Another wheel day (et cetera).
Built a rear wheel using an H PLUS SON (Japanese rim manufacturer) triangular section polished WO rim and
a Gran Compe (Japanese component brand) dual-threaded fixed gear hub.
Gran Compe II hub, 32H, fully laced in JIS competition pattern.
I'll do the truing later.
The hub isn't brand new—there were traces of previous JIS lacing,
so I followed that pattern when threading the spokes.
There's deformation on the hub flange holes from the previous spoke shoulder marks,
and it feels wrong to place another spoke shoulder right on top of that.
If I offset the flange holes by one position,
every hole would end up with spoke marks, which also seems odd.
The hub body had no reference marks like logos or printed text
visible when looking through the valve hole.
If there had been such marks, and the previous wheel
had aligned the valve hole with the hub body phase,
then on the next wheel I wouldn't be able to offset the hub flange shoulder marks.
Silver spokes with black aluminum nipples—
that was the customer's preference, but
it matches the black lettering on the rim sticker.
This sticker is the only reference for rim left and right orientation, but
↑cog mounting marks present
↑no mounting marks
Although the hub has no clear left/right reference,
I built the wheel treating the side that previously had the cog mounted
as the right side.
Built a rear wheel using an H PLUS SON (Japanese rim manufacturer) triangular section polished WO rim and
a Gran Compe (Japanese component brand) dual-threaded fixed gear hub.
Gran Compe II hub, 32H, fully laced in JIS competition pattern.
I'll do the truing later.
The hub isn't brand new—there were traces of previous JIS lacing,
so I followed that pattern when threading the spokes.
There's deformation on the hub flange holes from the previous spoke shoulder marks,
and it feels wrong to place another spoke shoulder right on top of that.
If I offset the flange holes by one position,
every hole would end up with spoke marks, which also seems odd.
The hub body had no reference marks like logos or printed text
visible when looking through the valve hole.
If there had been such marks, and the previous wheel
had aligned the valve hole with the hub body phase,
then on the next wheel I wouldn't be able to offset the hub flange shoulder marks.
Silver spokes with black aluminum nipples—
that was the customer's preference, but
it matches the black lettering on the rim sticker.
This sticker is the only reference for rim left and right orientation, but
↑cog mounting marks present
↑no mounting marks
Although the hub has no clear left/right reference,
I built the wheel treating the side that previously had the cog mounted
as the right side.