Another wheel day (and so on).
A customer brought in a rear wheel built with a DT XR361 rim.
It's 29 inches, by the way.
FH-M9000, 32H, all-black competition six-cross JIS lacing.
The customer built it themselves, but
It's perfectly centered with virtually no runout,
and the tension is really well tensioned.
Getting this level of tension with squeaky nipples that have high friction
is no easy feat.
Unlike the XR331, the XR361 is an offset rim,
so the difference in spoke deflection between left and right is minimized.
So, the reason for rebuilding this rear wheel despite having no particular issues is
that while the customer also has wheels I've built,
they said, "No matter how I build a wheel myself,
I can never get it to feel the same stiffness."
I see, hehehehe.
But if they can build it this well, I figured they could just bring me
a rear wheel laced as semi-comp 24-cross or 48-cross,
and I could do the lacing tied-in. That would work too.
The freewheel side competition six-cross spokes
were cut to four-cross length and reused.
The image above shows just after pulling out the inpokes.
Built it.
Semi-comp 24-cross JIS lacing with lacing tied-in.
A customer brought in a rear wheel built with a DT XR361 rim.
It's 29 inches, by the way.
FH-M9000, 32H, all-black competition six-cross JIS lacing.
The customer built it themselves, but
It's perfectly centered with virtually no runout,
and the tension is really well tensioned.
Getting this level of tension with squeaky nipples that have high friction
is no easy feat.
Unlike the XR331, the XR361 is an offset rim,
so the difference in spoke deflection between left and right is minimized.
So, the reason for rebuilding this rear wheel despite having no particular issues is
that while the customer also has wheels I've built,
they said, "No matter how I build a wheel myself,
I can never get it to feel the same stiffness."
I see, hehehehe.
But if they can build it this well, I figured they could just bring me
a rear wheel laced as semi-comp 24-cross or 48-cross,
and I could do the lacing tied-in. That would work too.
The freewheel side competition six-cross spokes
were cut to four-cross length and reused.
The image above shows just after pulling out the inpokes.
Built it.
Semi-comp 24-cross JIS lacing with lacing tied-in.