would have been fine, but
it ended up needing a complete rebuild. Since future use isn't limited to cyclocross, radial lacing was also an option.
28H black CX-RAY outpoke radial lacing. Since it's radial lacing, there's no performance-based left-right distinction, the same as before the rebuild, but
on the rear wheel, with the valve at the top and viewed from behind,
the sticker on the opposite rim seam—which also serves to hide the join—is applied so it reads correctly in normal orientation. So
I built the front wheel the same way—with the hub body hole on the left side. In other words, I built it so the hub body's logo is upside down.