Another wheel day (and so on).
A customer brought in the rear wheel from a Nomu Lab Wheel No. 5 for repair.
A scooter had apparently hit it from the side while it was parked,
and the rim was clearly bent like a potato chip.
↑You can see the distortion even in this state.
There was no way to fix it with truing, so
Transferring the rim...
All built up.
One spoke on the non-freewheel side needed replacement,
and since the spokes were laced, I replaced the final crossing pair—two spokes together—
and relaced them.
Before the rebuild, it was a semi-comp 46-hole lace with spoke ties,
silver spokes and silver nipples,
but at the customer's request I went with a rainbow pattern (VAS lacing).
I reused the rim tape.
In the image above, the side without the rim tape is the original rim, but
when you align it perfectly at one point,
on the opposite side it separates by about this much.
A customer brought in the rear wheel from a Nomu Lab Wheel No. 5 for repair.
A scooter had apparently hit it from the side while it was parked,
and the rim was clearly bent like a potato chip.
↑You can see the distortion even in this state.
There was no way to fix it with truing, so
Transferring the rim...
All built up.
One spoke on the non-freewheel side needed replacement,
and since the spokes were laced, I replaced the final crossing pair—two spokes together—
and relaced them.
Before the rebuild, it was a semi-comp 46-hole lace with spoke ties,
silver spokes and silver nipples,
but at the customer's request I went with a rainbow pattern (VAS lacing).
I reused the rim tape.
In the image above, the side without the rim tape is the original rim, but
when you align it perfectly at one point,
on the opposite side it separates by about this much.