Another wheel day (and so on...).
Following the front wheel, I'm rebuilding the rear wheel on the Alpinist as well.
It's a 24-hole rim with 16+8H, but it had some rim dish.
In the image above, the bottom is the freewheel side, and
from left to right in the image it's right-right-left dishing, but
since the right has no dishing, it's more like center-center-left.
↑Freewheel side hole
It's not dished to the right, but centered on the rim ridge
↑Non-freewheel side hole
Dished to the left from the rim ridge
...If this weren't the case, I was planning to rebuild it as 12+12 24H with a Tni revo freewheel hub.
With this amount of rim dish, I could ignore it
and force an equal-sided build, but
if I did that, I'd have more confidence in building a wheel that actually works
than reusing the hub and rebuilding it.
Also, if I did that,
since DT's freewheel body places the sprocket set further outward than Shimano's OEM freewheel body,
if I were to swap it with another Roval rear wheel,
I might need to readjust the derailleur.
The freewheel body was a Ratchet EXP model, and
the internals were Ratchet EXP as well.
Got it built.
Hard to tell from this angle, but
I've got the non-freewheel side as black CX Sprint Straight spokes.
Actual measured weight of the rear wheel before rebuilding.
I'd already peeled off the rim tape, so
I measured that separately.
From the CLX50 the other day through to the front wheel on the Alpinist CLX,
the OEM rim tape was consistently 8g, but
this time's rim tape shows 8g in the image,
though it sometimes swings to 9g, so I thought it might be "8g leaning toward 9g,"
and when I remeasured it on a scale with 0.1g precision,
it came out to 8.2g.
When I wrote about the Alpinist front wheel
that there were two weights listed on the manufacturer's site,
for the rear wheel that became
Weight: approx. 686g (rear), approx. 1248g (wheelset)
Weight: 686g
—the weights are the same.
This is on the manufacturer's site; on their online shop site
only the latter weight is listed.
The front wheel's stated weight is
Weight: approx. 532g (front), approx. 1248g (wheelset)
Weight: 562g
Now, 532g plus 686g only adds up to 1218g, not 1248g, so
the actual front wheel weight is 562g, and 532g was a typo. That was the real story.
I'll add a note saying "correction in next post" to the previous article.
For the Alpinist CLX,
summarizing the actual measured weights minus the 8g rim tape against the stated weights:
Actual weight: 551 + 682 = 1233g
Stated weight: 562 + 686 = 1248g
As for the rim's actual measured weight, front and rear are about the same,
and like the CLX50 etc., I'm noticing a trend of minimal variation between individual units.
For the Alpinist CLX though, I only have two samples.
What's that? You want me to tell you the specific weights?
There's no way some decent site would give that away for free.
What kind of nonsense are you talking in your sleep?
It's getting cold out there—wrap yourself up warm and get some sleep so you don't catch a cold.
↑Whoa, what a jerk this guy is!
Sorry for the wait!Currently fleeing from the thought police!
Please take a look at this image!
Front rim!
Rear rim!
As you'd naturally expect, the spoke hole spacing is different!
↑Cut it out!
Following the front wheel, I'm rebuilding the rear wheel on the Alpinist as well.
It's a 24-hole rim with 16+8H, but it had some rim dish.
In the image above, the bottom is the freewheel side, and
from left to right in the image it's right-right-left dishing, but
since the right has no dishing, it's more like center-center-left.
↑Freewheel side hole
It's not dished to the right, but centered on the rim ridge
↑Non-freewheel side hole
Dished to the left from the rim ridge
...If this weren't the case, I was planning to rebuild it as 12+12 24H with a Tni revo freewheel hub.
With this amount of rim dish, I could ignore it
and force an equal-sided build, but
if I did that, I'd have more confidence in building a wheel that actually works
than reusing the hub and rebuilding it.
Also, if I did that,
since DT's freewheel body places the sprocket set further outward than Shimano's OEM freewheel body,
if I were to swap it with another Roval rear wheel,
I might need to readjust the derailleur.
The freewheel body was a Ratchet EXP model, and
the internals were Ratchet EXP as well.
Got it built.
Hard to tell from this angle, but
I've got the non-freewheel side as black CX Sprint Straight spokes.
Actual measured weight of the rear wheel before rebuilding.
I'd already peeled off the rim tape, so
I measured that separately.
From the CLX50 the other day through to the front wheel on the Alpinist CLX,
the OEM rim tape was consistently 8g, but
this time's rim tape shows 8g in the image,
though it sometimes swings to 9g, so I thought it might be "8g leaning toward 9g,"
and when I remeasured it on a scale with 0.1g precision,
it came out to 8.2g.
When I wrote about the Alpinist front wheel
that there were two weights listed on the manufacturer's site,
for the rear wheel that became
Weight: approx. 686g (rear), approx. 1248g (wheelset)
Weight: 686g
—the weights are the same.
This is on the manufacturer's site; on their online shop site
only the latter weight is listed.
The front wheel's stated weight is
Weight: approx. 532g (front), approx. 1248g (wheelset)
Weight: 562g
Now, 532g plus 686g only adds up to 1218g, not 1248g, so
the actual front wheel weight is 562g, and 532g was a typo. That was the real story.
I'll add a note saying "correction in next post" to the previous article.
For the Alpinist CLX,
summarizing the actual measured weights minus the 8g rim tape against the stated weights:
Actual weight: 551 + 682 = 1233g
Stated weight: 562 + 686 = 1248g
As for the rim's actual measured weight, front and rear are about the same,
and like the CLX50 etc., I'm noticing a trend of minimal variation between individual units.
For the Alpinist CLX though, I only have two samples.
What's that? You want me to tell you the specific weights?
There's no way some decent site would give that away for free.
What kind of nonsense are you talking in your sleep?
It's getting cold out there—wrap yourself up warm and get some sleep so you don't catch a cold.
↑Whoa, what a jerk this guy is!
Sorry for the wait!
Please take a look at this image!
Front rim!
Rear rim!
As you'd naturally expect, the spoke hole spacing is different!
↑Cut it out!