Another day of wheel building (and so on).
A customer brought me a Chinese carbon rim with
spokes and nipples just threaded through—
basically a semi-assembled mess.
The image above shows the final state after I got it
assembled as an actual wheel, but
they wanted me to finish the hole-less rim assembly
to the point where it actually functions as a wheel.
I didn't do every step of the wheel build myself,
but the front wheel had crazy radial runout,
so I figured rebuilding it from scratch would take
about the same amount of time anyway.
That's why today qualifies as another wheel build (and so on).
The hub is a Bora Ultra 18H front hub,
and the spokes are carbon.
The rear wheel is built too.
The initial centering was off by about four stacked 500-yen coins,
which would be fine, except the rim was shifted toward the anti-freewheel side—
incredibly annoying. After getting most of the lateral runout out,
I kept the rim offset toward the freewheel side
right up until the final stages of truing.
The hub is a Racing Speed 21H rear hub,
with carbon spokes that match the hub flange dimensions
of standard straight-pull spoke hubs, just like the front wheel.
Both wheels happened to have the correct spoke length,
which the customer figured out by checking
a wheel I'd built for them before.
A customer brought me a Chinese carbon rim with
spokes and nipples just threaded through—
basically a semi-assembled mess.
The image above shows the final state after I got it
assembled as an actual wheel, but
they wanted me to finish the hole-less rim assembly
to the point where it actually functions as a wheel.
I didn't do every step of the wheel build myself,
but the front wheel had crazy radial runout,
so I figured rebuilding it from scratch would take
about the same amount of time anyway.
That's why today qualifies as another wheel build (and so on).
The hub is a Bora Ultra 18H front hub,
and the spokes are carbon.
The rear wheel is built too.
The initial centering was off by about four stacked 500-yen coins,
which would be fine, except the rim was shifted toward the anti-freewheel side—
incredibly annoying. After getting most of the lateral runout out,
I kept the rim offset toward the freewheel side
right up until the final stages of truing.
The hub is a Racing Speed 21H rear hub,
with carbon spokes that match the hub flange dimensions
of standard straight-pull spoke hubs, just like the front wheel.
Both wheels happened to have the correct spoke length,
which the customer figured out by checking
a wheel I'd built for them before.