Another wheel day (details omitted).
A while back I built a fixed gear rear wheel with a BLB KING hub,
and today I built its match—the front wheel.
When the customer brought it in,
the rear hub didn't come in a KING box,
but the front hub came in a proper box.
Built it.
The rim is from a Nōmu Lab Wheel No. 5.
BLB KING hub, 32-hole black all-competition Italian 8-spoke laced.
Since the flange hole diameter matched the rear hub,
I went with 8-spoke like the rear wheel.
If it had been a smaller flange, I would've done 6-spoke instead.
The front wheel isn't a drive wheel and uses 100mm hub width, so technically
it could work on a road bike too. But realistically,
a bolt-on hub without quick-release would never be used on a road bike,
so I'm confident calling it a fixed gear front wheel.
That said, the rear hub was 135mm width, not 120mm,
so I figure they're building a fixed-gear single-speed bike
on a cyclocross frame.
Blue aluminum nipples.
Spoke tension truing comes later.
A while back I built a fixed gear rear wheel with a BLB KING hub,
and today I built its match—the front wheel.
When the customer brought it in,
the rear hub didn't come in a KING box,
but the front hub came in a proper box.
Built it.
The rim is from a Nōmu Lab Wheel No. 5.
BLB KING hub, 32-hole black all-competition Italian 8-spoke laced.
Since the flange hole diameter matched the rear hub,
I went with 8-spoke like the rear wheel.
If it had been a smaller flange, I would've done 6-spoke instead.
The front wheel isn't a drive wheel and uses 100mm hub width, so technically
it could work on a road bike too. But realistically,
a bolt-on hub without quick-release would never be used on a road bike,
so I'm confident calling it a fixed gear front wheel.
That said, the rear hub was 135mm width, not 120mm,
so I figure they're building a fixed-gear single-speed bike
on a cyclocross frame.
Blue aluminum nipples.
Spoke tension truing comes later.