Another wheel day (and so on).
I received a Reynolds Assault T front wheel from a customer.
Reynolds hub, 20H, black Revolution radial-laced round spokes.
I've never really understood why certain manufacturers like Roval build high-profile wheels—especially front wheels—with round spokes.
Whether it's galvanic corrosion or threadlocker compound increasing resistance in the spoke threads, when you turn the nipple the spoke tends to rotate with it, making adjustment difficult.
If you switch the spokes to their Aerolight model instead, the weight stays about the same, but serviceability improves and you don't get that weird wobbling effect
(strictly speaking, it still happens, but at a higher stress point than the rim can handle, so it's basically a non-issue).
Plus, since they're called aero spokes, they have an aerodynamic advantage too.
The customer wanted me to build a disc brake front wheel using this rim.
The original wheel had Reynolds's typical "front wheel treated as reverse rim," but since this rim has no offset holes on either the inner or outer circumference on either side,
I'll build it as a standard rim when doing the left-right tangent lacing next.
Got it built.
Novatec D791SB hub, 20H, black, half-CX Sprint spokes
44-count reverse Italian lacing, left drop, standard rim treatment
(if you want to build it with reverse rim treatment, you just change the initial spoke entry through the hub flange to right drop).
I'll do the truing afterwards.
I received a Reynolds Assault T front wheel from a customer.
Reynolds hub, 20H, black Revolution radial-laced round spokes.
I've never really understood why certain manufacturers like Roval build high-profile wheels—especially front wheels—with round spokes.
Whether it's galvanic corrosion or threadlocker compound increasing resistance in the spoke threads, when you turn the nipple the spoke tends to rotate with it, making adjustment difficult.
If you switch the spokes to their Aerolight model instead, the weight stays about the same, but serviceability improves and you don't get that weird wobbling effect
(strictly speaking, it still happens, but at a higher stress point than the rim can handle, so it's basically a non-issue).
Plus, since they're called aero spokes, they have an aerodynamic advantage too.
The customer wanted me to build a disc brake front wheel using this rim.
The original wheel had Reynolds's typical "front wheel treated as reverse rim," but since this rim has no offset holes on either the inner or outer circumference on either side,
I'll build it as a standard rim when doing the left-right tangent lacing next.
Got it built.
Novatec D791SB hub, 20H, black, half-CX Sprint spokes
44-count reverse Italian lacing, left drop, standard rim treatment
(if you want to build it with reverse rim treatment, you just change the initial spoke entry through the hub flange to right drop).
I'll do the truing afterwards.