True. Today is also a wheel day (and so on).
A customer brought me a 29-inch wheel built with a Stanzi Crest rim.
The current Crest model is called Crest MK3,
but the Crest on this wheel is slightly narrower than the MK3,
and where the MK3 has a flat rim profile,
this Crest has a triangular roof shape, close to an Iron Cross profile.
HB-M9010 32H full race (full competition equivalent) 2-cross reverse Italian lacing with
turquoise aluminum nipples.
Looking at it from above, I'll admit, there's virtually no radial or lateral runout, centering is spot on,
and the tension on the rotor mount side is just before the limit,
so the original builder had built this wheel
as perfectly as possible under these conditions with these spokes and lacing pattern.
I'm confident I could do even better with a semi-comp 3-cross lacing with bridging,
but disassembling a wheel that's already properly built
feels unfair to the original builder, so
I asked the customer whether they'd feel awkward going back to the neighborhood shop
that built this wheel,
and it turned out the person who built this wheel there
is no longer there (they quit),
so that wouldn't be an issue.
All built.
Semi-comp 3-cross reverse Italian lacing with bridging
and silver aluminum nipples.
A customer brought me a 29-inch wheel built with a Stanzi Crest rim.
The current Crest model is called Crest MK3,
but the Crest on this wheel is slightly narrower than the MK3,
and where the MK3 has a flat rim profile,
this Crest has a triangular roof shape, close to an Iron Cross profile.
HB-M9010 32H full race (full competition equivalent) 2-cross reverse Italian lacing with
turquoise aluminum nipples.
Looking at it from above, I'll admit, there's virtually no radial or lateral runout, centering is spot on,
and the tension on the rotor mount side is just before the limit,
so the original builder had built this wheel
as perfectly as possible under these conditions with these spokes and lacing pattern.
I'm confident I could do even better with a semi-comp 3-cross lacing with bridging,
but disassembling a wheel that's already properly built
feels unfair to the original builder, so
I asked the customer whether they'd feel awkward going back to the neighborhood shop
that built this wheel,
and it turned out the person who built this wheel there
is no longer there (they quit),
so that wouldn't be an issue.
All built.
Semi-comp 3-cross reverse Italian lacing with bridging
and silver aluminum nipples.