Another wheel day (etc.).
A customer brought in a front wheel built with a Reynolds 32 rim.
It was all-Campagnolo 20H outpoke radial laced with rim brake specs,
but they wanted me to rebuild it with a
100×12mm thru-axle disc hub.
Done.
Novatec D791SB hub, 20H, semi-Campagnolo 4-cross reverse Italian laced.
I'll do the spoke twist-tying later.
Going back in the timeline—the Reynolds front wheel is laced treating the rim as reverse-facing.
The rear wheel is treated as standard-facing.
This silver hub doesn't look like a complete wheel should, but
it's actually a Reynolds wheel.
Another case with the same front wheel (→here)
The Reynolds rim holes have no offset, so
(I think this is also why Reynolds officially treats front and rear rims differently)
it works either way. Personally, when rebuilding 32 rims or
building the front wheel of nom-lab wheel #6, I usually lace them standard-facing,
but this time I laced it reverse-facing.
Since it's tangent-laced, you need to pay close attention to
the fact that right-drop/left-drop reverses when threading spokes through the hub.
About the Novatec red-stripe hubs (the image above shows 291 and 482)—
I received a comment a little while back asking where you align
the phase relationship with the valve hole.
In my case, I align it at the "NOVA" part of NOVATEC,
where the hub name is visible.
As long as front and rear wheels are consistent with each other,
you can align it wherever you like.
For example, with Dura-Ace hubs,
I align it with the DURA-ACE logo.
The model number like HB-9000 is on the opposite side of the logo,
but Shimano's complete wheels are
aligned with the model number like WH-9000 instead.
If you build both wheels around the same time,
you probably won't mess up the alignment,
but when there's a gap in timing, you can't check the other wheel to match,
so you can end up getting the alignment wrong.
Previously, I built front and rear wheels at different times for a customer who wanted
"five consecutive rim holes near the opposite side of the valve hole with Arcenciel-colored nipples,"
and I laced one clockwise blue→red→black→gold (yellow)→green,
but when I built the other one later,
I accidentally did the reverse order—
so I had to fix it afterwards.
A customer brought in a front wheel built with a Reynolds 32 rim.
It was all-Campagnolo 20H outpoke radial laced with rim brake specs,
but they wanted me to rebuild it with a
100×12mm thru-axle disc hub.
Done.
Novatec D791SB hub, 20H, semi-Campagnolo 4-cross reverse Italian laced.
I'll do the spoke twist-tying later.
Going back in the timeline—the Reynolds front wheel is laced treating the rim as reverse-facing.
The rear wheel is treated as standard-facing.
This silver hub doesn't look like a complete wheel should, but
it's actually a Reynolds wheel.
Another case with the same front wheel (→here)
The Reynolds rim holes have no offset, so
(I think this is also why Reynolds officially treats front and rear rims differently)
it works either way. Personally, when rebuilding 32 rims or
building the front wheel of nom-lab wheel #6, I usually lace them standard-facing,
but this time I laced it reverse-facing.
Since it's tangent-laced, you need to pay close attention to
the fact that right-drop/left-drop reverses when threading spokes through the hub.
About the Novatec red-stripe hubs (the image above shows 291 and 482)—
I received a comment a little while back asking where you align
the phase relationship with the valve hole.
In my case, I align it at the "NOVA" part of NOVATEC,
where the hub name is visible.
As long as front and rear wheels are consistent with each other,
you can align it wherever you like.
For example, with Dura-Ace hubs,
I align it with the DURA-ACE logo.
The model number like HB-9000 is on the opposite side of the logo,
but Shimano's complete wheels are
aligned with the model number like WH-9000 instead.
If you build both wheels around the same time,
you probably won't mess up the alignment,
but when there's a gap in timing, you can't check the other wheel to match,
so you can end up getting the alignment wrong.
Previously, I built front and rear wheels at different times for a customer who wanted
"five consecutive rim holes near the opposite side of the valve hole with Arcenciel-colored nipples,"
and I laced one clockwise blue→red→black→gold (yellow)→green,
but when I built the other one later,
I accidentally did the reverse order—
so I had to fix it afterwards.