Today it's wheels again (and so on).
A customer left me a Reynolds 32 rear wheel to work on.
They wanted me to essentially rebuild it as a Nomu Lab Wheel #6.
They wanted both wheels rebuilt
and wanted silver spokes,
but the front wheel is 20H, all-black Aerolite outpoke radial laced,
and just needed truing adjustments, so
I'll rebuild the rear wheel with black spokes to match the front.
Reynolds-branded hub, 24H,
all-black Aerolite 4-cross laced.
It wasn't different-gauge laced left and right.
Earlier models had some with a thicker freewheel-side flange,
and with rim heights of 46mm instead of 32mm,
laced with round butted spokes
and set up with different gauges left and right.
The customer is a second or subsequent owner who's never used this wheel since acquiring it.
I suggested they just try riding it a bit to see how poorly a rear wheel with equal spoke counts on both sides and non-freewheel-side radial lacing performs,
but they said it's impossible because the freewheel body is 10-speed.
Since they own Nomu Lab Wheel #5,
they can probably imagine what this will be like with the outer section swapped to this rim,
so it saves me a lot of explaining.
Built it.
The original inspiration for Aerolight hub—the Novatech 482 hub, 24H,
black semi-Comp 4-cross laced with spoke tape.
I discussed with the customer which hub to use—this one or a 660 hub—and we decided together.
The original hub was a DT-made star ratchet model.
After taking some photos for the Reynolds hub graveyard,
I returned it to the customer.
The 32 rim typically weighs around 280g.
The early production Nomu Lab Wheel #6 rim is a single-sale 32 rim without the Swirl lip and not Reynolds-branded—it weighs around 310g.
But the later production version mysteriously
switched to rims with the Swirl lip,
which Reynolds supposedly shouldn't be allowed to sell (it's patented).
Probably because Reynolds discontinued the 32, but
the OEM source LEW had leftover uncosmetic rims
and dumped them, so
those weighed around 280g.
This rim happens to be one of the lighter examples,
weight-wise it's a lucky find.
I'm not going to tell you the actual measured weight though.
↑I think I said something like this in the previous post too
Sorry For The Wait! I'm Mostly Recycling Images From The Previous Post, But Anyway
Please Look At This Image!
↑Stop iiiiiit!
A customer left me a Reynolds 32 rear wheel to work on.
They wanted me to essentially rebuild it as a Nomu Lab Wheel #6.
They wanted both wheels rebuilt
and wanted silver spokes,
but the front wheel is 20H, all-black Aerolite outpoke radial laced,
and just needed truing adjustments, so
I'll rebuild the rear wheel with black spokes to match the front.
Reynolds-branded hub, 24H,
all-black Aerolite 4-cross laced.
It wasn't different-gauge laced left and right.
Earlier models had some with a thicker freewheel-side flange,
and with rim heights of 46mm instead of 32mm,
laced with round butted spokes
and set up with different gauges left and right.
The customer is a second or subsequent owner who's never used this wheel since acquiring it.
I suggested they just try riding it a bit to see how poorly a rear wheel with equal spoke counts on both sides and non-freewheel-side radial lacing performs,
but they said it's impossible because the freewheel body is 10-speed.
Since they own Nomu Lab Wheel #5,
they can probably imagine what this will be like with the outer section swapped to this rim,
so it saves me a lot of explaining.
Built it.
The original inspiration for Aerolight hub—the Novatech 482 hub, 24H,
black semi-Comp 4-cross laced with spoke tape.
I discussed with the customer which hub to use—this one or a 660 hub—and we decided together.
The original hub was a DT-made star ratchet model.
After taking some photos for the Reynolds hub graveyard,
I returned it to the customer.
The 32 rim typically weighs around 280g.
The early production Nomu Lab Wheel #6 rim is a single-sale 32 rim without the Swirl lip and not Reynolds-branded—it weighs around 310g.
But the later production version mysteriously
switched to rims with the Swirl lip,
which Reynolds supposedly shouldn't be allowed to sell (it's patented).
Probably because Reynolds discontinued the 32, but
the OEM source LEW had leftover uncosmetic rims
and dumped them, so
those weighed around 280g.
This rim happens to be one of the lighter examples,
weight-wise it's a lucky find.
I'm not going to tell you the actual measured weight though.
↑I think I said something like this in the previous post too
Sorry For The Wait! I'm Mostly Recycling Images From The Previous Post, But Anyway
Please Look At This Image!
↑Stop iiiiiit!