Another wheel day yesterday (and so on).
Yesterday (January 6th) I was quietly working away in the shop.
I built a front wheel with a Smart Envy System 4.5 tubular rim.
As a rim model, it's the A48.
The hub is an ExtraLite Cyber Front front hub.
It seems like "Cyber Front" is the full model name, not just "Cyber,"
so I wrote it that way.
It's a 20H straight-spoke hub, and the customer wanted it tensioned as high as possible,
but judging from the flange shape and everything else, the maximum tension limit looked pretty low.
When I checked, I thought it might be lower than ENVE rims,
but ENVE has apparently gotten lower over the years too,
so in the end the nominal maximum tension for rim and hub turned out to be the same.
Black CX-RAY straight spokes, left and right 2-cross forced reverse JIS lacing.
Hub flanges for straight spokes sometimes have chamfering on the spoke head seating on both sides,
but this hub only has it on one side, so the lacing method is forced.
As usual, following the "this side is left" marking
makes the lettering on the hub shell end up backwards.
↑Right end
↑Left end
The left end has a play-adjustment mechanism,
but no lateral play from spoke tension developed during wheel building.
I'm not sure if it's related to the fact that most of the flange sits outside the bearing.
Yesterday (January 6th) I was quietly working away in the shop.
I built a front wheel with a Smart Envy System 4.5 tubular rim.
As a rim model, it's the A48.
The hub is an ExtraLite Cyber Front front hub.
It seems like "Cyber Front" is the full model name, not just "Cyber,"
so I wrote it that way.
It's a 20H straight-spoke hub, and the customer wanted it tensioned as high as possible,
but judging from the flange shape and everything else, the maximum tension limit looked pretty low.
When I checked, I thought it might be lower than ENVE rims,
but ENVE has apparently gotten lower over the years too,
so in the end the nominal maximum tension for rim and hub turned out to be the same.
Black CX-RAY straight spokes, left and right 2-cross forced reverse JIS lacing.
Hub flanges for straight spokes sometimes have chamfering on the spoke head seating on both sides,
but this hub only has it on one side, so the lacing method is forced.
As usual, following the "this side is left" marking
makes the lettering on the hub shell end up backwards.
↑Right end
↑Left end
The left end has a play-adjustment mechanism,
but no lateral play from spoke tension developed during wheel building.
I'm not sure if it's related to the fact that most of the flange sits outside the bearing.