Wheels again today (and so on).
I built the rear wheel to match the 26-inch (HE) front wheel with the dynamo hub that I built the other day.
The rim and nipples are the same as the front wheel—
Araya brand TX-633 and turquoise aluminum nipples
FH-RS300 32H all-Competé pattern with no internal nipples.
The FH-RS400 hub would support 11-speed, but since the customer plans to use this with 8-speed and won't upgrade to 11-speed, I deliberately chose the FH-RS300, which is dimensionally superior in spoke offset (better than the 9000 hub).
This rim isn't an offset rim, but offset rims act directly on spoke offset, so you can feel the difference in left-right spoke tension when building the wheel. The difference between the FH-RS400 and 300 isn't as dramatic as an offset rim, but it's noticeable enough when building that the spoke offset difference is apparent.
If it had been an FH-RS400, I might have gone with Champ/Competé spokes instead of all-Competé.
Also, it seems to be an MTB-type frame, but since the rear hub's over-locknut dimension is 130mm, I built it using a road-type hub.
I built the rear wheel to match the 26-inch (HE) front wheel with the dynamo hub that I built the other day.
The rim and nipples are the same as the front wheel—
Araya brand TX-633 and turquoise aluminum nipples
FH-RS300 32H all-Competé pattern with no internal nipples.
The FH-RS400 hub would support 11-speed, but since the customer plans to use this with 8-speed and won't upgrade to 11-speed, I deliberately chose the FH-RS300, which is dimensionally superior in spoke offset (better than the 9000 hub).
This rim isn't an offset rim, but offset rims act directly on spoke offset, so you can feel the difference in left-right spoke tension when building the wheel. The difference between the FH-RS400 and 300 isn't as dramatic as an offset rim, but it's noticeable enough when building that the spoke offset difference is apparent.
If it had been an FH-RS400, I might have gone with Champ/Competé spokes instead of all-Competé.
Also, it seems to be an MTB-type frame, but since the rear hub's over-locknut dimension is 130mm, I built it using a road-type hub.