I've got all sorts of work coming in and I'm getting crushed by deadlines, but I still need to keep building the Seven Wheels project.
The customer brought in a front hub with an unusually wide flange.
No seriously, that's WAY too wide (laughs).
Out of a 100mm over-locknut dimension, about 86mm is pure flange width—
this is one seriously wild front hub. Where do you even find something like this?
The rims are Kinlin XR200s in both 20H and 24H.
So the front wheel gets built with 20H.
Built it.
Aside from the ridiculous lacing choices, I basically had free rein on the build method, but—
I couldn't resist the urge to do an inpoke radial lacing.
Yeah, this is gnarly. Depending on the fork, it might hit something.
I've already confirmed it interferes with a Pinarello ONDA fork.
Frames with thicker material near the fork ends are going to have a rough time.
If it doesn't work on the customer's bike, I'll rebuild it.
The XR200 is a low-profile rim, but excluding vintage tubular pipe rims,
it's actually on the lower end of the rim height spectrum.
That means the spoke angles get pretty steep side-to-side.
Out of every wheel I've ever built, this front has particularly steep spokes.
Lateral stiffness is a function of flange width.
You can tune it somewhat with spoke tension, but if you crank it to the rim's upper limit,
ultimately the flange width is what determines the lateral stiffness.
From that perspective, this hub might actually be the best out there.
Built the rear wheel too.
This one's a Novatech hub. Out of the three rear wheels for the Seven Wheels project,
they all want Comp spokes on the freewheel side and CX-RAY on the non-freewheel side.
The customer brought in a front hub with an unusually wide flange.
No seriously, that's WAY too wide (laughs).
Out of a 100mm over-locknut dimension, about 86mm is pure flange width—
this is one seriously wild front hub. Where do you even find something like this?
The rims are Kinlin XR200s in both 20H and 24H.
So the front wheel gets built with 20H.
Built it.
Aside from the ridiculous lacing choices, I basically had free rein on the build method, but—
I couldn't resist the urge to do an inpoke radial lacing.
Yeah, this is gnarly. Depending on the fork, it might hit something.
I've already confirmed it interferes with a Pinarello ONDA fork.
Frames with thicker material near the fork ends are going to have a rough time.
If it doesn't work on the customer's bike, I'll rebuild it.
The XR200 is a low-profile rim, but excluding vintage tubular pipe rims,
it's actually on the lower end of the rim height spectrum.
That means the spoke angles get pretty steep side-to-side.
Out of every wheel I've ever built, this front has particularly steep spokes.
Lateral stiffness is a function of flange width.
You can tune it somewhat with spoke tension, but if you crank it to the rim's upper limit,
ultimately the flange width is what determines the lateral stiffness.
From that perspective, this hub might actually be the best out there.
Built the rear wheel too.
This one's a Novatech hub. Out of the three rear wheels for the Seven Wheels project,
they all want Comp spokes on the freewheel side and CX-RAY on the non-freewheel side.