Another wheel day (and so on).
I built a front wheel with Pasenti's Brevet rim.
BREVET is a French word meaning "patent," so
normally when you see this marking on a rim, it indicates
there's some patented element somewhere on the rim.
But that's not the case here—instead, it refers to the other meaning of
BREVET, which is "certification," and this rim is designed with
the cycling event type in mind that's called brevets (or "populaires" in French, though
generally known as brevets rather than "brèves" in English).
I wrote about this before when I built a wheel with this same rim (→here).
The hub is a Campagnolo Record large flange with a world mark, 32 holes,
and I used Campagnolo Record spokes in the Italian cross pattern.
With this rim though, the friction between the eyelet and the nipple was unusually high,
which made the wheel a bit tricky to build.
I can't remember if the previous one was like that too (there's no mention of it in my earlier post).
I built a front wheel with Pasenti's Brevet rim.
BREVET is a French word meaning "patent," so
normally when you see this marking on a rim, it indicates
there's some patented element somewhere on the rim.
But that's not the case here—instead, it refers to the other meaning of
BREVET, which is "certification," and this rim is designed with
the cycling event type in mind that's called brevets (or "populaires" in French, though
generally known as brevets rather than "brèves" in English).
I wrote about this before when I built a wheel with this same rim (→here).
The hub is a Campagnolo Record large flange with a world mark, 32 holes,
and I used Campagnolo Record spokes in the Italian cross pattern.
With this rim though, the friction between the eyelet and the nipple was unusually high,
which made the wheel a bit tricky to build.
I can't remember if the previous one was like that too (there's no mention of it in my earlier post).