Another day of wheelbuilding (and so on).
There is no IKEA in Hiroshima.
They announced plans to open a store and even secured land for it,
but it ultimately fell through and the planned construction site was sold off.
So why am I bringing this up, you ask?
A customer whose Nomu Lab Wheel #2 deadline was approaching
said they could stop by Osaka soon,
so they'd be picking up the wheel directly from Hiroshima,
and I got word the other day that they were coming on March 30th (Thursday),
so I figured I'd have until then to build it.
But I mixed up the dates—they're actually coming today,
the 28th (Monday), ahhhhhhhhh
Either way I was planning to build it around this month and next anyway,
so I have all the materials ready.
I promised to build both front and rear wheels today
and ship it tomorrow with free shipping, so
I built them.
Front wheel is a 660 hub, 20H, CX-RAY reverse spokes, radial lacing,
Rear wheel is a 660 hub, 24H, semi-comp 4-cross lacing with spoke nipples tied in.
By the way, the reason the customer came from Hiroshima was
supposedly to go to IKEA on the way,
but the IKEA they actually went to wasn't in Tsuruhama, Osaka—it was Kobe.
Apparently from Hiroshima, you have to go east to Kobe or west all the way to Fukuoka
to find an IKEA.
There is no IKEA in Hiroshima.
They announced plans to open a store and even secured land for it,
but it ultimately fell through and the planned construction site was sold off.
So why am I bringing this up, you ask?
A customer whose Nomu Lab Wheel #2 deadline was approaching
said they could stop by Osaka soon,
so they'd be picking up the wheel directly from Hiroshima,
and I got word the other day that they were coming on March 30th (Thursday),
so I figured I'd have until then to build it.
But I mixed up the dates—they're actually coming today,
the 28th (Monday), ahhhhhhhhh
Either way I was planning to build it around this month and next anyway,
so I have all the materials ready.
I promised to build both front and rear wheels today
and ship it tomorrow with free shipping, so
I built them.
Front wheel is a 660 hub, 20H, CX-RAY reverse spokes, radial lacing,
Rear wheel is a 660 hub, 24H, semi-comp 4-cross lacing with spoke nipples tied in.
By the way, the reason the customer came from Hiroshima was
supposedly to go to IKEA on the way,
but the IKEA they actually went to wasn't in Tsuruhama, Osaka—it was Kobe.
Apparently from Hiroshima, you have to go east to Kobe or west all the way to Fukuoka
to find an IKEA.