Another day working on wheels (and so on).
I built a front wheel with a DT XR361 rim.
This rim comes in 29 inches as well, but this one is a 27.5 inch rim.
Shimano XT HB-8110B (Boost standard / 110mm width)
32H fully comp, radial and reverse Italian cross with no tie-ins.
Going back in the timeline a bit,
The XR331, DT's lightest rim for cross-country racing,
has nearly the same outer width as the RR411, their road racing rim
(though the XR331 is admittedly slightly wider),
and it's not an offset rim.
The XR361, which is the next lightest by weight,
is both wider and an offset rim compared to the XR331.
With DT rims, basically—or at least as far as I know—
even with past models without exception,
the sticker phase is 90° offset between left and right sides,
and both the RR411 and XR331 were like that,
but on this XR361 the stickers are in the same phase on both sides.
Actually, this makes wheel building easier and saves me trouble.
Because the centering gauge picks up the sticker thickness,
with rims where the sticker placement differs left and right,
there's a pretty limited "phase where neither side has a sticker"
to work with.
The Squorx nipple-specific washer that came with the rim
doesn't have alignment dots marked front to back,
so it's an early-generation specification.
By the way, the rim was brought in by a customer.
I built a front wheel with a DT XR361 rim.
This rim comes in 29 inches as well, but this one is a 27.5 inch rim.
Shimano XT HB-8110B (Boost standard / 110mm width)
32H fully comp, radial and reverse Italian cross with no tie-ins.
Going back in the timeline a bit,
The XR331, DT's lightest rim for cross-country racing,
has nearly the same outer width as the RR411, their road racing rim
(though the XR331 is admittedly slightly wider),
and it's not an offset rim.
The XR361, which is the next lightest by weight,
is both wider and an offset rim compared to the XR331.
With DT rims, basically—or at least as far as I know—
even with past models without exception,
the sticker phase is 90° offset between left and right sides,
and both the RR411 and XR331 were like that,
but on this XR361 the stickers are in the same phase on both sides.
Actually, this makes wheel building easier and saves me trouble.
Because the centering gauge picks up the sticker thickness,
with rims where the sticker placement differs left and right,
there's a pretty limited "phase where neither side has a sticker"
to work with.
The Squorx nipple-specific washer that came with the rim
doesn't have alignment dots marked front to back,
so it's an early-generation specification.
By the way, the rim was brought in by a customer.