～Heads Up!～
Lately, I've heard reports that some shops have been
using some pretty smooth talk when building wheels—
specifically about the spokes on the left and right sides
of rim-brake front wheels, or the left side of disc-brake front wheels.
They're saying things like "Heh heh, there's this hot new stuff going around,"
or "Everyone's doing it, it feels amazing,"
and basically steering customers toward CX Sprints.
Just a heads-up!
Anyway,
today it's back to wheels (and so on and so forth).
A customer dropped off a front wheel built with an ENVE 1.65 rim.
Chris King R45 hub, 20H
Black CX-RAY outpoke radial laced.
It's tensioned really tight—easier to tension than a rear wheel, I guess—
and honestly, I'm not sure I'd pull it this tight myself.
There was some dishing (center offset).
The wheel has almost no runout, so that was built in from the start.
To pull it back to center from here, I'd have to back off tension—there's no way around it.
I rebuilt the rear wheel (its partner) the other day,
and the customer wanted silver spokes for that one.
Honestly, there's no real reason to rebuild this front wheel
except to match spoke colors front and rear,
but the customer wanted silver CX-RAY... wait, hold on
"Heh heh, there's this hot new stuff going around..." (and so on)
Built it.
CX Sprint outpoke radial laced.
Center's dialed in, just to be sure.
Lately, I've heard reports that some shops have been
using some pretty smooth talk when building wheels—
specifically about the spokes on the left and right sides
of rim-brake front wheels, or the left side of disc-brake front wheels.
They're saying things like "Heh heh, there's this hot new stuff going around,"
or "Everyone's doing it, it feels amazing,"
and basically steering customers toward CX Sprints.
Just a heads-up!
Anyway,
today it's back to wheels (and so on and so forth).
A customer dropped off a front wheel built with an ENVE 1.65 rim.
Chris King R45 hub, 20H
Black CX-RAY outpoke radial laced.
It's tensioned really tight—easier to tension than a rear wheel, I guess—
and honestly, I'm not sure I'd pull it this tight myself.
There was some dishing (center offset).
The wheel has almost no runout, so that was built in from the start.
To pull it back to center from here, I'd have to back off tension—there's no way around it.
I rebuilt the rear wheel (its partner) the other day,
and the customer wanted silver spokes for that one.
Honestly, there's no real reason to rebuild this front wheel
except to match spoke colors front and rear,
but the customer wanted silver CX-RAY... wait, hold on
"Heh heh, there's this hot new stuff going around..." (and so on)
Built it.
CX Sprint outpoke radial laced.
Center's dialed in, just to be sure.