I received the rear wheel of Nomu Lab Wheel No. 5 from a customer.
This is the rear wheel, and both front and rear wheels are built with Shimano RS400 hubs at 28 holes.
The front wheel has a silver hub with a black rim, with alternating spoke colors.
The nipples are reversed in color compared to the spokes.
The RS400 hub body comes in silver and black,
so initially the rear wheel was built with a black hub and silver rim.
When that rim got crushed and needed replacing,
the wholesaler didn't have silver rims in stock, so I repaired it with a black rim instead.
Now we're switching it back to a silver rim.
Moving the rim along...
↑At this final crossing on the non-freewheel side, both spokes are bent.
I've trued this rear wheel before,
but the spoke deformation only became apparent now with the tension released.
Since the spokes on the freewheel side are unaffected,
it doesn't look like someone rode off with a cable lock still attached to the rear wheel.
Either a Garmin sensor got tangled up in it, or maybe it was a metal chain stay guard.
↑For reference, here's the undamaged final crossing.
Built.
↑Since I replaced the spoke, there's no lacing at just this point.
I'll do that later.
↑The bent spoke
Definitely bent.
I checked the disassembled black rim against a glass surface plate,
but surprisingly it wasn't warped.
I just noticed the other day that
this article is the 993rd post in the "Nomu Lab Wheel" category,
and we're getting close to the 1,000th post.
While sometimes a single article covers 4 to 6 wheels, typically it's 1 or 2,
and even without double-counting existing wheels like this one,
rough calculations suggest I've built somewhere over a thousand wheels for Nomu Lab.
This count doesn't include mass-produced spoked complete wheels
or re-laced wheels from other shops.
The definition of a Nomu Lab Wheel is "a wheel built using rims that we sourced."
The hub might be customer-supplied.
The difference between a wheel built with a customer-supplied XR200 rim
and Nomu Lab Wheel No. 5 is the presence of an unwritten warranty.
The reason it's unwritten is to avoid abuse.
Oh, this time it's just a rim transfer, so
it doesn't meet the "building a whe—(rest omitted)" criteria. Ugh.
Even though what I'm doing is wheel building itself.
Who came up with this nonsensical rule anyway! ←That was me.
This is the rear wheel, and both front and rear wheels are built with Shimano RS400 hubs at 28 holes.
The front wheel has a silver hub with a black rim, with alternating spoke colors.
The nipples are reversed in color compared to the spokes.
The RS400 hub body comes in silver and black,
so initially the rear wheel was built with a black hub and silver rim.
When that rim got crushed and needed replacing,
the wholesaler didn't have silver rims in stock, so I repaired it with a black rim instead.
Now we're switching it back to a silver rim.
Moving the rim along...
↑At this final crossing on the non-freewheel side, both spokes are bent.
I've trued this rear wheel before,
but the spoke deformation only became apparent now with the tension released.
Since the spokes on the freewheel side are unaffected,
it doesn't look like someone rode off with a cable lock still attached to the rear wheel.
Either a Garmin sensor got tangled up in it, or maybe it was a metal chain stay guard.
↑For reference, here's the undamaged final crossing.
Built.
↑Since I replaced the spoke, there's no lacing at just this point.
I'll do that later.
↑The bent spoke
Definitely bent.
I checked the disassembled black rim against a glass surface plate,
but surprisingly it wasn't warped.
I just noticed the other day that
this article is the 993rd post in the "Nomu Lab Wheel" category,
and we're getting close to the 1,000th post.
While sometimes a single article covers 4 to 6 wheels, typically it's 1 or 2,
and even without double-counting existing wheels like this one,
rough calculations suggest I've built somewhere over a thousand wheels for Nomu Lab.
This count doesn't include mass-produced spoked complete wheels
or re-laced wheels from other shops.
The definition of a Nomu Lab Wheel is "a wheel built using rims that we sourced."
The hub might be customer-supplied.
The difference between a wheel built with a customer-supplied XR200 rim
and Nomu Lab Wheel No. 5 is the presence of an unwritten warranty.
The reason it's unwritten is to avoid abuse.
Oh, this time it's just a rim transfer, so
it doesn't meet the "building a whe—(rest omitted)" criteria. Ugh.
Even though what I'm doing is wheel building itself.
Who came up with this nonsensical rule anyway! ←That was me.