Another wheel day (and so on).
I built a wheel with a Tni AL22W disc rim.
The hub is an M3000-series Alivio disc hub.
Front wheel: HB-M3050 32H all-black championship
64-spoke reverse Italian pattern lacing.
The spokes are twisted, but don't worry about that.
Rear wheel: FH-M3050 32H
All-black championship
46-spoke JIS pattern lacing.
The spokes are twisted, but don't worry about that.
The front wheel will be installed on the bamboo frame I wrote about here the other day, which has its head tube shifted to the right.
So I intentionally offset the center. After installing the headset and fork, I put on a perfectly centered front wheel and without even needing to use string as a proper method, you could see with your own eyes that it was seriously misaligned.
Since the front wheel has no center offset, even if you flip it left-to-right, that relationship doesn't change.
After building the wheel initially, I shifted the rim until the misalignment was no longer visually discernible.
From that state, if you intentionally install the front wheel backwards, the frame's offset and the wheel's offset go in the same direction and amplify each other, so the amount of misalignment becomes seriously bad.
With intentional center offsetting, I can't definitively say there's zero runout down to the level of a single thread or a sheet of paper, but it's certainly far better than installing a perfectly centered front wheel.
I built a wheel with a Tni AL22W disc rim.
The hub is an M3000-series Alivio disc hub.
Front wheel: HB-M3050 32H all-black championship
64-spoke reverse Italian pattern lacing.
The spokes are twisted, but don't worry about that.
Rear wheel: FH-M3050 32H
All-black championship
46-spoke JIS pattern lacing.
The spokes are twisted, but don't worry about that.
The front wheel will be installed on the bamboo frame I wrote about here the other day, which has its head tube shifted to the right.
So I intentionally offset the center. After installing the headset and fork, I put on a perfectly centered front wheel and without even needing to use string as a proper method, you could see with your own eyes that it was seriously misaligned.
Since the front wheel has no center offset, even if you flip it left-to-right, that relationship doesn't change.
After building the wheel initially, I shifted the rim until the misalignment was no longer visually discernible.
From that state, if you intentionally install the front wheel backwards, the frame's offset and the wheel's offset go in the same direction and amplify each other, so the amount of misalignment becomes seriously bad.
With intentional center offsetting, I can't definitively say there's zero runout down to the level of a single thread or a sheet of paper, but it's certainly far better than installing a perfectly centered front wheel.