Another day, another wheel (and so on).
I received the rear wheel from a Reynolds Assault T from a customer.
They want me to rebuild it with a hub replacement.
It's a 24H non-DT hub, black competition/Revo Zero laced wheel.
The Revolution spoke on the non-freewheel side is noticeably thin.
In terms of spoke weight distribution, it's the same as half-competition—Competition/CX-RAY—but
the Revolution starts to create spoke windup at lower tensions than this rim's limit,
so for most riders, you can't tension it as much as would normally be needed.
No centering issues.
There's still room to increase tension, but from here it starts to produce windup.
If the non-freewheel side were 6-cross instead, you could actually easily "induce" it.
The rear hub isn't dimensionally bad,
but since it's a Shimano 10-speed hub, I won't reuse it.
The tubular tire was just sitting on the rim as a cushioning layer,
but Vittoria and TUFO tires
sometimes have labels on only one side (normally labels go on the right),
and based on the wood grain direction, the tread pattern is oriented to be correct
when mounted with the label on the left.
With TUFO, the reverse-label models are consistent with no exceptions,
while with Vittoria, entire production batches come with reverse labels,
so the same model can have the normal label in one period and the reverse label in another.
Either way, I always install tires following the conventions of the tread pattern,
so the tire in the image above will be mounted with the label on the left.
As for this STOP sticker,
on recent Reynolds rims, it's often on the right side (the freewheel side on rear wheels),
so I followed that convention on the 46 I built the other day (→here),
but on this rim it was on the left, so I'll keep it on the left after rebuilding too.
Since I don't know where the matching front wheel has it,
it's safest to keep it as it originally was.
Done.
Evolite hub, 24H, black half-competition 4-cross laced.
I'll do the truing later.
I received the rear wheel from a Reynolds Assault T from a customer.
They want me to rebuild it with a hub replacement.
It's a 24H non-DT hub, black competition/Revo Zero laced wheel.
The Revolution spoke on the non-freewheel side is noticeably thin.
In terms of spoke weight distribution, it's the same as half-competition—Competition/CX-RAY—but
the Revolution starts to create spoke windup at lower tensions than this rim's limit,
so for most riders, you can't tension it as much as would normally be needed.
No centering issues.
There's still room to increase tension, but from here it starts to produce windup.
If the non-freewheel side were 6-cross instead, you could actually easily "induce" it.
The rear hub isn't dimensionally bad,
but since it's a Shimano 10-speed hub, I won't reuse it.
The tubular tire was just sitting on the rim as a cushioning layer,
but Vittoria and TUFO tires
sometimes have labels on only one side (normally labels go on the right),
and based on the wood grain direction, the tread pattern is oriented to be correct
when mounted with the label on the left.
With TUFO, the reverse-label models are consistent with no exceptions,
while with Vittoria, entire production batches come with reverse labels,
so the same model can have the normal label in one period and the reverse label in another.
Either way, I always install tires following the conventions of the tread pattern,
so the tire in the image above will be mounted with the label on the left.
As for this STOP sticker,
on recent Reynolds rims, it's often on the right side (the freewheel side on rear wheels),
so I followed that convention on the 46 I built the other day (→here),
but on this rim it was on the left, so I'll keep it on the left after rebuilding too.
Since I don't know where the matching front wheel has it,
it's safest to keep it as it originally was.
Done.
Evolite hub, 24H, black half-competition 4-cross laced.
I'll do the truing later.