Another wheel day (and so on...).
A customer brought in the front and rear wheels from a Roval CL50 for me.
They asked me to rebuild them because they felt loose.
Today I'm just working on the rear wheel, but
This rear wheel—apart from the all-black Compétition Race spokes
and whatever else about the building method,
it's simply a particularly loose specimen due to individual variation.
It's hard to believe this much laxity came from age alone,
and they definitely didn't intentionally tension it on the loose side for truing either.
So I figure they just happened to buy a loose specimen.
Even if I just tighten it up under these conditions, the improvement will be modest,
but it should be enough that the rider feels it's "firm" once they're out on it.
The rim was shifted toward the non-drive side.
There's virtually no wobble, and no signs of any amateur truing attempts.
What looks like something wedged between the centering gauge
and the hub end is
just dust with oil residue sitting there.
Rebuilt.
Black half CX Sprint reverse different-diameter lacing with drive-side tied spokes,
and I swapped out the brass nipples (which have hex flats on the outer diameter for gripping) for DT black aluminum nipples,
with blue aluminum nipples on both sides of the valve hole.
A customer brought in the front and rear wheels from a Roval CL50 for me.
They asked me to rebuild them because they felt loose.
Today I'm just working on the rear wheel, but
This rear wheel—apart from the all-black Compétition Race spokes
and whatever else about the building method,
it's simply a particularly loose specimen due to individual variation.
It's hard to believe this much laxity came from age alone,
and they definitely didn't intentionally tension it on the loose side for truing either.
So I figure they just happened to buy a loose specimen.
Even if I just tighten it up under these conditions, the improvement will be modest,
but it should be enough that the rider feels it's "firm" once they're out on it.
The rim was shifted toward the non-drive side.
There's virtually no wobble, and no signs of any amateur truing attempts.
What looks like something wedged between the centering gauge
and the hub end is
just dust with oil residue sitting there.
Rebuilt.
Black half CX Sprint reverse different-diameter lacing with drive-side tied spokes,
and I swapped out the brass nipples (which have hex flats on the outer diameter for gripping) for DT black aluminum nipples,
with blue aluminum nipples on both sides of the valve hole.