Wheels again today (and so on).
I built a front wheel with a Kinlin XR-19W rim and
a Sun Tour Superbe Pro hub.
There's a red sticker on the rim that says X-KEYMET,
and X-KEYMET is
Kinlin's own retail brand.
Sun Tour large flange quick-release front hub, 32H
All CX-RAY 6/6 Italian lacing
with gold aluminum nipples.
The hub shell has markings in the direction of wheel rotation,
and I use the side where this can be read in the correct orientation
as the basis for determining left and right in Italian lacing.
Going back in time, this is the hub before building.
This hub has spoke buildup marks,
On both left and right flanges,
on the outer side of the flange as viewed from the near side,
there are bite marks from reverse porcupine direction spokes.
So this hub was previously laced in reverse JIS lacing.
The only condition where reverse JIS lacing would theoretically make sense
is when lacing a left-drive rear wheel
with a double-sided rear hub
on a fixed-gear track bike with the chain on the left side.
↑This is a Superbe Pro large flange
non-hollow shaft nut-type front hub,
in other words, a track bike front hub,
The bite marks on both left and right flanges
show spokes in the porcupine direction,
so this is JIS lacing.
Looking at the right flange of the wheel I just built
using Italian lacing,
on the flange hole for reverse spokes,
there's a mark from the spoke shoulder,
whereas on the left flange of Italian lacing
the current spoke and the old spoke mark coincide,
so it appears to be
a fresh lacing on this hub.
The visual appearance of Italian lacing on the original hub
would be either like this or
offset by one flange hole,
but when I aligned the hub shell phase viewed through the valve hole
with Sun Tour's markings, it came out this way.
I built a front wheel with a Kinlin XR-19W rim and
a Sun Tour Superbe Pro hub.
There's a red sticker on the rim that says X-KEYMET,
and X-KEYMET is
Kinlin's own retail brand.
Sun Tour large flange quick-release front hub, 32H
All CX-RAY 6/6 Italian lacing
with gold aluminum nipples.
The hub shell has markings in the direction of wheel rotation,
and I use the side where this can be read in the correct orientation
as the basis for determining left and right in Italian lacing.
Going back in time, this is the hub before building.
This hub has spoke buildup marks,
On both left and right flanges,
on the outer side of the flange as viewed from the near side,
there are bite marks from reverse porcupine direction spokes.
So this hub was previously laced in reverse JIS lacing.
The only condition where reverse JIS lacing would theoretically make sense
is when lacing a left-drive rear wheel
with a double-sided rear hub
on a fixed-gear track bike with the chain on the left side.
↑This is a Superbe Pro large flange
non-hollow shaft nut-type front hub,
in other words, a track bike front hub,
The bite marks on both left and right flanges
show spokes in the porcupine direction,
so this is JIS lacing.
Looking at the right flange of the wheel I just built
using Italian lacing,
on the flange hole for reverse spokes,
there's a mark from the spoke shoulder,
whereas on the left flange of Italian lacing
the current spoke and the old spoke mark coincide,
so it appears to be
a fresh lacing on this hub.
The visual appearance of Italian lacing on the original hub
would be either like this or
offset by one flange hole,
but when I aligned the hub shell phase viewed through the valve hole
with Sun Tour's markings, it came out this way.