Another wheel day (and so on).
A customer brought in a rear wheel with a Prime 50mm high
tubeless-ready rim for servicing.
It has a disc brake rear hub, and
from the anodize color of the hub axle
I can't hide that it's a Novatech hub,
though I'm not particularly trying to hide it anyway. The right side of the image above is a Tni (Tni Evo disc hub) 142mm through-axle specification,
while the hub axle in the previous image is the same thing in
135mm quick-release specification. These types of adapters don't come in 130mm width,
and indeed this rear hub is also 135mm width, but
(timeline's jumbled, so just the rim alone)
The rim had brake marks on it. With no defined braking zone, the logo on the outer edge is worn away. Was this used in cyclocross with cantilever brakes?
The customer wants the wheel laced with a final cross pattern,
but this rear wheel also doesn't have the final crossing woven only on the non-drive side,
so as it is, I can't do that lacing pattern.
Anyway, this happens with Sapim too,
the black spokes on the drive side are deep and glossy, but
the black on the non-drive side is slightly lighter. With Sapim, CX Sprint tends to have a darker, glossier color than CX-RAY,
so I thought this might be a left-right different-size build of Aero Comp/Aero Lite,
but both sides turned out to be Aero Lite.
↑Again jumping the timeline, but here's the state after taking it apart. The spokes stacked on top are from the drive side.
↑Here I've removed 6 of the 12 non-drive side spokes from the outer flange holes. From here, I could just thread the spokes back in with a final cross pattern,
but I thought it better to take apart all the remaining 18 spokes as well to get better tension,
so I decided to do a complete rebuild.
Built it up.
Novatech straight-pull spoke hub, 24H,
all-black Aero Lite straight spokes, forced left-right 2-cross lacing. I could have used black CX Sprint on the drive side,
but the final cross lacing should sort it out, so I went ahead and rebuilt it as is. I'll do the final cross lacing later.
The 85mm high rim rear wheel from the other day was laced with black Squorx nipples,
but this wheel, despite having grip area on the outer edge,
was laced with 3.2mm hex nipples. This wheel isn't built with different sizes left and right, and
based on the logos on the rim, I'd say it's from an earlier model year.
By the way, completely disassembling the wheel means
I measured the actual weight of the rim,
but this time I'll just present photographic evidence of the disassembly. Actually, why should I have to tell you anyway. ↑Ugh, that guy's got a bad attitude
↓crab laser
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（Ｖ） eyes eyes （Ｖ）
Sorry for the wait!
Please take a look at this image!
↑Stop it!
A customer brought in a rear wheel with a Prime 50mm high
tubeless-ready rim for servicing.
It has a disc brake rear hub, and
from the anodize color of the hub axle
I can't hide that it's a Novatech hub,
though I'm not particularly trying to hide it anyway. The right side of the image above is a Tni (Tni Evo disc hub) 142mm through-axle specification,
while the hub axle in the previous image is the same thing in
135mm quick-release specification. These types of adapters don't come in 130mm width,
and indeed this rear hub is also 135mm width, but
(timeline's jumbled, so just the rim alone)
The rim had brake marks on it. With no defined braking zone, the logo on the outer edge is worn away. Was this used in cyclocross with cantilever brakes?
The customer wants the wheel laced with a final cross pattern,
but this rear wheel also doesn't have the final crossing woven only on the non-drive side,
so as it is, I can't do that lacing pattern.
Anyway, this happens with Sapim too,
the black spokes on the drive side are deep and glossy, but
the black on the non-drive side is slightly lighter. With Sapim, CX Sprint tends to have a darker, glossier color than CX-RAY,
so I thought this might be a left-right different-size build of Aero Comp/Aero Lite,
but both sides turned out to be Aero Lite.
↑Again jumping the timeline, but here's the state after taking it apart. The spokes stacked on top are from the drive side.
↑Here I've removed 6 of the 12 non-drive side spokes from the outer flange holes. From here, I could just thread the spokes back in with a final cross pattern,
but I thought it better to take apart all the remaining 18 spokes as well to get better tension,
so I decided to do a complete rebuild.
Built it up.
Novatech straight-pull spoke hub, 24H,
all-black Aero Lite straight spokes, forced left-right 2-cross lacing. I could have used black CX Sprint on the drive side,
but the final cross lacing should sort it out, so I went ahead and rebuilt it as is. I'll do the final cross lacing later.
The 85mm high rim rear wheel from the other day was laced with black Squorx nipples,
but this wheel, despite having grip area on the outer edge,
was laced with 3.2mm hex nipples. This wheel isn't built with different sizes left and right, and
based on the logos on the rim, I'd say it's from an earlier model year.
By the way, completely disassembling the wheel means
I measured the actual weight of the rim,
but this time I'll just present photographic evidence of the disassembly. Actually, why should I have to tell you anyway. ↑Ugh, that guy's got a bad attitude
↓crab laser
＝＝〇＝＝〇
（Ｖ） eyes eyes （Ｖ）
Sorry for the wait!
Please take a look at this image!
↑Stop it!