Another day of wheel work (and so on).
A customer brought in the rear wheel of a CLX50.
It was something we'd previously rebuilt at the shop.
They'd had a crash, but there was just a little wobble
that didn't seem related to the crash.
Another day of wheel work (and so on).
This time we also took in the front wheel, its counterpart.
With Rovål wheels, the rear wheel is especially problematic if it's rim-brake equipped,
and the front wheel if it's disc-brake equipped. When we rebuild
one of these problematic wheels, the flaws in the other one become apparent,
and we end up having to rebuild that one too—
this has happened many times in the past.
This case is the same.
The customer says the front wheel feels unstable, especially on descents, which is the worst.
What's with this sticker?!
There's a weight sticker on it, so the rim weight is just for reference.
What's visible behind the rim is
↑a gift I received.
I wrote an article a while back saying we should stop doing things like this.
It'll give away which prefecture it came from!
I'll gratefully accept this one,
but going forward, your kind thoughts are more than enough.
↑My track record's been pretty bad,
so someone might interpret this as "don't push, don't push!" like that hot water bathtub bit,
but I'm serious. Just to be clear.
It's built.
I rebuilt it with black CX Sprint spokes instead of the black Aero Lite.
The real problem to begin with is that it only has 16 spokes,
but if the feel is too loose, the only way to do something about it
is to increase the spoke's specific gravity.
If I just write that, someone might say "I replaced the spokes like nomulabo said,
but it actually got looser!" The thing is, the original front wheel was tensioned rock-hard for an Aero Lite,
and getting the second spoke tension to be the same or higher when rebuilding with CX Sprint spokes
turned out to be an extremely difficult task.
Maybe this front wheel was one I'd tensioned before, even if it wasn't a full rebuild? I can't remember.
A customer brought in the rear wheel of a CLX50.
It was something we'd previously rebuilt at the shop.
They'd had a crash, but there was just a little wobble
that didn't seem related to the crash.
Another day of wheel work (and so on).
This time we also took in the front wheel, its counterpart.
With Rovål wheels, the rear wheel is especially problematic if it's rim-brake equipped,
and the front wheel if it's disc-brake equipped. When we rebuild
one of these problematic wheels, the flaws in the other one become apparent,
and we end up having to rebuild that one too—
this has happened many times in the past.
This case is the same.
The customer says the front wheel feels unstable, especially on descents, which is the worst.
What's with this sticker?!
There's a weight sticker on it, so the rim weight is just for reference.
What's visible behind the rim is
↑a gift I received.
I wrote an article a while back saying we should stop doing things like this.
It'll give away which prefecture it came from!
I'll gratefully accept this one,
but going forward, your kind thoughts are more than enough.
↑My track record's been pretty bad,
so someone might interpret this as "don't push, don't push!" like that hot water bathtub bit,
but I'm serious. Just to be clear.
It's built.
I rebuilt it with black CX Sprint spokes instead of the black Aero Lite.
The real problem to begin with is that it only has 16 spokes,
but if the feel is too loose, the only way to do something about it
is to increase the spoke's specific gravity.
If I just write that, someone might say "I replaced the spokes like nomulabo said,
but it actually got looser!" The thing is, the original front wheel was tensioned rock-hard for an Aero Lite,
and getting the second spoke tension to be the same or higher when rebuilding with CX Sprint spokes
turned out to be an extremely difficult task.
Maybe this front wheel was one I'd tensioned before, even if it wasn't a full rebuild? I can't remember.