A customer left me a Tni Dragon 50 tubular rear wheel to work on.
The Tni sticker has been removed and replaced with one featuring a team name,
but since the customer said it's okay to show it here, I'll post it as-is.
By the way, I don't post every wheel I build here,
but today I'm also building one wheel that I can't show on this blog.
All CX-RAY straight 40-spoke equivalent
This is a lacing pattern with no weave on the final crossing on the freewheel side.
Actually, this is a wheel I inspected previously,
but since it was experiencing brake rub even when seated,
I ended up rebuilding it.
I've already attempted the maximum corrective measure under these conditions—
blocking off the freewheel-side tension and centering it.
Unrelated to this, but regarding the Zipp 303 I rebuilt the other day (→here),
I heard when the customer came to pick it up that it was experiencing brake rub
whenever they applied just a little effort, even from a state where the rear brake pad width
wasn't narrowed at all and the cable was fixed.
This is another one of those wasteful-rim, idiotic-design wheels
like Reynolds, Zipp, and Easton.
All built.
Evolight hub 24H black semi-comp, 46-spoke lacing with bridging
At the customer's request, I used gold aluminum nipples.
It's no coincidence that the brake zone treatment looks like Reynolds—
this rim is from the same "HZ whatever" family as Reynolds, Racing Zero Carbon,
and Nomu Lab Wheel No. 6.
It's a shame that the wheel quality isn't better given the quality of the materials.
This rim isn't exactly a no-name version of Reynolds' FortySix (a 46mm-deep rim as the name suggests),
but rather seems to be a custom order for this model—
a nominally 50mm-deep rim that measures 49.5mm deep in practice.
The Tni sticker has been removed and replaced with one featuring a team name,
but since the customer said it's okay to show it here, I'll post it as-is.
By the way, I don't post every wheel I build here,
but today I'm also building one wheel that I can't show on this blog.
All CX-RAY straight 40-spoke equivalent
This is a lacing pattern with no weave on the final crossing on the freewheel side.
Actually, this is a wheel I inspected previously,
but since it was experiencing brake rub even when seated,
I ended up rebuilding it.
I've already attempted the maximum corrective measure under these conditions—
blocking off the freewheel-side tension and centering it.
Unrelated to this, but regarding the Zipp 303 I rebuilt the other day (→here),
I heard when the customer came to pick it up that it was experiencing brake rub
whenever they applied just a little effort, even from a state where the rear brake pad width
wasn't narrowed at all and the cable was fixed.
This is another one of those wasteful-rim, idiotic-design wheels
like Reynolds, Zipp, and Easton.
All built.
Evolight hub 24H black semi-comp, 46-spoke lacing with bridging
At the customer's request, I used gold aluminum nipples.
It's no coincidence that the brake zone treatment looks like Reynolds—
this rim is from the same "HZ whatever" family as Reynolds, Racing Zero Carbon,
and Nomu Lab Wheel No. 6.
It's a shame that the wheel quality isn't better given the quality of the materials.
This rim isn't exactly a no-name version of Reynolds' FortySix (a 46mm-deep rim as the name suggests),
but rather seems to be a custom order for this model—
a nominally 50mm-deep rim that measures 49.5mm deep in practice.