Another day of wheel building (and so on).
A customer left with me two 24H 40mm high carbon rims
for building disc brake front and rear wheels.
The outer edge has no holes except for the valve hole.
The lower image is supposedly 1g lighter,
but in reality the upper rim consistently weighs 404g,
while the lower rim shows 404g most of the time
and occasionally fluctuates to 403g (even while stationary),
so I timed the shot for when it showed 403g.
Since there is a difference, I'll use the lighter one for the rear wheel.
All built.
ENVE dense-sparse phase flange hub, 24H
Half CX black sprint
On paper it's a 44 reverse Italian lacing
with black aluminum nipples.
I'll do the truing later.
ENVE makes their dense-sparse phase flange hubs
in both carbon and aluminum versions—
this one is the aluminum version.
It's not something purchased individually but
salvaged from a complete wheel,
and while it's clean with no signs of wear,
the flange holes show lacing marks,
and both the front and rear hubs were laced reverse Italian.
Since I'm re-lacing the front wheel in reverse Italian,
I'm threading the spokes to match the old nipple marks,
just as they were before.
I plan to lace the rear wheel in JIS lacing.
Speaking of another ENVE matter—
there was a complete rim brake wheel that came
in all-black CX-RAY 44 reverse Italian lacing,
which we re-laced at the shop to black half-Campagnolo 46 Italian
and trued it. When the rim got damaged and was sent to the maker,
they conscientiously re-laced the hub alone with another rim
in all-black CX-RAY 44 reverse Italian,
but that also didn't ride well, so we re-laced it again
at the shop to black half-Campagnolo 46 Italian with truing.
That hub ended up with four different wheel builds.
This hub is one where if you lace it as 2-cross,
it ends up at nearly a 3-cross angle,
meaning no matter who laces it, a 44 lacing
becomes equivalent to a 66 lacing.
If you made the left side of the disc front hub and
the right side of the rear hub into normal flanges,
anyone could build it as roughly 46 equivalent lacing—
and that's something I probably write every time this hub comes up.
If you do 3-cross on the right side instead of 2-cross,
pulling the final crossing spoke from the far side of the dense flange,
you could barely achieve asymmetric lacing,
but I didn't go that far.
One reason is that it would contradict the old nipple marks,
though that's not really the main reason.
I'm going to contradict that on the rear wheel anyway.
By the way, this rim, with its valve hole shaping
and finish—
↑looks just like the rim I built yesterday.
↑Today's rim
↑Yesterday's rim
...they came from the same source.
I honestly don't know where yesterday's rim came from,
but when I asked the customer about today's rim,
they said they didn't know the maker but bought it on AliExpress.
Today's rim was purchased for gravel use,
with actual measured dimensions of 40mm rim height,
27.4mm rim inner width (hooked rim), and
33.5mm rim outer width.
A customer left with me two 24H 40mm high carbon rims
for building disc brake front and rear wheels.
The outer edge has no holes except for the valve hole.
The lower image is supposedly 1g lighter,
but in reality the upper rim consistently weighs 404g,
while the lower rim shows 404g most of the time
and occasionally fluctuates to 403g (even while stationary),
so I timed the shot for when it showed 403g.
Since there is a difference, I'll use the lighter one for the rear wheel.
All built.
ENVE dense-sparse phase flange hub, 24H
Half CX black sprint
On paper it's a 44 reverse Italian lacing
with black aluminum nipples.
I'll do the truing later.
ENVE makes their dense-sparse phase flange hubs
in both carbon and aluminum versions—
this one is the aluminum version.
It's not something purchased individually but
salvaged from a complete wheel,
and while it's clean with no signs of wear,
the flange holes show lacing marks,
and both the front and rear hubs were laced reverse Italian.
Since I'm re-lacing the front wheel in reverse Italian,
I'm threading the spokes to match the old nipple marks,
just as they were before.
I plan to lace the rear wheel in JIS lacing.
Speaking of another ENVE matter—
there was a complete rim brake wheel that came
in all-black CX-RAY 44 reverse Italian lacing,
which we re-laced at the shop to black half-Campagnolo 46 Italian
and trued it. When the rim got damaged and was sent to the maker,
they conscientiously re-laced the hub alone with another rim
in all-black CX-RAY 44 reverse Italian,
but that also didn't ride well, so we re-laced it again
at the shop to black half-Campagnolo 46 Italian with truing.
That hub ended up with four different wheel builds.
This hub is one where if you lace it as 2-cross,
it ends up at nearly a 3-cross angle,
meaning no matter who laces it, a 44 lacing
becomes equivalent to a 66 lacing.
If you made the left side of the disc front hub and
the right side of the rear hub into normal flanges,
anyone could build it as roughly 46 equivalent lacing—
and that's something I probably write every time this hub comes up.
If you do 3-cross on the right side instead of 2-cross,
pulling the final crossing spoke from the far side of the dense flange,
you could barely achieve asymmetric lacing,
but I didn't go that far.
One reason is that it would contradict the old nipple marks,
though that's not really the main reason.
I'm going to contradict that on the rear wheel anyway.
By the way, this rim, with its valve hole shaping
and finish—
↑looks just like the rim I built yesterday.
↑Today's rim
↑Yesterday's rim
...they came from the same source.
I honestly don't know where yesterday's rim came from,
but when I asked the customer about today's rim,
they said they didn't know the maker but bought it on AliExpress.
Today's rim was purchased for gravel use,
with actual measured dimensions of 40mm rim height,
27.4mm rim inner width (hooked rim), and
33.5mm rim outer width.