Another day of wheels (and so on).
A customer brought me a Reynolds Attack rear wheel for service.
The nipples on the non-drive side were loosening.
Actually, that wouldn't be particularly unusual in itself
(Reynolds nipple loosening is really common),
but this rear wheel is something I had previously completely disassembled and rebuilt myself.
I wonder if the problem was using the original nipples again, even though I had cleaned them...
So the plan is to rebuild it using a method that's less prone to loosening
and replace all the nipples.
Non-drive side radial lacing and radial lacing on front wheels with 28 holes or more
tend to develop a phenomenon where a single spoke becomes looser compared to the others.
I have never voluntarily put this sticker on a wheel myself.
Disassembled it.
Actually, that other one would have been better. ← I'll write about that in the next post
Built it up.
Evolite hub 24H black semi-competition 4-cross lacing with cross-over connection.
Finally, finally got all the images for the article together!
The rest of this story is a separate issue, so I'll cover it in the next post...
A customer brought me a Reynolds Attack rear wheel for service.
The nipples on the non-drive side were loosening.
Actually, that wouldn't be particularly unusual in itself
(Reynolds nipple loosening is really common),
but this rear wheel is something I had previously completely disassembled and rebuilt myself.
I wonder if the problem was using the original nipples again, even though I had cleaned them...
So the plan is to rebuild it using a method that's less prone to loosening
and replace all the nipples.
Non-drive side radial lacing and radial lacing on front wheels with 28 holes or more
tend to develop a phenomenon where a single spoke becomes looser compared to the others.
I have never voluntarily put this sticker on a wheel myself.
Disassembled it.
Actually, that other one would have been better. ← I'll write about that in the next post
Built it up.
Evolite hub 24H black semi-competition 4-cross lacing with cross-over connection.
Finally, finally got all the images for the article together!
The rest of this story is a separate issue, so I'll cover it in the next post...