The partner to the rear wheel I rebuilt the other day.
Chris King R45 hub, 20H
Black CX-RAY outpoke radial lacing.
The customer was saying if there's still any room to tension it more, please do so—
but the thing is, it's already tensioned pretty damn tight, and there's almost no room for further tightening.
I thought maybe a nearby shop had said "with this hub, tensioning it more is pointless" and had cranked it as far as possible, so I asked the customer about it,
but apparently they hadn't done anything special to it.
I'm not doubting them or anything,
but it was tensioned way more than you'd normally see on a factory-stock setup.
There was a slight lateral centering issue.
Wringing it out, treading on thin ice—
I did about a quarter-turn additional tightening on both sides,
and on top of that, fixed the centering issue
There was a tendency toward one-sided heavy tightening,
so there's not a single nipple that wasn't already tensioned from the start.
If this doesn't work, I've got no choice but to rebuild it with a CX Sprint.
Chris King R45 hub, 20H
Black CX-RAY outpoke radial lacing.
The customer was saying if there's still any room to tension it more, please do so—
but the thing is, it's already tensioned pretty damn tight, and there's almost no room for further tightening.
I thought maybe a nearby shop had said "with this hub, tensioning it more is pointless" and had cranked it as far as possible, so I asked the customer about it,
but apparently they hadn't done anything special to it.
I'm not doubting them or anything,
but it was tensioned way more than you'd normally see on a factory-stock setup.
There was a slight lateral centering issue.
Wringing it out, treading on thin ice—
I did about a quarter-turn additional tightening on both sides,
and on top of that, fixed the centering issue
There was a tendency toward one-sided heavy tightening,
so there's not a single nipple that wasn't already tensioned from the start.
If this doesn't work, I've got no choice but to rebuild it with a CX Sprint.