Wheels again today (details omitted).
A customer brought in the front wheel of a CLX40.
They also left the rear wheel, which is actually the main job,
but since the front wheel was laced with round spokes, I rebuilt it too.
This is a Roval (internal nipple version) from back in the day.
It's CLX, not CL (or whether CL even existed in this era is questionable).
Laced with round butted spokes.
DT Competition Race, so the dimensions are 2.0–1.6–2.0mm,
depending on tension, this diameter can develop wobble.
If they had been aero spokes,
even if they were aero-lite with lighter spoke weight than this,
I would've just done a re-tension and inspection, but
The tension was a bit slack, so I decided to replace the spokes and rebuild.
The spoke heads aren't machined into a sliced king oyster mushroom shape.
With round spokes, even if they rotate, you can't tell visually,
so there's no problem.
Original state—there was rim offset.
In the image above it's about two sheets of paper,
but at another angle before shooting, it was off by quite a bit more.
There must be runout.
Finding the angle with the biggest rim offset is a hassle,
so I went with the image above for the post.
These two images are at the same angle, both showing two rim holes.
I shot them at angles where you can see straight through each rim hole.
The important thing here is that there's clear hole offset.
The front wheel has 18 holes, so I just lace according to that,
but the rear wheel also had hole offset for 2:1 lacing.
I thought the internal nipple Roval rims had no hole offset,
but that assumption apparently goes back only to the era
with red paint flaking off like an eggshell on the hub flanges.
If the rear rim had no hole offset, it was 16+8 24 holes total,
so I was planning to rebuild with a standard 12-hole left and right hub.
But my plans got disrupted when I found out the rear wheel would need spoke ordering,
so today I rebuilt just the front wheel.
Built.
The mysterious square aero straight spokes we have steady supply of at our shop,
Roval hub, 18 holes, forced radial lacing.
No spoke head pinching, but at this tension I doubt they'll rotate at all.
I'll explain the spoke details to the customer when they pick up this wheel.
A customer brought in the front wheel of a CLX40.
They also left the rear wheel, which is actually the main job,
but since the front wheel was laced with round spokes, I rebuilt it too.
This is a Roval (internal nipple version) from back in the day.
It's CLX, not CL (or whether CL even existed in this era is questionable).
Laced with round butted spokes.
DT Competition Race, so the dimensions are 2.0–1.6–2.0mm,
depending on tension, this diameter can develop wobble.
If they had been aero spokes,
even if they were aero-lite with lighter spoke weight than this,
I would've just done a re-tension and inspection, but
The tension was a bit slack, so I decided to replace the spokes and rebuild.
The spoke heads aren't machined into a sliced king oyster mushroom shape.
With round spokes, even if they rotate, you can't tell visually,
so there's no problem.
Original state—there was rim offset.
In the image above it's about two sheets of paper,
but at another angle before shooting, it was off by quite a bit more.
There must be runout.
Finding the angle with the biggest rim offset is a hassle,
so I went with the image above for the post.
These two images are at the same angle, both showing two rim holes.
I shot them at angles where you can see straight through each rim hole.
The important thing here is that there's clear hole offset.
The front wheel has 18 holes, so I just lace according to that,
but the rear wheel also had hole offset for 2:1 lacing.
I thought the internal nipple Roval rims had no hole offset,
but that assumption apparently goes back only to the era
with red paint flaking off like an eggshell on the hub flanges.
If the rear rim had no hole offset, it was 16+8 24 holes total,
so I was planning to rebuild with a standard 12-hole left and right hub.
But my plans got disrupted when I found out the rear wheel would need spoke ordering,
so today I rebuilt just the front wheel.
Built.
The mysterious square aero straight spokes we have steady supply of at our shop,
Roval hub, 18 holes, forced radial lacing.
No spoke head pinching, but at this tension I doubt they'll rotate at all.
I'll explain the spoke details to the customer when they pick up this wheel.