Another wheel day (and so on).
I received a Reynolds Attack rear wheel from a customer.
When I received it, the nipple was broken
and there were spokes missing in places.
They asked me to build a rear wheel for disc brakes
using this rim.
The nipples on this wheel have
a 3.2mm hex grip on the outer edge,
but these nipples tend to break at the neck
and don't have great strength.
In fact, when I loosened the outer edge on the first try,
the nipple broke or the grip area
on the inner edge suddenly cracked.
↑The ones I managed to recover intact look like this
The spokes were Sapim brand, but
Reynolds from two generations earlier
used original hubs (or rather, the OEM source is unclear)
with Sapim spokes.
Then in the next generation it switched to DT hubs,
and the spokes changed to DT brand as well.
The next generation is this original hub
(which is a completely different design from the one from two generations back),
but the spokes adopted are back to Sapim.
Wheels from Roval, Bontrager, and GIANT
also use DT hubs with DT spokes,
but this is probably because the hub supplier is DT,
so they can't really avoid
using DT spokes.
ZIPP, which designs its own hubs,
has consistently used Sapim spokes since way back,
and wheels from the smaller brand (no offense)
ONE AERO use DT hubs with Sapim spokes.
Though I haven't written about it,
I recently inspected a complete Chinese carbon rim
that was built with DT 350 disc hubs and CX-RAY spokes,
brand new with tons of radial runout,
and that also had DT hubs with Sapim spokes.
Going further off topic,
despite the existence of Chinese carbon rims,
I don't see cheap alternatives to CX-RAY spokes,
which suggests that spokes
are harder to manufacture than carbon rims.
Or perhaps it's a product
where initial manufacturing investment is hard to recover.
Based on the fact that spokes on complete wheels
with non-DT hubs are generally Sapim,
I'm proposing the theory that
"wheel manufacturers would prefer to adopt
CX-RAY over Aero Lite if possible."
Built.
Revo disc hub, 24H, semi-comp 4-cross lacing.
I'll do the true-up later.
I received a Reynolds Attack rear wheel from a customer.
When I received it, the nipple was broken
and there were spokes missing in places.
They asked me to build a rear wheel for disc brakes
using this rim.
The nipples on this wheel have
a 3.2mm hex grip on the outer edge,
but these nipples tend to break at the neck
and don't have great strength.
In fact, when I loosened the outer edge on the first try,
the nipple broke or the grip area
on the inner edge suddenly cracked.
↑The ones I managed to recover intact look like this
The spokes were Sapim brand, but
Reynolds from two generations earlier
used original hubs (or rather, the OEM source is unclear)
with Sapim spokes.
Then in the next generation it switched to DT hubs,
and the spokes changed to DT brand as well.
The next generation is this original hub
(which is a completely different design from the one from two generations back),
but the spokes adopted are back to Sapim.
Wheels from Roval, Bontrager, and GIANT
also use DT hubs with DT spokes,
but this is probably because the hub supplier is DT,
so they can't really avoid
using DT spokes.
ZIPP, which designs its own hubs,
has consistently used Sapim spokes since way back,
and wheels from the smaller brand (no offense)
ONE AERO use DT hubs with Sapim spokes.
Though I haven't written about it,
I recently inspected a complete Chinese carbon rim
that was built with DT 350 disc hubs and CX-RAY spokes,
brand new with tons of radial runout,
and that also had DT hubs with Sapim spokes.
Going further off topic,
despite the existence of Chinese carbon rims,
I don't see cheap alternatives to CX-RAY spokes,
which suggests that spokes
are harder to manufacture than carbon rims.
Or perhaps it's a product
where initial manufacturing investment is hard to recover.
Based on the fact that spokes on complete wheels
with non-DT hubs are generally Sapim,
I'm proposing the theory that
"wheel manufacturers would prefer to adopt
CX-RAY over Aero Lite if possible."
Built.
Revo disc hub, 24H, semi-comp 4-cross lacing.
I'll do the true-up later.