Another wheel day (and so on).
A customer entrusted me with EDGE or ENVE 1-45 tubular rims.
One 18H and one 24H.
Since there's no sticker, I can't tell from this image range
whether one of these is EDGE or ENVE.
The rim in the foreground has a sticker around the valve hole,
which doesn't appear on EDGE rims, so this one is definitely ENVE.
The other one also has no possibility of being EDGE based on its serial number.
Even with an ENVE rim, if it's an early-generation model
there's no sticker around the valve hole, so you can't tell just from that.
I'll write more detailed info when I do the rear wheel.
The customer also gave me stickers.
3 stickers per side of the rim, 6 for left and right,
and 12 total for front and rear rims, but there are 13.
Insurance in case something goes wrong, I guess.
Separately, there's a 20H ENVE 1-45 rim at our shop that a customer (supposedly) left here,
and I'll use its sticker placement as the reference.
This rim is an early-generation ENVE, so there's no sticker around the valve hole.
The stickers the customer gave me have white triangles at the edge of the lettering,
while on this rim they're black, so I thought they might be a different version,
but that part is clear, so when you stick it on the rim the triangles turn black,
so it's not actually a different color from the genuine one.
↑If you look closely, you can see that there was a period when the ENVE stickers were peeled off
and large square stickers were applied instead.
I put alignment tape on the reference rim to match the sticker position.
The customer (supposedly) of this rim
wanted the "beetle" (self-titled) I made before using Mavic tubeless rim tape,
so I'm giving it to them. There you go.
The customer entrusted me with aluminum nipples for the 18H and 24H rims,
but the set with 18 nipples is the later-generation type.
The set with 24 nipples has some corrosion on the surface, but I'll reuse them.
These two types of nipples are different lengths,
but both are specified to be assembled with
the side where the threads start abruptly facing outward.
But these nipples show signs of being assembled the wrong way around.
When oriented inward, the nipple rubs on the rim and turns black.
The ENVE rim's inner side is extremely thin,
so if you put the side where threads start abruptly on the inner side,
the end of the spoke's threads will quickly hit the rim.
I used to think assembling nipples backwards was the worst,
but there was an even lower level I never imagined.
↑There are also nipples being used in the correct orientation.
In other words, it wasn't that they got confused about which end was up—
it's that "they simply didn't care about nipple orientation at all."
That's new.
Built it.
Like the included nipples, the 18H rim with the sticker around the valve hole
is the later-generation type.
Built it as an 18H Evolite hub with CX-RAY outpoke radial spokes.
A customer entrusted me with EDGE or ENVE 1-45 tubular rims.
One 18H and one 24H.
Since there's no sticker, I can't tell from this image range
whether one of these is EDGE or ENVE.
The rim in the foreground has a sticker around the valve hole,
which doesn't appear on EDGE rims, so this one is definitely ENVE.
The other one also has no possibility of being EDGE based on its serial number.
Even with an ENVE rim, if it's an early-generation model
there's no sticker around the valve hole, so you can't tell just from that.
I'll write more detailed info when I do the rear wheel.
The customer also gave me stickers.
3 stickers per side of the rim, 6 for left and right,
and 12 total for front and rear rims, but there are 13.
Insurance in case something goes wrong, I guess.
Separately, there's a 20H ENVE 1-45 rim at our shop that a customer (supposedly) left here,
and I'll use its sticker placement as the reference.
This rim is an early-generation ENVE, so there's no sticker around the valve hole.
The stickers the customer gave me have white triangles at the edge of the lettering,
while on this rim they're black, so I thought they might be a different version,
but that part is clear, so when you stick it on the rim the triangles turn black,
so it's not actually a different color from the genuine one.
↑If you look closely, you can see that there was a period when the ENVE stickers were peeled off
and large square stickers were applied instead.
I put alignment tape on the reference rim to match the sticker position.
The customer (supposedly) of this rim
wanted the "beetle" (self-titled) I made before using Mavic tubeless rim tape,
so I'm giving it to them. There you go.
The customer entrusted me with aluminum nipples for the 18H and 24H rims,
but the set with 18 nipples is the later-generation type.
The set with 24 nipples has some corrosion on the surface, but I'll reuse them.
These two types of nipples are different lengths,
but both are specified to be assembled with
the side where the threads start abruptly facing outward.
But these nipples show signs of being assembled the wrong way around.
When oriented inward, the nipple rubs on the rim and turns black.
The ENVE rim's inner side is extremely thin,
so if you put the side where threads start abruptly on the inner side,
the end of the spoke's threads will quickly hit the rim.
I used to think assembling nipples backwards was the worst,
but there was an even lower level I never imagined.
↑There are also nipples being used in the correct orientation.
In other words, it wasn't that they got confused about which end was up—
it's that "they simply didn't care about nipple orientation at all."
That's new.
Built it.
Like the included nipples, the 18H rim with the sticker around the valve hole
is the later-generation type.
Built it as an 18H Evolite hub with CX-RAY outpoke radial spokes.