Another day of wheel building (details omitted).
I received a rear wheel built with an LWC 88mm high rim from a customer.
Since there's a huge sticker on it that would identify the customer if I knew them in real life,
I'm being considerate and blurring it out.
Regarding the BH TT bike image from the other day where the frame serial number is readable on the back of the frame,
someone asked in a comment whether there could be any disadvantage to the customer.
In that case, it wasn't actually a customer but rather
a customer (technically), so I didn't bother with the blurring.
Leaf hub-like hub, 24H, black CX-RAY, 4-cross lacing.
Since they wanted to avoid radial lacing on the non-drive side,
I'm doing half-competition 4x4 lacing with tie-ins.
The hub shell was covered in chain oil residue from splatter, so I cleaned it.
Then I discovered that the spoke length wouldn't work out.
The rim is too high, and even cutting from the shortest length Campagnolo stocks,
there's no thread pitch left for a #14 spoke.
When converting a spoke from 2.0–1.8–2.0mm (head to thread) to a single-butted 2.0–1.8mm by cutting,
you might think you could just cut a #15 thread into the 1.8mm section,
but the reality is that the butted section isn't exactly 1.8mm precisely.
I've done it before on non-sale builds, but... it's better not to.
I could use #14 plain spokes on the drive side—meaning semi-competition lacing—but
with 24H deep rims on a rear wheel, semi-competition lacing gets abnormally stiff,
so I won't do it unless the customer specifically requests it.
Similarly, with Nomu Lab Wheel #3's rear wheel, I often deliberately build it as 20H—technically a front rim—
for the same reason. With a 20H rear wheel, 4x4 lacing isn't possible, so
I use semi-competition rather than semi-championship lacing.
Anyway, as of today it's confirmed that building this is impossible, so
In the near future, a Nomu Lab Wheel #5 building marathon hell is coming,
and I'm about to dip my toe into it.
You can see Evo Lite hub packages in the image above, but
I built the front wheel with the Chris King hub.
R45 hub, 28H, CX-RAY, 4x4 Italian lacing.
I received a rear wheel built with an LWC 88mm high rim from a customer.
Since there's a huge sticker on it that would identify the customer if I knew them in real life,
I'm being considerate and blurring it out.
Regarding the BH TT bike image from the other day where the frame serial number is readable on the back of the frame,
someone asked in a comment whether there could be any disadvantage to the customer.
In that case, it wasn't actually a customer but rather
a customer (technically), so I didn't bother with the blurring.
Leaf hub-like hub, 24H, black CX-RAY, 4-cross lacing.
Since they wanted to avoid radial lacing on the non-drive side,
I'm doing half-competition 4x4 lacing with tie-ins.
The hub shell was covered in chain oil residue from splatter, so I cleaned it.
Then I discovered that the spoke length wouldn't work out.
The rim is too high, and even cutting from the shortest length Campagnolo stocks,
there's no thread pitch left for a #14 spoke.
When converting a spoke from 2.0–1.8–2.0mm (head to thread) to a single-butted 2.0–1.8mm by cutting,
you might think you could just cut a #15 thread into the 1.8mm section,
but the reality is that the butted section isn't exactly 1.8mm precisely.
I've done it before on non-sale builds, but... it's better not to.
I could use #14 plain spokes on the drive side—meaning semi-competition lacing—but
with 24H deep rims on a rear wheel, semi-competition lacing gets abnormally stiff,
so I won't do it unless the customer specifically requests it.
Similarly, with Nomu Lab Wheel #3's rear wheel, I often deliberately build it as 20H—technically a front rim—
for the same reason. With a 20H rear wheel, 4x4 lacing isn't possible, so
I use semi-competition rather than semi-championship lacing.
Anyway, as of today it's confirmed that building this is impossible, so
In the near future, a Nomu Lab Wheel #5 building marathon hell is coming,
and I'm about to dip my toe into it.
You can see Evo Lite hub packages in the image above, but
I built the front wheel with the Chris King hub.
R45 hub, 28H, CX-RAY, 4x4 Italian lacing.