Another day of wheel work (and so on).

A customer dropped off a rear wheel built with a DT XR361 rim.
It's a 29-inch, by the way.


FH-M9000 32H, all-black competition laced JIS-style.
The customer built this themselves, but



it's perfectly centered with virtually no runout,
and the tension is nice and tight.
Getting this kind of tension with squorx nipples,
which have high sliding friction,
is no easy task.


Unlike the XR331, the XR361 is an offset rim,
so the difference in spoke deformation left and right is reduced.
So, given there's no particular problem with this rear wheel,
the reason we're rebuilding it is that
the customer also has a wheel I built,
and they said "no matter how I build a wheel myself,
I can never get it to feel the same stiffness."
Well, well, well.

But if they can build one this well, I could suggest
they bring me a rear wheel laced in semi-competition 46-spoke or
48-spoke pattern, and I'll just handle the lacing myself.


I decided to reuse the competition 6-pack spokes on the freewheel side
by cutting them to 4-pack length.
The image above shows the state where I've extracted the spokes.


It's laced up.


Semi-competition 46-spoke JIS laced with crossing.