Another day of wheel building (and so on).
Continuing from yesterday.
I built the rear wheel for a cyclocross bike
with an Iron Cross rim and RS770 hub.
FH-RS770 28H black semi CX sprint
with red aluminum nipples.
I'll do the truing later.
This RS770 hub comes in 28, 32, and 36 hole versions,
but disc road 36H rims
are basically impossible to find.
When someone from the hub maker came by the shop for something,
they said "Why don't they make 24H instead?",
and I replied "I think so too."
It's not like they can't make them.
The WH-RS710, also known as 105, is basically
a 24H version of the RS770 hub as a complete wheel.
Just because they don't make a 24H hub
doesn't mean complete wheel sales go up.
The R9200 series wheels are better than
previous Shimano wheels,
but there's still plenty of room for improvement through custom building.
And conversely, even if they made a 24H hub,
complete wheel sales probably wouldn't really drop either.
There are just so few shops that actually build wheels.
This shows that disc road riders
don't all belong to a single category.
There's definitely a layer of people
who would absolutely never buy a Shimano complete wheel
（or at least never use it as-is off the shelf）
—not people who might switch to hand-built wheels
if a 24H RS770 hub came out,
but rather people who would never buy Shimano wheels in the first place anyway.
If a 24H RS770 hub did come out,
even those people might buy it,
so I really hope they make it...
Anyway, the Iron Cross rim this time was
incredibly light. It's a shame it's been discontinued.
Since it was the same hole count as another rim but with actual weight difference,
I used the lighter one for the rear wheel.
What? The actual weight? No way I'm telling you that easily.
↑Ugh, why am I being such a jerk
Sorry for the wait!
Please view these images!
↑Stop it!
Continuing from yesterday.
I built the rear wheel for a cyclocross bike
with an Iron Cross rim and RS770 hub.
FH-RS770 28H black semi CX sprint
with red aluminum nipples.
I'll do the truing later.
This RS770 hub comes in 28, 32, and 36 hole versions,
but disc road 36H rims
are basically impossible to find.
When someone from the hub maker came by the shop for something,
they said "Why don't they make 24H instead?",
and I replied "I think so too."
It's not like they can't make them.
The WH-RS710, also known as 105, is basically
a 24H version of the RS770 hub as a complete wheel.
Just because they don't make a 24H hub
doesn't mean complete wheel sales go up.
The R9200 series wheels are better than
previous Shimano wheels,
but there's still plenty of room for improvement through custom building.
And conversely, even if they made a 24H hub,
complete wheel sales probably wouldn't really drop either.
There are just so few shops that actually build wheels.
This shows that disc road riders
don't all belong to a single category.
There's definitely a layer of people
who would absolutely never buy a Shimano complete wheel
（or at least never use it as-is off the shelf）
—not people who might switch to hand-built wheels
if a 24H RS770 hub came out,
but rather people who would never buy Shimano wheels in the first place anyway.
If a 24H RS770 hub did come out,
even those people might buy it,
so I really hope they make it...
Anyway, the Iron Cross rim this time was
incredibly light. It's a shame it's been discontinued.
Since it was the same hole count as another rim but with actual weight difference,
I used the lighter one for the rear wheel.
What? The actual weight? No way I'm telling you that easily.
↑Ugh, why am I being such a jerk
Sorry for the wait!
Please view these images!
↑Stop it!