A customer brought in the rear wheel of a Nomu Lab Wheel Certified No. 5 for service.
The hub is a Novatec 482, which is the same as the Tni Evo Hub
or rather, it's the original that the Evo Hub is based on.
It's not the Evo Lite Hub. That one uses the 482SL as the original.
This wheel was originally a Nomu Lab Wheel knockoff, or
a generic Nomu Lab Wheel, or
a counterfeit Nomu Lab Wheel, but
we rebuilt it here in our shop with black half-comp radial lacing with spoke cross-over. I corrected some runout that was present.
The rim itself is the same as the Nomu Lab Wheel No. 5, and since I was the last one to build it, I'm calling it Certified No. 5.
Another day, another whee... (rest omitted).
This is the matching front wheel to the rear wheel mentioned at the start—
a generic Nomu Lab Wheel No. 5 that remained in its original state.
The customer wanted it rebuilt. He's had it for a while
because it feels sluggish and doesn't roll well,
so he hasn't been using the front wheel much.
291 hub, 20H, reverse radial lacing.
The spokes are from a cheap brand,
but they're round spokes that are very slightly flattened on both sides,
designed to look like round spokes at first glance—
not what you'd really call aero spokes.
The rear hub comparison: the 482 and 482SL are nearly identical,
and the later 482 and the 482SL even share the same freewheel body.
The only real difference is whether the flanges have lightening holes.
But the 291 and 291SL hubs are quite different from each other.
The 291SL has smaller bearings,
the 291SL hub end is a press-fit design,
while the 291 uses a hollow bolt, so there's a threaded relationship with the hub shaft.
↑The paint on DT and Sapim black spokes doesn't peel like this.
I thought that with radial lacing, you could just tension any spokes
without worrying about that detail, but
seeing this paint job peeling this way just looks depressing, and
it was laced with the rim treated as reverse, which bothered me,
so we decided to replace the spokes and rebuild it.
Oh, and another thing that wasn't ideal: the nipples had a 3.4mm hex key size,
which is also not great.
It looks like there's a center offset.
Well, actually it was offset right there.
But what I found out later was that there was significant runout,
so it's possible that the phase where centering is achieved
might be the majority of the rotation.
The first position I checked just happened to be right under a section with large lateral runout.
All built.
Black CX Sprint reverse radial lacing
with red aluminum nipples.
The hub is a Novatec 482, which is the same as the Tni Evo Hub
or rather, it's the original that the Evo Hub is based on.
It's not the Evo Lite Hub. That one uses the 482SL as the original.
This wheel was originally a Nomu Lab Wheel knockoff, or
a generic Nomu Lab Wheel, or
a counterfeit Nomu Lab Wheel, but
we rebuilt it here in our shop with black half-comp radial lacing with spoke cross-over. I corrected some runout that was present.
The rim itself is the same as the Nomu Lab Wheel No. 5, and since I was the last one to build it, I'm calling it Certified No. 5.
Another day, another whee... (rest omitted).
This is the matching front wheel to the rear wheel mentioned at the start—
a generic Nomu Lab Wheel No. 5 that remained in its original state.
The customer wanted it rebuilt. He's had it for a while
because it feels sluggish and doesn't roll well,
so he hasn't been using the front wheel much.
291 hub, 20H, reverse radial lacing.
The spokes are from a cheap brand,
but they're round spokes that are very slightly flattened on both sides,
designed to look like round spokes at first glance—
not what you'd really call aero spokes.
The rear hub comparison: the 482 and 482SL are nearly identical,
and the later 482 and the 482SL even share the same freewheel body.
The only real difference is whether the flanges have lightening holes.
But the 291 and 291SL hubs are quite different from each other.
The 291SL has smaller bearings,
the 291SL hub end is a press-fit design,
while the 291 uses a hollow bolt, so there's a threaded relationship with the hub shaft.
↑The paint on DT and Sapim black spokes doesn't peel like this.
I thought that with radial lacing, you could just tension any spokes
without worrying about that detail, but
seeing this paint job peeling this way just looks depressing, and
it was laced with the rim treated as reverse, which bothered me,
so we decided to replace the spokes and rebuild it.
Oh, and another thing that wasn't ideal: the nipples had a 3.4mm hex key size,
which is also not great.
It looks like there's a center offset.
Well, actually it was offset right there.
But what I found out later was that there was significant runout,
so it's possible that the phase where centering is achieved
might be the majority of the rotation.
The first position I checked just happened to be right under a section with large lateral runout.
All built.
Black CX Sprint reverse radial lacing
with red aluminum nipples.