Another day, another wheel (you know the drill).
A customer dropped off a wheel built with a Stan's Alpha 340 rim.
Apparently everyone who sees it tells them "that rim's gonna crack,"
but why does everyone know about the extreme number of rim hole damage cases on this rim?
There must be some blog out there spreading the word and educating people about it.
（→here）and （→here）
Anyway, this time around, neither the front nor rear rim had cracks in the rim holes.
Cris King R45 limited-edition pink hub, 24H
Black CX-RAY 6x6 Italian cross lacing with
pink nipples on the spokes, but
For a hand-built wheel, it's got serious centering problems.
The rim is shifted to the left, so it's not from age—it was built like this from the start.
Actually, it's possible that age has slightly improved the centering over time.
This is another wheel built by a certain shop in Osaka that specializes in building crappy-quality wheels with Cris King hubs.
Random tangent, but where the pink nipples contact inside the rim, the anodizing hasn't faded, so it's got that two-tone Apollo chocolate look.
Built it. Using Nomu Lab Wheel #5 rim.
24H, black semi-comp 4x6 lacing with cross. Front and rear-left black CX-RAY
could only be reused if I'd made a mistake and used spoke nipples that were too long,
but I'd made them too short, so no luck there.
And even if they were the right length, reuse wouldn't work, plus some spokes had paint chipping,
so I wasn't particularly bent on reusing them anyway.
Next up, the front wheel.
R45 hub, 24H, black CX-RAY reversed non-radial lacing
Got centering issues too.
Built it.
I said earlier that there were no cracks in the front and rear rims,
but the customer left 3 rims to be disposed of.
Something must have been wrong with the fourth one.
Black CX-RAY (brand new) reversed non-radial lacing.
I went with black aluminum nipples for both front and rear wheels.
A customer dropped off a wheel built with a Stan's Alpha 340 rim.
Apparently everyone who sees it tells them "that rim's gonna crack,"
but why does everyone know about the extreme number of rim hole damage cases on this rim?
There must be some blog out there spreading the word and educating people about it.
（→here）and （→here）
Anyway, this time around, neither the front nor rear rim had cracks in the rim holes.
Cris King R45 limited-edition pink hub, 24H
Black CX-RAY 6x6 Italian cross lacing with
pink nipples on the spokes, but
For a hand-built wheel, it's got serious centering problems.
The rim is shifted to the left, so it's not from age—it was built like this from the start.
Actually, it's possible that age has slightly improved the centering over time.
This is another wheel built by a certain shop in Osaka that specializes in building crappy-quality wheels with Cris King hubs.
Random tangent, but where the pink nipples contact inside the rim, the anodizing hasn't faded, so it's got that two-tone Apollo chocolate look.
Built it. Using Nomu Lab Wheel #5 rim.
24H, black semi-comp 4x6 lacing with cross. Front and rear-left black CX-RAY
could only be reused if I'd made a mistake and used spoke nipples that were too long,
but I'd made them too short, so no luck there.
And even if they were the right length, reuse wouldn't work, plus some spokes had paint chipping,
so I wasn't particularly bent on reusing them anyway.
Next up, the front wheel.
R45 hub, 24H, black CX-RAY reversed non-radial lacing
Got centering issues too.
Built it.
I said earlier that there were no cracks in the front and rear rims,
but the customer left 3 rims to be disposed of.
Something must have been wrong with the fourth one.
Black CX-RAY (brand new) reversed non-radial lacing.
I went with black aluminum nipples for both front and rear wheels.