Another wheel build day (and so on).
A customer left me a rear wheel built with a 700C aluminum rim.
There's a sticker with the shop name on it, so it's one of that guy's jobs.
From the characteristic machining on the rim opposite the valve,
it's definitely an old DT rim.
The wear indicators — 14 per wheel on one side of the rim — are also a distinctive feature.
Single eyelets, so with eyelets it's confirmed as RR-series, not R-series.
From the rim height, it's either RR415 or its old name RR1.1.
Since there's no sticker, I can't tell which one (though they're the same thing).
32H Evo hub, 6x6 lacing, Comp/Revo different-diameter left-right build.
The person who built this wheel once told me that wheels he builds
don't develop spoke windup even with round spokes at 65% spoke weight ratio,
or some such nonsense, but
it's nothing more than him building wheels loosely at tensions below
the windup generation threshold.
I've redone many of his wheels, but there's never been a single case
of it being the other way around.
Including this one, I've never seen a single proper wheel
that guy has actually built.
This time I'm only using the hub — the wheel gets stripped apart.
The rim is an ALEXRIMS DA16 20-inch HE rim.
A while back I built a wheel with the same rim in a different color,
and the customer requested I peel off the stickers,
but this time nothing was mentioned, so I'll build it as-is.
It's built.
Evo hub, 32H, all Champion 14/15 gauge, 4x6 lacing, no bracing.
A customer left me a rear wheel built with a 700C aluminum rim.
There's a sticker with the shop name on it, so it's one of that guy's jobs.
From the characteristic machining on the rim opposite the valve,
it's definitely an old DT rim.
The wear indicators — 14 per wheel on one side of the rim — are also a distinctive feature.
Single eyelets, so with eyelets it's confirmed as RR-series, not R-series.
From the rim height, it's either RR415 or its old name RR1.1.
Since there's no sticker, I can't tell which one (though they're the same thing).
32H Evo hub, 6x6 lacing, Comp/Revo different-diameter left-right build.
The person who built this wheel once told me that wheels he builds
don't develop spoke windup even with round spokes at 65% spoke weight ratio,
or some such nonsense, but
it's nothing more than him building wheels loosely at tensions below
the windup generation threshold.
I've redone many of his wheels, but there's never been a single case
of it being the other way around.
Including this one, I've never seen a single proper wheel
that guy has actually built.
This time I'm only using the hub — the wheel gets stripped apart.
The rim is an ALEXRIMS DA16 20-inch HE rim.
A while back I built a wheel with the same rim in a different color,
and the customer requested I peel off the stickers,
but this time nothing was mentioned, so I'll build it as-is.
It's built.
Evo hub, 32H, all Champion 14/15 gauge, 4x6 lacing, no bracing.