Another wheel day (and so on).
A customer brought in a Reynolds Attack rear wheel for me to work on.
It looks brand new, but they wanted it rebuilt.
Reynolds recently updated their rim. Not only the logo design, but the inner protrusion—the SLG (Swarl Lip Generator)—has been removed.
The hub is no longer DT, but original spec, and they've dropped the radial lacing on the non-freehub side.
I didn't take photos for documentation, but a few days ago I repaired an Attack Assault rear wheel where a spoke on the non-freehub radial-laced side had loosened up so much you could wiggle it with your finger. This happens on low-tension frontals too, but radial lacing tends to develop nipple looseness.
For this rear wheel's hub, I could technically swap the freehub-side spokes for ones with more weight and cable-tie the non-freehub side—that would work without replacing the rear hub. But since the customer approved rebuilding it with a proper butted-spoke rear hub, I'll take it apart.
Since the hub is no longer DT, the spoke manufacturer has changed—maybe DT isn't required anymore. There's a stamp that reads WId∀S, but I'm not sure of the details.
Built.
Ryde (ライド) hub 24H, black semi-comp, 4-cross lacing. Cable-tying comes later.
About the Attack: the claimed weight for front and rear is 1365g, and the rim alone is 396g, but my actual measurements have come in around 375g. That's roughly the same as Nomu Lab Wheel #5, though the Attack averages about 10g lighter overall. From what I know, the Attack is the lightest WO rim for general-purpose wheels, with the XR200 coming second. Considering the XR200 costs around 4000 yen, the Attack's price-to-performance is outrageous. What's unusual about the XR200 in a good way is that "it can handle serious tension." The ALEXRIMS Crostini R3.1 and Stan's ZTR340 will flex or even crack rim holes if you try to tension them like a Nomu Lab wheel. I checked the Crostini R3.1 and found I'd written about the same issue before (→here).
The Attack rim is 29mm tall while the XR200 is 22mm, so the Attack wins on absolute weight and also has superior height-to-weight ratio. Then there's the added value of being tubeless-ready, and—though this doesn't matter to me—some people feel like the bike upgrades visually when you slap on a carbon rim. You could just say it looks cooler.
I thought about posting the actual measured weight of this Attack rim, but honestly, I continuously weigh multiple rims to track trends, unlike most people. Knowing the weight of one individual rim doesn't really mean much, so I'll skip it.
↑man why does this guy sound so full of himself, what bad vibes
（this blank space surprisingly bright）
Sorry for the wait!
Please look at this image!
↑stop that right now!
A customer brought in a Reynolds Attack rear wheel for me to work on.
It looks brand new, but they wanted it rebuilt.
Reynolds recently updated their rim. Not only the logo design, but the inner protrusion—the SLG (Swarl Lip Generator)—has been removed.
The hub is no longer DT, but original spec, and they've dropped the radial lacing on the non-freehub side.
I didn't take photos for documentation, but a few days ago I repaired an Attack Assault rear wheel where a spoke on the non-freehub radial-laced side had loosened up so much you could wiggle it with your finger. This happens on low-tension frontals too, but radial lacing tends to develop nipple looseness.
For this rear wheel's hub, I could technically swap the freehub-side spokes for ones with more weight and cable-tie the non-freehub side—that would work without replacing the rear hub. But since the customer approved rebuilding it with a proper butted-spoke rear hub, I'll take it apart.
Since the hub is no longer DT, the spoke manufacturer has changed—maybe DT isn't required anymore. There's a stamp that reads WId∀S, but I'm not sure of the details.
Built.
Ryde (ライド) hub 24H, black semi-comp, 4-cross lacing. Cable-tying comes later.
About the Attack: the claimed weight for front and rear is 1365g, and the rim alone is 396g, but my actual measurements have come in around 375g. That's roughly the same as Nomu Lab Wheel #5, though the Attack averages about 10g lighter overall. From what I know, the Attack is the lightest WO rim for general-purpose wheels, with the XR200 coming second. Considering the XR200 costs around 4000 yen, the Attack's price-to-performance is outrageous. What's unusual about the XR200 in a good way is that "it can handle serious tension." The ALEXRIMS Crostini R3.1 and Stan's ZTR340 will flex or even crack rim holes if you try to tension them like a Nomu Lab wheel. I checked the Crostini R3.1 and found I'd written about the same issue before (→here).
The Attack rim is 29mm tall while the XR200 is 22mm, so the Attack wins on absolute weight and also has superior height-to-weight ratio. Then there's the added value of being tubeless-ready, and—though this doesn't matter to me—some people feel like the bike upgrades visually when you slap on a carbon rim. You could just say it looks cooler.
I thought about posting the actual measured weight of this Attack rim, but honestly, I continuously weigh multiple rims to track trends, unlike most people. Knowing the weight of one individual rim doesn't really mean much, so I'll skip it.
↑man why does this guy sound so full of himself, what bad vibes
（this blank space surprisingly bright）
Sorry for the wait!
Please look at this image!
↑stop that right now!