Wheels again today (and so on).
A customer dropped off Prime 50mm high carbon
tubeless-ready rim wheels with me.
The sticker is holographic and
shimmers when you rotate it (pretty much irrelevant).
The front wheel has a front hub 20H
with Pillar 2.0-1.8-2.0mm round butted black spokes (all competition grade)
built in reverse non-radial lacing.
The customer wanted it rebuilt with aero spokes,
so I'm rebuilding it with CX-RAY spokes.
All built.
Black CX-RAY reverse non-radial laced,
and per the customer's request, I used red aluminum nipples.
Next, the rear wheel.
Rear hub 24H
with Pillar all competition grade 4-cross lacing,
and the final cross on the freewheel side isn't woven.
Today, I also inspected a Prime complete wheel
with identical spokes and lacing pattern
but with an AT01 aluminum rim,
and on these wheels the final cross on the left rear side
is extremely loose and mushy when you grab it.
Presumably this lack of final cross weaving is to prevent squeaking,
but this is not unrelated to
the customer's complaint about "poor engagement"
on the 50mm high carbon rim wheel.
Rebuilt.
I reused the spokes on the freewheel side,
but I did disassemble it since I replaced all the nipples with red aluminum ones.
I changed the non-freewheel side to black CX-RAY,
so it's black semi-competition grade 4-cross lacing with spoke wrapping.
The freewheel side spokes were never pulled from the hub flange.
After the temporary build, I noticed the spoke length is slightly long and could use 0.5-1mm trimming,
but since the wheel was originally built with that same length,
I just continued with the work as-is.
I did weigh the rim,
but I only took a photo of the front rim weight.
Not an intentional design difference, just random variation,
but the rear rim (not an offset rim) was about 13g heavier.
What? You want me to tell you the front rim weight?
No way I'm giving that out for free
↑ugh what's with this guy, seriously terrible attitude
Sorry for the wait!
Please take a look at this image!
↑Stop iiiiiit!
A customer dropped off Prime 50mm high carbon
tubeless-ready rim wheels with me.
The sticker is holographic and
shimmers when you rotate it (pretty much irrelevant).
The front wheel has a front hub 20H
with Pillar 2.0-1.8-2.0mm round butted black spokes (all competition grade)
built in reverse non-radial lacing.
The customer wanted it rebuilt with aero spokes,
so I'm rebuilding it with CX-RAY spokes.
All built.
Black CX-RAY reverse non-radial laced,
and per the customer's request, I used red aluminum nipples.
Next, the rear wheel.
Rear hub 24H
with Pillar all competition grade 4-cross lacing,
and the final cross on the freewheel side isn't woven.
Today, I also inspected a Prime complete wheel
with identical spokes and lacing pattern
but with an AT01 aluminum rim,
and on these wheels the final cross on the left rear side
is extremely loose and mushy when you grab it.
Presumably this lack of final cross weaving is to prevent squeaking,
but this is not unrelated to
the customer's complaint about "poor engagement"
on the 50mm high carbon rim wheel.
Rebuilt.
I reused the spokes on the freewheel side,
but I did disassemble it since I replaced all the nipples with red aluminum ones.
I changed the non-freewheel side to black CX-RAY,
so it's black semi-competition grade 4-cross lacing with spoke wrapping.
The freewheel side spokes were never pulled from the hub flange.
After the temporary build, I noticed the spoke length is slightly long and could use 0.5-1mm trimming,
but since the wheel was originally built with that same length,
I just continued with the work as-is.
I did weigh the rim,
but I only took a photo of the front rim weight.
Not an intentional design difference, just random variation,
but the rear rim (not an offset rim) was about 13g heavier.
What? You want me to tell you the front rim weight?
No way I'm giving that out for free
↑ugh what's with this guy, seriously terrible attitude
Sorry for the wait!
Please take a look at this image!
↑Stop iiiiiit!