Another wheel day today (and so on...).
A customer brought me the front wheel from a CLX50.
According to the customer, with their GIANT TCR (rim brake model) equipped with Nomu Lab Wheel #1,
they can enter a certain corner on their usual practice course descent at 56 kph and still make the turn.
But they know from data that with a Specialized VENGE (disc brake model) paired with Nomu Lab Wheel #8,
they can enter the corner at 53 kph.
With this CLX50 that apparently came as a bonus with the VENGE,
they start to drift wide on corners and can't attack it the same way.
When they brake, they feel the front wheel wobble (getting all wibbly),
and it's scary, so they asked me to rebuild it.
To be clear, I didn't ask the customer to say anything bad about Roval in their report.
It was dead-center perfect with almost no runout,
but it did seem to be an individual with slightly loose spoke tension out of the box.
That said, even if I just tightened it up from there, it wouldn't transform into anything special.
Since it's a CLX, all the spokes are Aero Lite.
The 14 spokes on the high spoke count side will be reused as-is.
If I'm just swapping the 7 spokes on the low spoke count side to CX Sprint,
I can technically do it without peeling off the rim tape.
I could manage the rebuild by holding only the square on the inner side without grabbing the hex on the outer side.
But doing a full disassembly always results in a wheel build that feels better,
so this time I went with a complete teardown and rebuild.
All built up.
I've got CX Sprint spokes on the low spoke count side,
but it's hard to tell from this angle.
I'll do the spoke tie-in later.
A customer brought me the front wheel from a CLX50.
According to the customer, with their GIANT TCR (rim brake model) equipped with Nomu Lab Wheel #1,
they can enter a certain corner on their usual practice course descent at 56 kph and still make the turn.
But they know from data that with a Specialized VENGE (disc brake model) paired with Nomu Lab Wheel #8,
they can enter the corner at 53 kph.
With this CLX50 that apparently came as a bonus with the VENGE,
they start to drift wide on corners and can't attack it the same way.
When they brake, they feel the front wheel wobble (getting all wibbly),
and it's scary, so they asked me to rebuild it.
To be clear, I didn't ask the customer to say anything bad about Roval in their report.
It was dead-center perfect with almost no runout,
but it did seem to be an individual with slightly loose spoke tension out of the box.
That said, even if I just tightened it up from there, it wouldn't transform into anything special.
Since it's a CLX, all the spokes are Aero Lite.
The 14 spokes on the high spoke count side will be reused as-is.
If I'm just swapping the 7 spokes on the low spoke count side to CX Sprint,
I can technically do it without peeling off the rim tape.
I could manage the rebuild by holding only the square on the inner side without grabbing the hex on the outer side.
But doing a full disassembly always results in a wheel build that feels better,
so this time I went with a complete teardown and rebuild.
All built up.
I've got CX Sprint spokes on the low spoke count side,
but it's hard to tell from this angle.
I'll do the spoke tie-in later.