Today it's wheels again (and so on).
A customer left me a set of Prime 50mm high carbon tubeless-ready rim wheels for service.
The sticker is holographic—it glitters when it spins (not really that important).
The front wheel has a front hub, 20H, Pillar 2.0–1.8–2.0mm round butted black spokes (all-competition grade), laced radially outpoke.
The customer wanted it rebuilt with aero spokes, so we're going with CX-RAY.
Built it.
Black CX-RAY, radially laced outpoke, and
at the customer's request, with red aluminum nipples.
Next up, the rear wheel.
Rear hub, 24H, Pillar all-competition grade, laced 4-cross, with the final crossing on the non-freewheel side left unwoven.
Today I also inspected a Prime complete wheel with identical spoke and lacing pattern but an AT01 aluminum rim, and I noticed something: the final crossing on the left side of the rear wheel is extremely loose—it jiggles when you grab it. This is probably deliberate to avoid noise, but the customer with the 50mm carbon rim specifically said "I can clearly feel the engagement is poor," and this lacing method isn't unrelated to that problem.
Rebuilt it. I reused the spokes on the freewheel side, but since I swapped all the nipples to red aluminum, I had to disassemble it first.
For the non-freewheel side I used black CX-RAY, so it's 4-cross, half-competition grade, with lacing. I never pulled the freewheel-side spokes out of the hub flange itself. After the rough build I realized the spoke length was a bit long and could've been trimmed by 0.5–1mm, but since the wheel was originally built with that same length anyway, I just kept going.
I did weigh the rims, but I only photographed the front rim weight. This isn't intentional variation but just normal scatter, but the rear rim (non-offset) was about 13g heavier.
What's that? You want me to tell you the front rim weight? I'm not giving that away for free!
↑ Wow, what a terrible attitude.
S-o-r-r-y f-o-r t-h-e w-a-i-t!
P-l-e-a-s-e c-h-e-c-k o-u-t t-h-i-s p-h-o-t-o!
↑ Don't you dare!
A customer left me a set of Prime 50mm high carbon tubeless-ready rim wheels for service.
The sticker is holographic—it glitters when it spins (not really that important).
The front wheel has a front hub, 20H, Pillar 2.0–1.8–2.0mm round butted black spokes (all-competition grade), laced radially outpoke.
The customer wanted it rebuilt with aero spokes, so we're going with CX-RAY.
Built it.
Black CX-RAY, radially laced outpoke, and
at the customer's request, with red aluminum nipples.
Next up, the rear wheel.
Rear hub, 24H, Pillar all-competition grade, laced 4-cross, with the final crossing on the non-freewheel side left unwoven.
Today I also inspected a Prime complete wheel with identical spoke and lacing pattern but an AT01 aluminum rim, and I noticed something: the final crossing on the left side of the rear wheel is extremely loose—it jiggles when you grab it. This is probably deliberate to avoid noise, but the customer with the 50mm carbon rim specifically said "I can clearly feel the engagement is poor," and this lacing method isn't unrelated to that problem.
Rebuilt it. I reused the spokes on the freewheel side, but since I swapped all the nipples to red aluminum, I had to disassemble it first.
For the non-freewheel side I used black CX-RAY, so it's 4-cross, half-competition grade, with lacing. I never pulled the freewheel-side spokes out of the hub flange itself. After the rough build I realized the spoke length was a bit long and could've been trimmed by 0.5–1mm, but since the wheel was originally built with that same length anyway, I just kept going.
I did weigh the rims, but I only photographed the front rim weight. This isn't intentional variation but just normal scatter, but the rear rim (non-offset) was about 13g heavier.
What's that? You want me to tell you the front rim weight? I'm not giving that away for free!
↑ Wow, what a terrible attitude.
S-o-r-r-y f-o-r t-h-e w-a-i-t!
P-l-e-a-s-e c-h-e-c-k o-u-t t-h-i-s p-h-o-t-o!
↑ Don't you dare!