Another day with wheels (details omitted).
A customer left me both front and rear wheels from a Zonda.
In the image above, I've arranged them side by side
with the front and rear wheels aligned in phase according to a certain condition.
That condition being the phase at the top:
↑Front wheel
↑Rear wheel
I aligned where the bead hooks are crushed up.
When the title says "crushed by buckling,"
it means both front and rear wheels are affected.
So I'm replacing the rims,
and today I'm doing the rear wheel.
The image above shows the new rim.
Of the rim holes on the G3, the two on the freewheel side
have virtually no spoke offset,
but the one on the non-freewheel side
has a clear lateral spoke offset.
This rim has no holes on the outer circumference other than the valve hole,
but strictly speaking, there is one more hole with no functional purpose.
It's the small hole in the image above,
↑This one near the valve hole.
I'm not sure what it's for, but it seems necessary for the manufacturing process.
In the case of 2WAY-FIT (tubeless) rims,
they deliberately plug this hole.
I think they could share that plugging process with 2WAY-FIT rims too.
Got it built up.
The difference between Eurus (after aluminum nipple conversion)
and Shamal Ultra is in the hub shell material and bearing specs—
they share the same rim.
So Eurus/Shamal Ultra rims come without decals
and are sold separately.
In contrast, Zonda rims are
unique to Zonda and don't share specs with other models,
so the spare rim comes with decals pre-applied from the factory.
The fact that it's different means the generation is different,
In replacing the rim, it's gone from a C15 narrow rim
to a C17 wide rim,
not because C15 rims are no longer available,
but because the customer wanted to go wider while replacing the rim.
A customer left me both front and rear wheels from a Zonda.
In the image above, I've arranged them side by side
with the front and rear wheels aligned in phase according to a certain condition.
That condition being the phase at the top:
↑Front wheel
↑Rear wheel
I aligned where the bead hooks are crushed up.
When the title says "crushed by buckling,"
it means both front and rear wheels are affected.
So I'm replacing the rims,
and today I'm doing the rear wheel.
The image above shows the new rim.
Of the rim holes on the G3, the two on the freewheel side
have virtually no spoke offset,
but the one on the non-freewheel side
has a clear lateral spoke offset.
This rim has no holes on the outer circumference other than the valve hole,
but strictly speaking, there is one more hole with no functional purpose.
It's the small hole in the image above,
↑This one near the valve hole.
I'm not sure what it's for, but it seems necessary for the manufacturing process.
In the case of 2WAY-FIT (tubeless) rims,
they deliberately plug this hole.
I think they could share that plugging process with 2WAY-FIT rims too.
Got it built up.
The difference between Eurus (after aluminum nipple conversion)
and Shamal Ultra is in the hub shell material and bearing specs—
they share the same rim.
So Eurus/Shamal Ultra rims come without decals
and are sold separately.
In contrast, Zonda rims are
unique to Zonda and don't share specs with other models,
so the spare rim comes with decals pre-applied from the factory.
The fact that it's different means the generation is different,
In replacing the rim, it's gone from a C15 narrow rim
to a C17 wide rim,
not because C15 rims are no longer available,
but because the customer wanted to go wider while replacing the rim.