Another day with wheels (and so on).
A customer dropped off a rear wheel built with a Stans CREST rim.
This was one we assembled here at the shop years ago.
This CREST with the cosmetic sticker design was from the same era
as the final version of the Iron Cross existed, and the rim
had an internal width of 21mm. The next model, CREST MK3,
has an internal width of 23mm, and the current model CREST MK4
stepped up to 25mm internal width.
The hub is an XT-grade FH-M8010,
32-hole with half-Champion lacing and spoke nipple wrapping.
The green nipples made identification easy—
it turned out to be the wheel I'd assembled exactly seven years ago (→here).
When the customer got a new frame for XC use, it turned out to be BOOST standard,
so their existing wheels wouldn't fit (←I hear this complaint pretty often these days).
They wanted me to swap out the hub and rebuild it.
Got it built.
It's the ZUTTO (Chinese brand) hub—
the P3 model in BOOST version. I built a wheel with the same hub
not too long ago (→here).
What's going on? Is this hub becoming a trend?
32-hole with half-CX Sprint 64-spoke reverse Italian lacing.
I'll do the spoke nipple wrapping later.
We're working on both front and rear CREST rim wheels,
but I decided on my own—not based on the customer's request—
to swap the rear wheel to the front and the front to the rear.
The front wheel has silver nipples, but the hub is also an M8010.
At the point in the photo above, I had two front wheels.
All the spokes are CX-RAY, which is because this wheel
was built back when CX Sprint wasn't an option yet.
I considered reusing spokes from the unwrapped side if the length matched,
but given that it was assembled seven years ago and has a history
of hard racing use, I decided to replace all the spokes with new ones.
A customer dropped off a rear wheel built with a Stans CREST rim.
This was one we assembled here at the shop years ago.
This CREST with the cosmetic sticker design was from the same era
as the final version of the Iron Cross existed, and the rim
had an internal width of 21mm. The next model, CREST MK3,
has an internal width of 23mm, and the current model CREST MK4
stepped up to 25mm internal width.
The hub is an XT-grade FH-M8010,
32-hole with half-Champion lacing and spoke nipple wrapping.
The green nipples made identification easy—
it turned out to be the wheel I'd assembled exactly seven years ago (→here).
When the customer got a new frame for XC use, it turned out to be BOOST standard,
so their existing wheels wouldn't fit (←I hear this complaint pretty often these days).
They wanted me to swap out the hub and rebuild it.
Got it built.
It's the ZUTTO (Chinese brand) hub—
the P3 model in BOOST version. I built a wheel with the same hub
not too long ago (→here).
What's going on? Is this hub becoming a trend?
32-hole with half-CX Sprint 64-spoke reverse Italian lacing.
I'll do the spoke nipple wrapping later.
We're working on both front and rear CREST rim wheels,
but I decided on my own—not based on the customer's request—
to swap the rear wheel to the front and the front to the rear.
The front wheel has silver nipples, but the hub is also an M8010.
At the point in the photo above, I had two front wheels.
All the spokes are CX-RAY, which is because this wheel
was built back when CX Sprint wasn't an option yet.
I considered reusing spokes from the unwrapped side if the length matched,
but given that it was assembled seven years ago and has a history
of hard racing use, I decided to replace all the spokes with new ones.