Today it's wheels again (and so on).
I built a rear wheel in double-sided fixed gear configuration
using a BLB (Brick Lane Bikes) hub and
a Nomu Lab Wheel #5 rim.
Spoked with all-black Campagnolo 88 JIS lacing
with blue aluminum nipples.
I'll do the lacing later.
Of course it'll be fully cross-laced on both sides.
The over-locknut dimension is 135mm, but
the position of the small cog mounting surface is determined
relative to the hub end, so compared to a 120mm-width double-sided hub,
there's an extra 15mm of space available in the flange width.
Since I basically used all of that extra space,
the flanges are quite wide.
↑This is an unrelated hub to today's rear wheel,
but it's a 100mm-width quick-release front hub for rim brakes,
designed to maximize the proportion of flange width
within the over-locknut dimension as much as possible.
The BLB hub from this project has a flange width
just 1mm narrower than this front hub—they're pretty much the same.
The center of the hub shell is bulged outward
because they wanted to engrave the BLB logo,
but in the deepest parts it's actually carved down
below the original outer diameter of the hub shell.
The title says "KING hub" because
this hub's model name is KING.
It has no relation to Chris King hubs
or its predecessor, the King hub.
↑For reference, here's a picture of a King hub (the red one on the right).
It was one of my personal possessions, but an acquaintance pestered me so much
to sell it to them that I reluctantly did, so it's no longer in my possession.
I built a rear wheel in double-sided fixed gear configuration
using a BLB (Brick Lane Bikes) hub and
a Nomu Lab Wheel #5 rim.
Spoked with all-black Campagnolo 88 JIS lacing
with blue aluminum nipples.
I'll do the lacing later.
Of course it'll be fully cross-laced on both sides.
The over-locknut dimension is 135mm, but
the position of the small cog mounting surface is determined
relative to the hub end, so compared to a 120mm-width double-sided hub,
there's an extra 15mm of space available in the flange width.
Since I basically used all of that extra space,
the flanges are quite wide.
↑This is an unrelated hub to today's rear wheel,
but it's a 100mm-width quick-release front hub for rim brakes,
designed to maximize the proportion of flange width
within the over-locknut dimension as much as possible.
The BLB hub from this project has a flange width
just 1mm narrower than this front hub—they're pretty much the same.
The center of the hub shell is bulged outward
because they wanted to engrave the BLB logo,
but in the deepest parts it's actually carved down
below the original outer diameter of the hub shell.
The title says "KING hub" because
this hub's model name is KING.
It has no relation to Chris King hubs
or its predecessor, the King hub.
↑For reference, here's a picture of a King hub (the red one on the right).
It was one of my personal possessions, but an acquaintance pestered me so much
to sell it to them that I reluctantly did, so it's no longer in my possession.