Another day, another wheel (and so on...).
A customer dropped off the front wheel from their Nomu Lab Wheel No. 5.
It got hit by a mama-chari and the rim is warped potato-chip style,
plus there's buckling deformation too.
The hub is an Evolite hub, and due to brake zone wear,
the rim was already replaced once before,
so this rim has about 10,000 km of history,
and the hub is around 38,000 km according to the customer.
The rim obviously needs replacing, but at 10,000 km,
it's also sensible to replace the aluminum nipples,
and the hub bearings are pretty gritty.
Considering the cost of bearing parts and labor,
replacing the front hub itself doesn't cost much more,
so we're replacing the front hub too.
In other words, the only parts inherited from the original wheel
are the spokes.
Though technically, it's not just one spoke—
looking at it by component group: 20 spokes, 20 nipples, 1 rim, 1 hub—
the most expensive part for this wheel happens to be
the spokes.
The black CX-RAY 10-spoke rim
and black CX-RAY 13-spoke hub are roughly equivalent in cost.
All built up.
660 hub, 20H, black CX-RAY in reverse radial lacing.
The original wheel used all gold aluminum nipples,
but after the rebuild, the standard is black aluminum nipples
with turquoise only on both sides of the valve hole.
This change was made because the customer's frame set
that uses this wheel is changing, so we matched it to that.
A customer dropped off the front wheel from their Nomu Lab Wheel No. 5.
It got hit by a mama-chari and the rim is warped potato-chip style,
plus there's buckling deformation too.
The hub is an Evolite hub, and due to brake zone wear,
the rim was already replaced once before,
so this rim has about 10,000 km of history,
and the hub is around 38,000 km according to the customer.
The rim obviously needs replacing, but at 10,000 km,
it's also sensible to replace the aluminum nipples,
and the hub bearings are pretty gritty.
Considering the cost of bearing parts and labor,
replacing the front hub itself doesn't cost much more,
so we're replacing the front hub too.
In other words, the only parts inherited from the original wheel
are the spokes.
Though technically, it's not just one spoke—
looking at it by component group: 20 spokes, 20 nipples, 1 rim, 1 hub—
the most expensive part for this wheel happens to be
the spokes.
The black CX-RAY 10-spoke rim
and black CX-RAY 13-spoke hub are roughly equivalent in cost.
All built up.
660 hub, 20H, black CX-RAY in reverse radial lacing.
The original wheel used all gold aluminum nipples,
but after the rebuild, the standard is black aluminum nipples
with turquoise only on both sides of the valve hole.
This change was made because the customer's frame set
that uses this wheel is changing, so we matched it to that.