Today it's wheels again (and so on).
I took in the Nomu Lab Wheel No. 1 for a rebuild.
Before the rebuild, it was all Campagnolo 46-spoke laced.
The customer bought a PowerTap hub, so
they want me to build it with the current rear rim and this hub.
Either way, we can't reuse the spokes (or rather, shouldn't),
so there will be spoke costs, but if they cover the extra rim cost of ¥4,200,
we can build a new PowerTap rear wheel without disassembling the current No. 1 rear wheel—that's the math.
But since they don't want extra wheels piling up at home, we went with the rebuild instead.
Cycling is an expensive hobby, so
in many households it's seen as something of a villain, not really welcomed.
The time spent on family duties during days off getting eaten up by training or racing,
and worries about injury—those are reasons often cited.
When your wife has no interest in bike components and no knowledge of them either,
if the hub is a similar color and the wheel gets rebuilt
and the number of wheels doesn't change, she might not notice,
and you avoid getting yelled at with "You spent money on something stupid again!"—
I shouldn't make such cynical assumptions. ←But that's exactly what's happening
Leaving aside these touching tales probably unfolding all across the country,
the wheel got built.
There's one change.
The spokes on the non-freewheel side only are now CX-RAY—a semi-competition build.
I took in the Nomu Lab Wheel No. 1 for a rebuild.
Before the rebuild, it was all Campagnolo 46-spoke laced.
The customer bought a PowerTap hub, so
they want me to build it with the current rear rim and this hub.
Either way, we can't reuse the spokes (or rather, shouldn't),
so there will be spoke costs, but if they cover the extra rim cost of ¥4,200,
we can build a new PowerTap rear wheel without disassembling the current No. 1 rear wheel—that's the math.
But since they don't want extra wheels piling up at home, we went with the rebuild instead.
Cycling is an expensive hobby, so
in many households it's seen as something of a villain, not really welcomed.
The time spent on family duties during days off getting eaten up by training or racing,
and worries about injury—those are reasons often cited.
When your wife has no interest in bike components and no knowledge of them either,
if the hub is a similar color and the wheel gets rebuilt
and the number of wheels doesn't change, she might not notice,
and you avoid getting yelled at with "You spent money on something stupid again!"—
I shouldn't make such cynical assumptions. ←But that's exactly what's happening
Leaving aside these touching tales probably unfolding all across the country,
the wheel got built.
There's one change.
The spokes on the non-freewheel side only are now CX-RAY—a semi-competition build.