Another wheel day (and so on).
A customer dropped off the WO wheelset from an ENVE 2.2.
I'll check the front wheel later, but they want the rear wheel rebuilt.
ENVE carbon hub body, rear hub alternating flange 24H
All black CX-RAY, left-right 2-cross...
Reverse Italian lacing.
The rim is shifted to the left.
The spokes are under good tension,
so I can't tighten them much more.
The customer's three requests are: no bracing wires, as tight as possible,
and to change from reverse Italian lacing to Italian lacing.
I carefully loosened the nipples on 16 spots by turning clockwise,
and got the 8 completely untouched nipples out of the rim
to check the spoke length
Non-drive side
Drive side
Non-drive side
Drive side
There's some variation, but the non-drive side spokes are on the longer side.
If I replace the drive side spokes with heavier-weight ones
and incorporate a different diameter lacing on left and right,
the non-drive side spokes I'm reusing will be tightened more than this,
so I need to trim them a bit.
I disassembled the wheel.
As I've mentioned before several times,
in tangent lacing there are differences in neck deformation
between leading and trailing spokes.
↑Leading spoke deformation
The original leading spokes before rebuilding should remain leading after rebuilding,
and the original trailing spokes before rebuilding should remain trailing after,
so
I removed only the trailing spokes first.
I trimmed the original trailing spokes slightly,
and swapped them with the original leading spokes.
I trimmed the original leading spokes,
and threaded them here as leading spokes.
This way, I'm converting from reverse Italian lacing to Italian lacing
while reusing the leading and trailing spokes as-is.
The wheel is built.
Black half-Campagnolo (semi-Campy) left-right 2-cross...
Italian lacing, no bracing wires.
Of course, I've trued the wheel center.
Regarding the wheel's lacing pattern, where it was originally a 4-cross,
even if I changed it to a 6-cross,
the extreme alternating flange means the wheel's characteristics don't change much,
and having to prepare somewhat longer (that is, new) spokes for this seemed wasteful,
so I didn't change the lacing pattern.
Oh, right—since I completely disassembled the wheel,
this definitely meets the "another wheel day (and so on)" criteria,
but never mind that. There was a moment when I had just the rim by itself,
so naturally I measured its weight.
But I'm not telling you!
↑Man, this guy's got a bad attitude
Sorry for the wait!
Please take a look at this image!
↑Stop that!
A customer dropped off the WO wheelset from an ENVE 2.2.
I'll check the front wheel later, but they want the rear wheel rebuilt.
ENVE carbon hub body, rear hub alternating flange 24H
All black CX-RAY, left-right 2-cross...
Reverse Italian lacing.
The rim is shifted to the left.
The spokes are under good tension,
so I can't tighten them much more.
The customer's three requests are: no bracing wires, as tight as possible,
and to change from reverse Italian lacing to Italian lacing.
I carefully loosened the nipples on 16 spots by turning clockwise,
and got the 8 completely untouched nipples out of the rim
to check the spoke length
Non-drive side
Drive side
Non-drive side
Drive side
There's some variation, but the non-drive side spokes are on the longer side.
If I replace the drive side spokes with heavier-weight ones
and incorporate a different diameter lacing on left and right,
the non-drive side spokes I'm reusing will be tightened more than this,
so I need to trim them a bit.
I disassembled the wheel.
As I've mentioned before several times,
in tangent lacing there are differences in neck deformation
between leading and trailing spokes.
↑Leading spoke deformation
The original leading spokes before rebuilding should remain leading after rebuilding,
and the original trailing spokes before rebuilding should remain trailing after,
so
I removed only the trailing spokes first.
I trimmed the original trailing spokes slightly,
and swapped them with the original leading spokes.
I trimmed the original leading spokes,
and threaded them here as leading spokes.
This way, I'm converting from reverse Italian lacing to Italian lacing
while reusing the leading and trailing spokes as-is.
The wheel is built.
Black half-Campagnolo (semi-Campy) left-right 2-cross...
Italian lacing, no bracing wires.
Of course, I've trued the wheel center.
Regarding the wheel's lacing pattern, where it was originally a 4-cross,
even if I changed it to a 6-cross,
the extreme alternating flange means the wheel's characteristics don't change much,
and having to prepare somewhat longer (that is, new) spokes for this seemed wasteful,
so I didn't change the lacing pattern.
Oh, right—since I completely disassembled the wheel,
this definitely meets the "another wheel day (and so on)" criteria,
but never mind that. There was a moment when I had just the rim by itself,
so naturally I measured its weight.
But I'm not telling you!
↑Man, this guy's got a bad attitude
Sorry for the wait!
Please take a look at this image!
↑Stop that!