Another wheel day (and so on).
I built a front wheel with rims from Xiamen (Xiamen).
Xiamen is a place name, and in Japan it's commonly
referred to as the city of Amoy (厦門).
When you search for "xiamen rims"
you get the domain carbonalbike.com,
and you can find the website of the manufacturer
Carbonal (creating rims under the Carbonal brand)
Xiamen Carbonal Composite Technology Co., Ltd.
If you search further with "厦门碳帝复合材料科技有限公司"
you'll find carbonking.com at the top, though the page isn't accessible,
but the company overview on the carbonalbike.com site
also has the Carbonking logo plate on it,
so there's clearly some relationship between them.
This rim is 42mm tall and
a tubeless rim type with no holes on the outer edge
except for the valve hole.
The rim holes and rim shape are offset.
↑The reason I'm describing it this way is that
while the rim shape itself is that of an offset rim,
the rim holes are drilled in the center, and in terms of spoke characteristics
it's no different from a non-offset rim.
There are examples like Mavic's Open Pro Disc rim, for instance.
REVO disc hub 24H (radial spokes only)
All-black CX-RAY 64-spoke reverse Italian 3-cross lacing.
I would've preferred half-CX sprint,
but if the delivery time dragged on, both sides were supposed to be laced with CX-RAY.
Even though it's an offset rim, the right side (non-rotor bracket side)
felt a bit loose, so I ended up lacing both sides completely.
What a hassle.
Out of the 6 final crossings on each side, I could pre-tie 5 of them
and leave 1 unlaced to show the left-right difference,
which might actually work out fine.
I built a front wheel with rims from Xiamen (Xiamen).
Xiamen is a place name, and in Japan it's commonly
referred to as the city of Amoy (厦門).
When you search for "xiamen rims"
you get the domain carbonalbike.com,
and you can find the website of the manufacturer
Carbonal (creating rims under the Carbonal brand)
Xiamen Carbonal Composite Technology Co., Ltd.
If you search further with "厦门碳帝复合材料科技有限公司"
you'll find carbonking.com at the top, though the page isn't accessible,
but the company overview on the carbonalbike.com site
also has the Carbonking logo plate on it,
so there's clearly some relationship between them.
This rim is 42mm tall and
a tubeless rim type with no holes on the outer edge
except for the valve hole.
The rim holes and rim shape are offset.
↑The reason I'm describing it this way is that
while the rim shape itself is that of an offset rim,
the rim holes are drilled in the center, and in terms of spoke characteristics
it's no different from a non-offset rim.
There are examples like Mavic's Open Pro Disc rim, for instance.
REVO disc hub 24H (radial spokes only)
All-black CX-RAY 64-spoke reverse Italian 3-cross lacing.
I would've preferred half-CX sprint,
but if the delivery time dragged on, both sides were supposed to be laced with CX-RAY.
Even though it's an offset rim, the right side (non-rotor bracket side)
felt a bit loose, so I ended up lacing both sides completely.
Out of the 6 final crossings on each side, I could pre-tie 5 of them
and leave 1 unlaced to show the left-right difference,
which might actually work out fine.