A customer brought in the rear wheel of a nom Lab Wheel Certified #5.
The hub is a Novatec 482, the same as the Tni Evo hub
or rather, it's the original source.
It's not an Evo Lite hub. That one uses the 482SL as its original.
This wheel originally was a nom Lab Wheel knockoff, or
a generic nom Lab Wheel, or
a fake nom Lab Wheel, and
I rebuilt it here as a black half-comp radial laced with crossing and nipple cords.
It had some runout so I corrected it.
The rim itself is the same as the nom Lab Wheel #5, and
since I was the last one to build it, I'm calling it Certified #5.
Another wheel day today (and so on).
This is the mate to the rear wheel at the top,
and it was still just a generic nom Lab Wheel #5
when the customer brought in the front wheel for rebuilding.
They said it felt sluggish and didn't roll well, so
they haven't been using the front wheel much.
291 hub, 20H, outpoke radial lacing.
The spokes are from a budget brand,
round spokes that are subtly flattened on both sides,
the kind that look like round spokes at first glance, and
they're not really what you'd call aero spokes.
The rear hubs—482 and 482SL are almost identical,
and the 482 late-model and 482SL have the same freebody specs.
The only real difference is whether the flange has lightening holes,
but the 291 and 291SL hubs are quite different from each other.
The 291SL has smaller bearings,
and the 291SL hub ends are contact-point style,
while the 291 has a hollow axle, so the relationship is threaded with the hub shaft.
↑ The paint coating on DT and Sapim black spokes
doesn't peel like this.
With radial lacing you might think
it doesn't matter what spokes you use, you just tension them up,
but this kind of paint flaking bothers me to look at, and
it was built as a reversed rim, which I wasn't happy with, so
I ended up changing the spokes and rebuilding it.
Oh, and the nipples with 3.4mm flat wrench flats
are also not great.
It looked like it had centering issues.
Well, actually it did at this point.
But as it turned out later, there was significant runout, so
there may have been more positions where it would've been judged as centered
than positions where it appeared off-center.
The initial reference point I chose happened to be
right under a section with large lateral runout.
Built.
Black CX Sprint outpoke radial lacing
with red aluminum nipples.
The hub is a Novatec 482, the same as the Tni Evo hub
or rather, it's the original source.
It's not an Evo Lite hub. That one uses the 482SL as its original.
This wheel originally was a nom Lab Wheel knockoff, or
a generic nom Lab Wheel, or
a fake nom Lab Wheel, and
I rebuilt it here as a black half-comp radial laced with crossing and nipple cords.
It had some runout so I corrected it.
The rim itself is the same as the nom Lab Wheel #5, and
since I was the last one to build it, I'm calling it Certified #5.
Another wheel day today (and so on).
This is the mate to the rear wheel at the top,
and it was still just a generic nom Lab Wheel #5
when the customer brought in the front wheel for rebuilding.
They said it felt sluggish and didn't roll well, so
they haven't been using the front wheel much.
291 hub, 20H, outpoke radial lacing.
The spokes are from a budget brand,
round spokes that are subtly flattened on both sides,
the kind that look like round spokes at first glance, and
they're not really what you'd call aero spokes.
The rear hubs—482 and 482SL are almost identical,
and the 482 late-model and 482SL have the same freebody specs.
The only real difference is whether the flange has lightening holes,
but the 291 and 291SL hubs are quite different from each other.
The 291SL has smaller bearings,
and the 291SL hub ends are contact-point style,
while the 291 has a hollow axle, so the relationship is threaded with the hub shaft.
↑ The paint coating on DT and Sapim black spokes
doesn't peel like this.
With radial lacing you might think
it doesn't matter what spokes you use, you just tension them up,
but this kind of paint flaking bothers me to look at, and
it was built as a reversed rim, which I wasn't happy with, so
I ended up changing the spokes and rebuilding it.
Oh, and the nipples with 3.4mm flat wrench flats
are also not great.
It looked like it had centering issues.
Well, actually it did at this point.
But as it turned out later, there was significant runout, so
there may have been more positions where it would've been judged as centered
than positions where it appeared off-center.
The initial reference point I chose happened to be
right under a section with large lateral runout.
Built.
Black CX Sprint outpoke radial lacing
with red aluminum nipples.