A customer dropped off the rear wheel from a ZIPP 303 with us.
After rebuilding another wheel for this customer—a ZIPP 404—with result laced spokes, they said the rear wheel felt completely different,
so they asked us to do the same with the 303. That's why we have it.
The note said Evo Hub 20H in semi-championship lacing, but
the 20H Evo Hubs have been out of stock for a long time now.
The distributors don't have them, but we happened to have some in stock—
though we've used those up too.
Because of this, we can't complete orders like Nomu Lab Wheel #3.
Actually, I think that 404 rear wheel for this customer was probably
the last 20H we ever used.
I was thinking about that when...
This is...
24H! No way!
So since we have plenty of 24H hub stock,
we can rebuild it.
The single cross on the non-freewheel side has its final crossing very close to the hub flange,
and it's pretty loose relative to the freewheel side tension.
If we'd adjusted it to run more tangentially,
it would've been much better... I think.
But Dura-Ace Ksilium does exactly that while also
using aluminum spokes with different diameters on left and right sides.
Crispy threadlocker is supposed to
do nothing more than prevent initial loosening,
but on this rear wheel, it wasn't even doing that—
you could loosen the nipples easily without even holding the spokes.
As you can see, it's not gripping the threads at all.
Though it does seem to be preventing rust from forming in the gaps between the threads.
Built.
Evo Hub 24H black semi-comp four-cross lacing.
I'll do the result lacing later.
Also, I forgot to mention—the rim is a WO.
The customer wanted 20H "semi-championship," but
doing semi-championship with 24H seemed risky,
and with 24H result lacing, semi-comp is plenty,
so that's what we went with.
After rebuilding another wheel for this customer—a ZIPP 404—with result laced spokes, they said the rear wheel felt completely different,
so they asked us to do the same with the 303. That's why we have it.
The note said Evo Hub 20H in semi-championship lacing, but
the 20H Evo Hubs have been out of stock for a long time now.
The distributors don't have them, but we happened to have some in stock—
though we've used those up too.
Because of this, we can't complete orders like Nomu Lab Wheel #3.
Actually, I think that 404 rear wheel for this customer was probably
the last 20H we ever used.
I was thinking about that when...
This is...
24H! No way!
So since we have plenty of 24H hub stock,
we can rebuild it.
The single cross on the non-freewheel side has its final crossing very close to the hub flange,
and it's pretty loose relative to the freewheel side tension.
If we'd adjusted it to run more tangentially,
it would've been much better... I think.
But Dura-Ace Ksilium does exactly that while also
using aluminum spokes with different diameters on left and right sides.
Crispy threadlocker is supposed to
do nothing more than prevent initial loosening,
but on this rear wheel, it wasn't even doing that—
you could loosen the nipples easily without even holding the spokes.
As you can see, it's not gripping the threads at all.
Though it does seem to be preventing rust from forming in the gaps between the threads.
Built.
Evo Hub 24H black semi-comp four-cross lacing.
I'll do the result lacing later.
Also, I forgot to mention—the rim is a WO.
The customer wanted 20H "semi-championship," but
doing semi-championship with 24H seemed risky,
and with 24H result lacing, semi-comp is plenty,
so that's what we went with.