Another day working on wheels (and so on...).
I built the rear wheel for Nomu Lab Wheel No. 1.
It's an Evolite hub, 24H, with a semi-comp 4-cross lacing pattern.
I'll do the spoke truing later.
The freebody is for Campagnolo,
but this is from an earlier generation of the Evo hub, which was the predecessor to the Evolite hub.
The Tni Evolution rear hub, if it has a Shimano 10-speed freebody,
would be equivalent to what Novatech calls the 482 hub,
and if it's a Campagnolo freebody hub, it would be the 582 hub.
↑This is the hub shell for the 482SL, which corresponds to the Evolution Lite hub,
but if this model originally came with a Campagnolo freebody,
the "482" marking on the hub shell would instead read "582".
The 482 or 582 hubs, which correspond to the Evo hub,
originally came with 10mm outer diameter steel hub axles,
but later got a minor update to 15mm outer diameter aluminum axles.
Also, for Shimano freeodies, there is no Shimano 11-speed freebody
that corresponds to the 10mm axle.
The 482SL and 582SL rear hubs, which correspond to the Evolite hub,
are barely different from the later-generation 482 and 582 hubs.
The main change is lightening holes added to flanges other than 32H.
With the corresponding front hub, the 291→291SL,
bearing size was reduced and the end changed from threaded to press-fit,
resulting in about 25g weight savings.
Going from 85g→60g is quite significant proportionally
(you could say it got 30% lighter!).
↑This is a Campagnolo freebody from the early Evo hub era.
Campagnolo first introduced the freebody-type rear hub at 8-speed,
but when they moved to 9-speed, they changed the spline to be incompatible with 8-speed.
This was around the time complete wheels were starting to circulate,
and there was the Shamal wheel for 8-speed,
but they released an upgrade kit to convert it to 9-speed as a salvage measure.
So Campagnolo's divisions are 8-speed, or 9/10/11/12-speed.
Unlike Shimano, there's no discontinuity between 10-speed and 11-speed, so
if you swap out the 10mm inner diameter bearing
with one that has the same outer diameter but 15mm inner diameter,
you can convert it to a freebody that works with Evolite hubs for 11 or 12-speed.
The reason for this tedious conversion is that currently,
neither Tni nor Novatech has Campagnolo freeodies in stock.
Sensing this situation, even our shop, which had been stockpiling—er, collecting them,
is now out of inventory.
And before I could even finish saying that, the Evolite hubs themselves disappeared too.
In the middle of swapping bearings...
I said you can adapt it to the Evolite hub by changing the bearings,
but I didn't say bearing swap "alone" would do it.
A 15mm inner diameter bearing with the same outer diameter as the original 10mm inner bearing does exist,
but they have different thicknesses.
So the spacer width needed between the two bearings is different too.
Beyond that, there's one more spot that requires some annoying machining.
The boxed freebody shown earlier and the freebody for Nomu Lab Wheel No. 1's rear wheel are different items.
The number of Evolite hubs in our stock that we can adapt to a Campagnolo freebody
matches the backlog of Campagnolo rear wheel orders,
so we cannot accept new orders at this time.
I built the rear wheel for Nomu Lab Wheel No. 1.
It's an Evolite hub, 24H, with a semi-comp 4-cross lacing pattern.
I'll do the spoke truing later.
The freebody is for Campagnolo,
but this is from an earlier generation of the Evo hub, which was the predecessor to the Evolite hub.
The Tni Evolution rear hub, if it has a Shimano 10-speed freebody,
would be equivalent to what Novatech calls the 482 hub,
and if it's a Campagnolo freebody hub, it would be the 582 hub.
↑This is the hub shell for the 482SL, which corresponds to the Evolution Lite hub,
but if this model originally came with a Campagnolo freebody,
the "482" marking on the hub shell would instead read "582".
The 482 or 582 hubs, which correspond to the Evo hub,
originally came with 10mm outer diameter steel hub axles,
but later got a minor update to 15mm outer diameter aluminum axles.
Also, for Shimano freeodies, there is no Shimano 11-speed freebody
that corresponds to the 10mm axle.
The 482SL and 582SL rear hubs, which correspond to the Evolite hub,
are barely different from the later-generation 482 and 582 hubs.
The main change is lightening holes added to flanges other than 32H.
With the corresponding front hub, the 291→291SL,
bearing size was reduced and the end changed from threaded to press-fit,
resulting in about 25g weight savings.
Going from 85g→60g is quite significant proportionally
(you could say it got 30% lighter!).
↑This is a Campagnolo freebody from the early Evo hub era.
Campagnolo first introduced the freebody-type rear hub at 8-speed,
but when they moved to 9-speed, they changed the spline to be incompatible with 8-speed.
This was around the time complete wheels were starting to circulate,
and there was the Shamal wheel for 8-speed,
but they released an upgrade kit to convert it to 9-speed as a salvage measure.
So Campagnolo's divisions are 8-speed, or 9/10/11/12-speed.
Unlike Shimano, there's no discontinuity between 10-speed and 11-speed, so
if you swap out the 10mm inner diameter bearing
with one that has the same outer diameter but 15mm inner diameter,
you can convert it to a freebody that works with Evolite hubs for 11 or 12-speed.
The reason for this tedious conversion is that currently,
neither Tni nor Novatech has Campagnolo freeodies in stock.
Sensing this situation, even our shop, which had been stockpiling—er, collecting them,
is now out of inventory.
And before I could even finish saying that, the Evolite hubs themselves disappeared too.
In the middle of swapping bearings...
I said you can adapt it to the Evolite hub by changing the bearings,
but I didn't say bearing swap "alone" would do it.
A 15mm inner diameter bearing with the same outer diameter as the original 10mm inner bearing does exist,
but they have different thicknesses.
So the spacer width needed between the two bearings is different too.
Beyond that, there's one more spot that requires some annoying machining.
The boxed freebody shown earlier and the freebody for Nomu Lab Wheel No. 1's rear wheel are different items.
The number of Evolite hubs in our stock that we can adapt to a Campagnolo freebody
matches the backlog of Campagnolo rear wheel orders,
so we cannot accept new orders at this time.