Another day with wheels (and so on).
A customer brought me the front and rear wheels that I had built for them previously.
The front wheel is a Nomu Lab (Japanese wheel builder) Model 5 wheel with an AL22 rim,
and today I only did an inspection.
The rear wheel has an AL22 wide rim,
and was rebuilt by reusing the hub and spokes from a Shimano Dura-Ace C24 rear wheel
after the original rim became unusable.
These spokes have become rough and pitted on the surface,
and the customer said they look really bad and wants them replaced.
The wheel's performance is fine,
but if they don't like how it looks, there's not much we can do about it.
It's Shimano's fault for being cheap about spoke suppliers and not using Sapim or DT,
and I probably should have asked whether to replace the spokes too
back when we did the rebuild last time.
Completely unrelated, but I didn't take photos for the article,
and a while back I inspected an R9270 wheel
that had been hanging from a shop ceiling for about a year
(not one we sold at our shop).
Even though it had been used for less than a month since purchase,
when I ran my finger along the spokes,
there was a faint feeling of rust bubbling up from inside,
and it already had that grainy, rough texture.
I rebuilt it.
All-black CX Sprint with forced 4-cross lacing.
Like the original Shimano configuration,
I didn't lace the final cross on either side,
so the spokes can't be tied together.
A customer brought me the front and rear wheels that I had built for them previously.
The front wheel is a Nomu Lab (Japanese wheel builder) Model 5 wheel with an AL22 rim,
and today I only did an inspection.
The rear wheel has an AL22 wide rim,
and was rebuilt by reusing the hub and spokes from a Shimano Dura-Ace C24 rear wheel
after the original rim became unusable.
These spokes have become rough and pitted on the surface,
and the customer said they look really bad and wants them replaced.
The wheel's performance is fine,
but if they don't like how it looks, there's not much we can do about it.
It's Shimano's fault for being cheap about spoke suppliers and not using Sapim or DT,
and I probably should have asked whether to replace the spokes too
back when we did the rebuild last time.
Completely unrelated, but I didn't take photos for the article,
and a while back I inspected an R9270 wheel
that had been hanging from a shop ceiling for about a year
(not one we sold at our shop).
Even though it had been used for less than a month since purchase,
when I ran my finger along the spokes,
there was a faint feeling of rust bubbling up from inside,
and it already had that grainy, rough texture.
I rebuilt it.
All-black CX Sprint with forced 4-cross lacing.
Like the original Shimano configuration,
I didn't lace the final cross on either side,
so the spokes can't be tied together.