～Heads Up!～
Recently, at a certain shop, when building wheels
some folks have been persuasively steering customers toward
CX Sprint spokes for the left/right spokes on rim brake front wheels
or the left-side spokes on disc brake front wheels,
with smooth-talking lines like:
"Heh heh, there's some new hotness that's been circulating lately"
"Everyone's doing it, it feels amazing"
Please be cautious!
Anyway,
today it's wheels again (et cetera).
I received an ENVE 1.65 rim front wheel from a customer for work.
Chris King R45 hub, 20H
Black CX-RAY spokes, semi-radial lacing.
It's tensioned really tight—easier to tension than the rear wheel apparently,
and even for me it's on the extreme end of how tight I'd go,
It had centering issues.
There's barely any runout, so it was like that from the start.
To center this from here, I'd need to adjust it in a loosening direction.
The matching rear wheel was rebuilt the other day,
and at the customer's request, I used silver spokes.
This front wheel has no reason to rebuild other than
matching spoke color between front and rear,
but at the customer's request, silver CX-RAY... wait, hold on
"Heh heh, there's some new hotness that's been circulating (et cetera)"
Built it.
CX Sprint spokes, semi-radial lacing.
Centered, just to be sure.
Recently, at a certain shop, when building wheels
some folks have been persuasively steering customers toward
CX Sprint spokes for the left/right spokes on rim brake front wheels
or the left-side spokes on disc brake front wheels,
with smooth-talking lines like:
"Heh heh, there's some new hotness that's been circulating lately"
"Everyone's doing it, it feels amazing"
Please be cautious!
Anyway,
today it's wheels again (et cetera).
I received an ENVE 1.65 rim front wheel from a customer for work.
Chris King R45 hub, 20H
Black CX-RAY spokes, semi-radial lacing.
It's tensioned really tight—easier to tension than the rear wheel apparently,
and even for me it's on the extreme end of how tight I'd go,
It had centering issues.
There's barely any runout, so it was like that from the start.
To center this from here, I'd need to adjust it in a loosening direction.
The matching rear wheel was rebuilt the other day,
and at the customer's request, I used silver spokes.
This front wheel has no reason to rebuild other than
matching spoke color between front and rear,
but at the customer's request, silver CX-RAY... wait, hold on
"Heh heh, there's some new hotness that's been circulating (et cetera)"
Built it.
CX Sprint spokes, semi-radial lacing.
Centered, just to be sure.