Another day of wheel building (and so on).
I built wheels with Iron Cross rims.
The wheel-building requests I currently have on hand
fall into categories like
"Nomu Lab Wheel #5 building hell"
"Wheels tied to frame builds"
"The impossible ones"
and others, but
this one is a wheel tied to a frame build.
I can't move forward on assembling the cyclocross bike without building this.
Front wheel is Tni disc hub II 28H black CX-RAY 64-spoke reverse Italian lacing,
Rear wheel is Tni disc hub II 28H black half-competition 64-spoke JIS lacing.
I'll do the truing later.
Per the customer's request: black spokes but silver nipples.
Hmm... now that's some quality thinking.
They might know that black anodizing creates the most friction
during nipple rotation.
Or maybe I'm reading too much into it and just accidentally
spouting off trade secrets that are borderline off-limits.
The customer's frame set has a 100mm quick-release width fork
and a 135mm quick-release width frame,
so I recommended the Shimano CX 75 hub instead—
more robust and the rear hub dimensions aren't bad—
but thinking about future upgradability, they went with a Tni hub
that can be converted to thru-axle by just swapping adapters.
I built wheels with Iron Cross rims.
The wheel-building requests I currently have on hand
fall into categories like
"Nomu Lab Wheel #5 building hell"
"Wheels tied to frame builds"
"The impossible ones"
and others, but
this one is a wheel tied to a frame build.
I can't move forward on assembling the cyclocross bike without building this.
Front wheel is Tni disc hub II 28H black CX-RAY 64-spoke reverse Italian lacing,
Rear wheel is Tni disc hub II 28H black half-competition 64-spoke JIS lacing.
I'll do the truing later.
Per the customer's request: black spokes but silver nipples.
Hmm... now that's some quality thinking.
They might know that black anodizing creates the most friction
during nipple rotation.
Or maybe I'm reading too much into it and just accidentally
spouting off trade secrets that are borderline off-limits.
The customer's frame set has a 100mm quick-release width fork
and a 135mm quick-release width frame,
so I recommended the Shimano CX 75 hub instead—
more robust and the rear hub dimensions aren't bad—
but thinking about future upgradability, they went with a Tni hub
that can be converted to thru-axle by just swapping adapters.