Another wheel day (details omitted).
A customer brought in a Reynolds DV46 Cross front wheel for rebuild.
A while back I rebuilt a DV46UL rear wheel for a separate job,
and that rim was squishy when you pressed on the sidewalls,
but this one is much stiffer,
so they're clearly making them differently.
Another difference is
the spokes are round-butted rather than aero.
Front wheel uses DT Revolution,
rear wheel uses DT with left-right diameter variation as Comp/Revolutions.
This time it's just the front wheel,
but the customer wants it
rebuilt with aero spokes.
Reynolds had a period where the front wheel was built with what we call "outpoke" (← that's nomunlab terminology)
where from the valve hole, the adjacent spoke going clockwise
exits from the hub flange nearest to you when viewed from the front.
This is an internal nipple rim,
and since there's no spoke offset on either the inner or outer side,
there's no problem rebuilding it in standard lacing.
But this time I decided to rebuild it in the same outpoke orientation as the original.
The reason is that the Reynolds text on the hub body,
visible through the valve hole, lines up perfectly,
and since this wheel is 20H,
changing the spoke offset would shift it by 18°.
Looking at the image above,
if I offset it one hole in the direction the hub marking would recede,
it would end up around the middle of the marked section,
so even if I rebuild it in standard lacing,
it wouldn't shift dramatically.
Rebuilt.
Swapped from black Revolution to black CX-RAY,
and built it in the same outpoke radial lacing as the original.
The spoke tension is roughly equivalent to the original wheel,
but with spokes like DT Revolution or Sapim Laser that have
a 1.5mm diameter round-butted section,
I'm tensioning above the threshold where "unyo-n" (spoke twisting) starts.
I should mention—the rim is tubular,
and the customer had already carefully removed
the rim cement bed from the tire seating surface.
I can't remove the rim cement that fell into the rim interior,
but there's only a few grams of it total in there.
As a side note, the hexagonal shape of the internal nipples
is still visible as traces.
I mention "a few grams" because I actually weighed the rim.
There was a balance weight sticker on it,
so I peeled that off temporarily.
After all this talk, though,
I'm not going to tell you the rim weight.
No way I'm just handing that out freely
↑wow this guy's got an attitude
Sorry for the wait!
Please take a look at this image!
Also, here's the image from the DV46UL rim from the other day
for reference!
↑STOP THAT!
A customer brought in a Reynolds DV46 Cross front wheel for rebuild.
A while back I rebuilt a DV46UL rear wheel for a separate job,
and that rim was squishy when you pressed on the sidewalls,
but this one is much stiffer,
so they're clearly making them differently.
Another difference is
the spokes are round-butted rather than aero.
Front wheel uses DT Revolution,
rear wheel uses DT with left-right diameter variation as Comp/Revolutions.
This time it's just the front wheel,
but the customer wants it
rebuilt with aero spokes.
Reynolds had a period where the front wheel was built with what we call "outpoke" (← that's nomunlab terminology)
where from the valve hole, the adjacent spoke going clockwise
exits from the hub flange nearest to you when viewed from the front.
This is an internal nipple rim,
and since there's no spoke offset on either the inner or outer side,
there's no problem rebuilding it in standard lacing.
But this time I decided to rebuild it in the same outpoke orientation as the original.
The reason is that the Reynolds text on the hub body,
visible through the valve hole, lines up perfectly,
and since this wheel is 20H,
changing the spoke offset would shift it by 18°.
Looking at the image above,
if I offset it one hole in the direction the hub marking would recede,
it would end up around the middle of the marked section,
so even if I rebuild it in standard lacing,
it wouldn't shift dramatically.
Rebuilt.
Swapped from black Revolution to black CX-RAY,
and built it in the same outpoke radial lacing as the original.
The spoke tension is roughly equivalent to the original wheel,
but with spokes like DT Revolution or Sapim Laser that have
a 1.5mm diameter round-butted section,
I'm tensioning above the threshold where "unyo-n" (spoke twisting) starts.
I should mention—the rim is tubular,
and the customer had already carefully removed
the rim cement bed from the tire seating surface.
I can't remove the rim cement that fell into the rim interior,
but there's only a few grams of it total in there.
As a side note, the hexagonal shape of the internal nipples
is still visible as traces.
I mention "a few grams" because I actually weighed the rim.
There was a balance weight sticker on it,
so I peeled that off temporarily.
After all this talk, though,
I'm not going to tell you the rim weight.
No way I'm just handing that out freely
↑wow this guy's got an attitude
Sorry for the wait!
Please take a look at this image!
Also, here's the image from the DV46UL rim from the other day
for reference!
↑STOP THAT!