Another day of wheel building (and so on).
A customer left me a Reynolds Assault T front wheel for service.
Reynolds hub, 20H, black, laced with outpokes in radial pattern.
I've always wondered why certain manufacturers—Lovarol and others—build high-rim wheels, especially front wheels, with straight spokes.
Whether it's galvanic corrosion or thread-locking compound making the nipple threads harder to turn, when you rotate the nipple it can cause spoke creep, making adjustment really tedious.
If you swap the spokes for the same company's Aero Lite spokes, the weight stays about the same, but you get much better serviceability and no more spoke creep happens
(strictly speaking, it does happen, but the stress threshold is higher than the rim's strength limit, so it's practically unlimited).
Plus, as the name "aero spoke" suggests, you get aerodynamic advantages too.
The customer's request was to build a front wheel for disc brakes using this rim.
The original wheel is Reynolds' typical "reverse rim orientation for front wheel only" setup, but since the rim itself has no hole offset on either the inner or outer circumference sides,
when I build it next with left-right tangent lacing, I'll treat it as a standard-orientation rim.
Got it built.
Novatec D791SB hub, 20H, black, half-CX sprint.
44-spoke reverse Italian with right-drop, standard rim orientation
(if you want to build it with reverse rim orientation instead, you'd start the spoke passage through the hub flange on the left drop).
I'll do the truing work later.
A customer left me a Reynolds Assault T front wheel for service.
Reynolds hub, 20H, black, laced with outpokes in radial pattern.
I've always wondered why certain manufacturers—Lovarol and others—build high-rim wheels, especially front wheels, with straight spokes.
Whether it's galvanic corrosion or thread-locking compound making the nipple threads harder to turn, when you rotate the nipple it can cause spoke creep, making adjustment really tedious.
If you swap the spokes for the same company's Aero Lite spokes, the weight stays about the same, but you get much better serviceability and no more spoke creep happens
(strictly speaking, it does happen, but the stress threshold is higher than the rim's strength limit, so it's practically unlimited).
Plus, as the name "aero spoke" suggests, you get aerodynamic advantages too.
The customer's request was to build a front wheel for disc brakes using this rim.
The original wheel is Reynolds' typical "reverse rim orientation for front wheel only" setup, but since the rim itself has no hole offset on either the inner or outer circumference sides,
when I build it next with left-right tangent lacing, I'll treat it as a standard-orientation rim.
Got it built.
Novatec D791SB hub, 20H, black, half-CX sprint.
44-spoke reverse Italian with right-drop, standard rim orientation
(if you want to build it with reverse rim orientation instead, you'd start the spoke passage through the hub flange on the left drop).
I'll do the truing work later.