Another wheel day (and so on).
↑This is my personal Mavic GL330 rim.
The numbers on the GEL280 rim and GL330 rim represent the stated weight,
but with the red-label GEL280, that's one thing,
but with the light-blue background M-label GEL280
and the pink background M-label GL330 (the one in the image above)
there are virtually never any specimens that weigh less than the stated weight.
↑This is the GL330 rim a customer left with me this time.
It's as light as the actual measured weight of a GEL280.
I laid them side by side with my personal rim.
You might think, "Won't something like this get mixed up?"
But that's absolutely impossible.
Partly it's because the spoke hole count is different,
but the one the customer left with me
is a 24-inch rim.
I'm amazed something like this still exists. That's crazy.
The light weight was also because it's a small-diameter rim.
Looking back at it, I find it personally interesting that
a 700C 36-hole and a 24-inch 32-hole
appear to have roughly the same spoke hole spacing.
I built the front wheel.
A Campagnolo Scirocco hub
made with bent-elbow spokes instead of straight spokes
and in silver anodize instead of black—
a 32-hole hub that was once offered at the Centaur grade,
built entirely with Italian-style all-complete Campagnolo nipples.
↑This is my personal Mavic GL330 rim.
The numbers on the GEL280 rim and GL330 rim represent the stated weight,
but with the red-label GEL280, that's one thing,
but with the light-blue background M-label GEL280
and the pink background M-label GL330 (the one in the image above)
there are virtually never any specimens that weigh less than the stated weight.
↑This is the GL330 rim a customer left with me this time.
It's as light as the actual measured weight of a GEL280.
I laid them side by side with my personal rim.
You might think, "Won't something like this get mixed up?"
But that's absolutely impossible.
Partly it's because the spoke hole count is different,
but the one the customer left with me
is a 24-inch rim.
I'm amazed something like this still exists. That's crazy.
The light weight was also because it's a small-diameter rim.
Looking back at it, I find it personally interesting that
a 700C 36-hole and a 24-inch 32-hole
appear to have roughly the same spoke hole spacing.
I built the front wheel.
A Campagnolo Scirocco hub
made with bent-elbow spokes instead of straight spokes
and in silver anodize instead of black—
a 32-hole hub that was once offered at the Centaur grade,
built entirely with Italian-style all-complete Campagnolo nipples.