A customer brought in a wheel from a brand called Yo-Reo (ヨーレオ)
a Yo-Reo Pro C45 wheel.
They wanted an inspection.
The front wheel had no centering issues and was almost wobble-free,
but the rear wheel had a pretty significant hop in one spot,
along with various minor wobbles,
and the centering was also off.
It's quite likely the front and rear wheels were laced differently.
The customer asked me what I thought of this wheel,
and while the right side of the front wheel is radially laced
and I have some questions about the spoke selection,
considering the price, I told them it's pretty decent.
The front wheel is 0-4 lacing, the rear is 4-4 lacing,
with Pillar black straight aero spokes
in a symmetrical lacing pattern.
Both the hub and rim were Yo-Reo branded,
though I knew where the rim actually came from.
The Pillar aero spokes featured
elliptical aero sections with specific
width and height dimensions in the flattened butted area,
and spoke specific gravity
that have no equivalent in Sapim or DT offerings.
As you can see from the spoke replacement repairs on this blog,
spoke failures due to spoke neck breakage are actually quite rare,
whereas crashes, chain drops,
and foreign objects getting caught in rotating wheels
are far more common causes.
If you're not particularly concerned about the wheel being difficult to repair in those situations,
then factoring in the price, I'd say it's a decent wheel.
Though I think the front wheel is a bit mediocre.
I inspected the C45 from the beginning of this post today,
but actually I inspected a Yo-Reo Pro C35
wheel a bit earlier.
↑The rim looks like this
↑The hub looks like this
If the customer would allow changing the front hub,
it would be possible to re-lace a better front wheel.
This front wheel had centering issues.
↑About this much
I did a wobble correction and centering.
Now the rear wheel.
Both sides are laced with the final cross.
The temporary centering showed no issues,
but there were quite a few minor wobbles.
The image above is the temporary centering,
but I didn't take a photo of the post-work version
since it would be the same.
I don't have enough samples to say this as a definitive trend,
but my impression is that this brand
has pretty loose precision and shipping standards.
a Yo-Reo Pro C45 wheel.
They wanted an inspection.
The front wheel had no centering issues and was almost wobble-free,
but the rear wheel had a pretty significant hop in one spot,
along with various minor wobbles,
and the centering was also off.
It's quite likely the front and rear wheels were laced differently.
The customer asked me what I thought of this wheel,
and while the right side of the front wheel is radially laced
and I have some questions about the spoke selection,
considering the price, I told them it's pretty decent.
The front wheel is 0-4 lacing, the rear is 4-4 lacing,
with Pillar black straight aero spokes
in a symmetrical lacing pattern.
Both the hub and rim were Yo-Reo branded,
though I knew where the rim actually came from.
The Pillar aero spokes featured
elliptical aero sections with specific
width and height dimensions in the flattened butted area,
and spoke specific gravity
that have no equivalent in Sapim or DT offerings.
As you can see from the spoke replacement repairs on this blog,
spoke failures due to spoke neck breakage are actually quite rare,
whereas crashes, chain drops,
and foreign objects getting caught in rotating wheels
are far more common causes.
If you're not particularly concerned about the wheel being difficult to repair in those situations,
then factoring in the price, I'd say it's a decent wheel.
I inspected the C45 from the beginning of this post today,
but actually I inspected a Yo-Reo Pro C35
wheel a bit earlier.
↑The rim looks like this
↑The hub looks like this
it would be possible to re-lace a better front wheel.
This front wheel had centering issues.
↑About this much
I did a wobble correction and centering.
Now the rear wheel.
Both sides are laced with the final cross.
The temporary centering showed no issues,
but there were quite a few minor wobbles.
The image above is the temporary centering,
but I didn't take a photo of the post-work version
since it would be the same.
I don't have enough samples to say this as a definitive trend,
but my impression is that this brand
has pretty loose precision and shipping standards.