I received a wheel built with Stans Iron Cross from a customer.
Old logo.
The hub is CX75, so 28H is confirmed.
Built with full competition hub, reverse Italian lacing.
The customer wants to disassemble this wheel and rebuild it with the WTB Frequency i19 rim (→here).
This rim is heavier than the Iron Cross, but
it has a proper depression for tubeless tire bead seating and
a hump to retain the bead,
making tubeless tires easier to install compared to Stans rims.
The linked article mentions that the "i" in the rim's model name refers to the I-shaped reinforcement inside the rim,
but since there were no images, I took some photos to show this clearly today.
Got it built.
I'm building two wheels with the same specs.
The first one before the rebuild was loose as expected from the lacing pattern,
so I didn't particularly check it with a centering gauge,
but when I grabbed the spokes on the non-rotor side of the second wheel,
I was surprised by how evenly centered it was, so
When I checked with the centering gauge, it was way off.
Since this isn't a rim brake wheel, the misalignment might be harder to notice.
When you tighten only the low-tension side from a centered state, this is what happens.
Both are HB-CX75, 28H, semi-competition hub, reverse Italian lacing with cross-lacing.
Whether to build a disc hub front wheel with equal-length spokes or mixed-length spokes depends on the situation,
but this time I went with mixed-length.
A big reason is that this rim doesn't buzz as much as the Iron Cross during building.
Old logo.
The hub is CX75, so 28H is confirmed.
Built with full competition hub, reverse Italian lacing.
The customer wants to disassemble this wheel and rebuild it with the WTB Frequency i19 rim (→here).
This rim is heavier than the Iron Cross, but
it has a proper depression for tubeless tire bead seating and
a hump to retain the bead,
making tubeless tires easier to install compared to Stans rims.
The linked article mentions that the "i" in the rim's model name refers to the I-shaped reinforcement inside the rim,
but since there were no images, I took some photos to show this clearly today.
Got it built.
I'm building two wheels with the same specs.
The first one before the rebuild was loose as expected from the lacing pattern,
so I didn't particularly check it with a centering gauge,
but when I grabbed the spokes on the non-rotor side of the second wheel,
I was surprised by how evenly centered it was, so
When I checked with the centering gauge, it was way off.
Since this isn't a rim brake wheel, the misalignment might be harder to notice.
When you tighten only the low-tension side from a centered state, this is what happens.
Both are HB-CX75, 28H, semi-competition hub, reverse Italian lacing with cross-lacing.
Whether to build a disc hub front wheel with equal-length spokes or mixed-length spokes depends on the situation,
but this time I went with mixed-length.
A big reason is that this rim doesn't buzz as much as the Iron Cross during building.