Built wheels again today (and so on).
↑It's basically become my greeting at this point.
Another hub arrived from a distant customer today.
The order was for left and right DT Compe, non-freehub lacing with sticker as-is.
Since it's 24H, I built it 46-spoke using the Nomu Lab wheel #1 rim.
It has nothing to do with performance, but there's a tradition of building wheels so that when you look through the valve hole,
you can see the hub or manufacturer's name in the correct orientation.
It's the same idea as aligning the tire label with the valve position on WO tires.
The old PowerTap had the Cycle Ops marking in two places printed in the correct orientation,
but the new PowerTap has one marking in the correct orientation and one in the reverse when viewed from the freehub side.
So I built it with the marking in the correct orientation exactly as viewed from the freehub side.
One more today.
A rebuild request for a Nipponseki carbon wheel.
One spoke is missing (in the image, around the 4 o'clock position)
because I removed it to check its length.
Some spokes were bent from external impact,
which was another motivation for the rebuild.
Rebuilt it.
This rim can take a pretty solid spoke tension.
It feels good to build.
Freehub side DT Compe, non-freehub side CX-RAY lacing with 46-spoke pattern.
The precision of the eyelet spacing, the depth of the rim profile—the craftsmanship is quite meticulous.
↑It's basically become my greeting at this point.
Another hub arrived from a distant customer today.
The order was for left and right DT Compe, non-freehub lacing with sticker as-is.
Since it's 24H, I built it 46-spoke using the Nomu Lab wheel #1 rim.
It has nothing to do with performance, but there's a tradition of building wheels so that when you look through the valve hole,
you can see the hub or manufacturer's name in the correct orientation.
It's the same idea as aligning the tire label with the valve position on WO tires.
The old PowerTap had the Cycle Ops marking in two places printed in the correct orientation,
but the new PowerTap has one marking in the correct orientation and one in the reverse when viewed from the freehub side.
So I built it with the marking in the correct orientation exactly as viewed from the freehub side.
One more today.
A rebuild request for a Nipponseki carbon wheel.
One spoke is missing (in the image, around the 4 o'clock position)
because I removed it to check its length.
Some spokes were bent from external impact,
which was another motivation for the rebuild.
Rebuilt it.
This rim can take a pretty solid spoke tension.
It feels good to build.
Freehub side DT Compe, non-freehub side CX-RAY lacing with 46-spoke pattern.
The precision of the eyelet spacing, the depth of the rim profile—the craftsmanship is quite meticulous.