Another day of wheel work (details to follow).
A customer brought in a rear wheel built with a Kinrin (Japanese rim brand) XR200 rim.
Based on the hub and spokes, I don't think it was originally meant for a Tni AL22 rim.
Novatec 482 SL hub (basically equivalent to Evo hub or the original design)
24H, pillar-pattern slitted holes, flat black spokes, 40-spoke lacing.
The freewheel side was tensioned pretty tightly,
but there was still a significant left-right difference in deformation compared to the non-freewheel side.
At this phase angle, the rim is slightly offset toward the non-freewheel side, but it happened to coincide with where runout was present—there were also phases where it looked perfectly centered.
The non-freewheel side felt a bit loose for the spoke cross-section, so I just checked to see if it was actually shifted toward the freewheel side.
Before
After
I cleaned the hub after disassembling the wheel.
All assembled.
The rim is AL22W, as mentioned in the title.
Black semi-comp 46-spoke lacing.
I'll do the spoke wrapping later.
A customer brought in a rear wheel built with a Kinrin (Japanese rim brand) XR200 rim.
Based on the hub and spokes, I don't think it was originally meant for a Tni AL22 rim.
Novatec 482 SL hub (basically equivalent to Evo hub or the original design)
24H, pillar-pattern slitted holes, flat black spokes, 40-spoke lacing.
The freewheel side was tensioned pretty tightly,
but there was still a significant left-right difference in deformation compared to the non-freewheel side.
At this phase angle, the rim is slightly offset toward the non-freewheel side, but it happened to coincide with where runout was present—there were also phases where it looked perfectly centered.
The non-freewheel side felt a bit loose for the spoke cross-section, so I just checked to see if it was actually shifted toward the freewheel side.
Before
After
I cleaned the hub after disassembling the wheel.
All assembled.
The rim is AL22W, as mentioned in the title.
Black semi-comp 46-spoke lacing.
I'll do the spoke wrapping later.