A customer brought in a front wheel built with a Kinrin (キンリン) XR300 rim.
The rim color is silver, and
it's built with a dynamo hub.
This is something I built myself back in the day (→here), but
the rim has buckled.
The XR300 rim comes in black anodize, silver anodize, and gold anodize finishes,
as well as white and pink paint options, but
the Tni brand AL300 rim is only available in black anodize.
Given that situation, this XR300 rim is a customer's own part, but
the customer asked me to strip down another front wheel I built for a separate job
to get a replacement rim, so I have a second front wheel on deposit.
This one doesn't have a dynamo hub.
I could strip it down, but
these days, the Tni brand AL300 is available with a silver rim
(the Tni sticker isn't applied to it originally), so
I ended up using this one instead.
The front wheel without the dynamo hub
had a slight wobble, so I straightened it out.
Spot-on center now.
Since it's built Italian style, I've included the hub flanges in the shot
to show the left-right orientation clearly.
Anyway, I'm in the middle of swapping the rim on the dynamo hub wheel...
It's built.
Since this rim came from our shop's inventory, it's Nomu Lab Wheel No. 1.
The difference is that it comes with an unwritten warranty.
That said, for this rebuild, I'm charging the labor as if it were a Nomu Lab Wheel
(since I definitely built the original one myself).
The rim color is silver, and
it's built with a dynamo hub.
This is something I built myself back in the day (→here), but
the rim has buckled.
The XR300 rim comes in black anodize, silver anodize, and gold anodize finishes,
as well as white and pink paint options, but
the Tni brand AL300 rim is only available in black anodize.
Given that situation, this XR300 rim is a customer's own part, but
the customer asked me to strip down another front wheel I built for a separate job
to get a replacement rim, so I have a second front wheel on deposit.
This one doesn't have a dynamo hub.
I could strip it down, but
these days, the Tni brand AL300 is available with a silver rim
(the Tni sticker isn't applied to it originally), so
I ended up using this one instead.
The front wheel without the dynamo hub
had a slight wobble, so I straightened it out.
Spot-on center now.
Since it's built Italian style, I've included the hub flanges in the shot
to show the left-right orientation clearly.
Anyway, I'm in the middle of swapping the rim on the dynamo hub wheel...
It's built.
Since this rim came from our shop's inventory, it's Nomu Lab Wheel No. 1.
The difference is that it comes with an unwritten warranty.
That said, for this rebuild, I'm charging the labor as if it were a Nomu Lab Wheel
(since I definitely built the original one myself).