I had a rear wheel built with a Stanz Crest MK3 (tubeless cyclocross rim) that a customer left with me
in the shop.
It was hastily assembled near the end of last year's cyclocross season,
after the full Kansai Cyclo schedule wrapped up, just to use for one or two races in Shikoku.
But two days after I handed it over, the customer hit a parking lot curb,
the rim buckled, the bead hook deformed,
and it couldn't maintain tubeless anymore.
In short: "crushed the wheel in two days and couldn't even use it for racing."
Since cyclocross season is coming up again, I decided to rebuild it.
But if I use a different rim, I'd need one with nearly identical internal diameter,
otherwise the spokes would all go to waste.
So I'm rebuilding it with the same Crest rim.
↑The buckled area
The image shows the bead hook pushed back as a last-ditch effort,
but at the moment of buckling it was dented way more severely.
I have three Crest MK3 rims in the shop right now,
but I have a feeling heavier rims have better buckling resistance,
so I'm going to deliberately pick a heavier one.
Something heavier than 370g would be ideal...
Oh no, these are all too light
For some reason I only happen to have lightweight examples.
Even the old rim before the rebuild was 374g...
Can't be helped—I'll go with the heaviest one of these
and transfer everything over.
Done.
Rarely do I do this, but I reused the aluminum nipples
except for five that I discarded.
I discarded those five because the recently-built Nomunlab Wheel #5 rear wheel,
at the customer's request, had "an Arcenciel nipple across from the valve,"
and Itotally copied borrowed that idea for this Crest customer's wheel.
So that completes the rim transfer job. Next up—
Another wheel day (and so on).
The front wheel for that Crest rear wheel—
At the time, the distributor only had one rim, so I could only build the rear wheel.
I'd lent the customer my personal Grail rim for the front.
Now I'm rebuilding that front wheel with Crest.
I built it in kind of an obnoxious way, and while it does stand out,
the customer is "someone with taste for this kind of thing,"
so strangely they loved it. Why.
Performance-wise, it's apparently lighter and faster
than the other disc brake hub front wheel they own. Huh.
Done.
The Crest and Grail have pretty different rim internal diameters,
so I couldn't transfer the rim anyway. Not that I'd try.
HB-RS770 28H black semi-Comp Roulcette reverse Italian lacing.
I'll do the truing later.
The nipples are basically silver, except for this one spot where I matched the rear wheel.
in the shop.
It was hastily assembled near the end of last year's cyclocross season,
after the full Kansai Cyclo schedule wrapped up, just to use for one or two races in Shikoku.
But two days after I handed it over, the customer hit a parking lot curb,
the rim buckled, the bead hook deformed,
and it couldn't maintain tubeless anymore.
In short: "crushed the wheel in two days and couldn't even use it for racing."
Since cyclocross season is coming up again, I decided to rebuild it.
But if I use a different rim, I'd need one with nearly identical internal diameter,
otherwise the spokes would all go to waste.
So I'm rebuilding it with the same Crest rim.
↑The buckled area
The image shows the bead hook pushed back as a last-ditch effort,
but at the moment of buckling it was dented way more severely.
I have three Crest MK3 rims in the shop right now,
but I have a feeling heavier rims have better buckling resistance,
so I'm going to deliberately pick a heavier one.
Something heavier than 370g would be ideal...
Oh no, these are all too light
For some reason I only happen to have lightweight examples.
Even the old rim before the rebuild was 374g...
Can't be helped—I'll go with the heaviest one of these
and transfer everything over.
Done.
Rarely do I do this, but I reused the aluminum nipples
except for five that I discarded.
I discarded those five because the recently-built Nomunlab Wheel #5 rear wheel,
at the customer's request, had "an Arcenciel nipple across from the valve,"
and I
So that completes the rim transfer job. Next up—
Another wheel day (and so on).
The front wheel for that Crest rear wheel—
At the time, the distributor only had one rim, so I could only build the rear wheel.
I'd lent the customer my personal Grail rim for the front.
Now I'm rebuilding that front wheel with Crest.
I built it in kind of an obnoxious way, and while it does stand out,
the customer is "someone with taste for this kind of thing,"
so strangely they loved it. Why.
Performance-wise, it's apparently lighter and faster
than the other disc brake hub front wheel they own. Huh.
Done.
The Crest and Grail have pretty different rim internal diameters,
so I couldn't transfer the rim anyway. Not that I'd try.
HB-RS770 28H black semi-Comp Roulcette reverse Italian lacing.
I'll do the truing later.
The nipples are basically silver, except for this one spot where I matched the rear wheel.