Another wheel day (details omitted).
A customer left me an LWC 30mm deep (actually measured at 30.5mm)
tubular rim with me.
It's a 24H rim with evenly spaced holes,
and they want me to build a rear wheel with this
and a Fulcrum Racing Light XLR hub.
Built it.
I don't know the history of why they only have the hub.
Maybe they destroyed the rear rim on their Racing Light XLR?
Due to the hub design, it's 16+8H for 24H,
but I went with black CX Sprint straight spokes on both sides.
I considered doing a reverse asymmetric build
with the freehub side in CX-RAY,
but I didn't.
I actually have experience building Hyperion rims
as tight as possible (playing dumb here),
but those have large nipple washers on the grip area
of the hexagonal internal nipples,
and because the contact surfaces are spherical,
the tension limit differs from standard nipples.
This rear wheel couldn't reach that level of tension.
The rim being lighter than Hyperion or Racing Light probably plays a role too.
If I laced the freehub side, it might transform the wheel,
but that creates two problems.
True-ing wouldn't be an issue,
but the customer's local shop spouted nonsense
about not being able to true wheels with laced spokes,
and there's a high likelihood they'd be too intimidated
to even attempt it anyway.
The other issue is that if the chain drops,
in the worst case you'd need to replace
all the spokes on the freehub side.
When looking through the valve hole,
I aligned the hub shell phase with the Fulcrum logo.
When we first discussed this,
I said 2:1 lacing rims with right-left-right×n hole offset
would be hard to source,
so I asked them to find a 24H rim without hole offset,
but the rim that arrived had holes staggered left-right alternating pretty significantly.
Since there was no turning back, I just built it anyway.
A customer left me an LWC 30mm deep (actually measured at 30.5mm)
tubular rim with me.
It's a 24H rim with evenly spaced holes,
and they want me to build a rear wheel with this
and a Fulcrum Racing Light XLR hub.
Built it.
I don't know the history of why they only have the hub.
Maybe they destroyed the rear rim on their Racing Light XLR?
Due to the hub design, it's 16+8H for 24H,
but I went with black CX Sprint straight spokes on both sides.
I considered doing a reverse asymmetric build
with the freehub side in CX-RAY,
but I didn't.
I actually have experience building Hyperion rims
as tight as possible (playing dumb here),
but those have large nipple washers on the grip area
of the hexagonal internal nipples,
and because the contact surfaces are spherical,
the tension limit differs from standard nipples.
This rear wheel couldn't reach that level of tension.
The rim being lighter than Hyperion or Racing Light probably plays a role too.
If I laced the freehub side, it might transform the wheel,
but that creates two problems.
True-ing wouldn't be an issue,
but the customer's local shop spouted nonsense
about not being able to true wheels with laced spokes,
and there's a high likelihood they'd be too intimidated
to even attempt it anyway.
The other issue is that if the chain drops,
in the worst case you'd need to replace
all the spokes on the freehub side.
When looking through the valve hole,
I aligned the hub shell phase with the Fulcrum logo.
When we first discussed this,
I said 2:1 lacing rims with right-left-right×n hole offset
would be hard to source,
so I asked them to find a 24H rim without hole offset,
but the rim that arrived had holes staggered left-right alternating pretty significantly.
Since there was no turning back, I just built it anyway.