Wheel work again today (and so on).
I rebuilt the rear wheel on the WH-RS700,
the partner to the front wheel I converted to silver spokes the other day.
CX-RAY on the freehub side, CX Sprint on the non-freehub side,
built with reverse different-sized lacing against the asymmetric left-right pattern,
with the final crossing on the freehub side having a tie-in.
Of course, I'll be handing this over to the customer,
but it turned out well enough that I'd want to keep it as a sample. Hehe.
Every time I finish building a wheel like this—with hard-to-find materials and at a level of craftsmanship I'm genuinely proud of—I find myself thinking the same thing.
Going back in the timeline,
the image above shows the point where I'd swapped out
all the spokes on the non-freehub side
and two final crossings on the freehub side to silver spokes.
For this wheel, rather than completely disassembling it,
I replaced the spokes one by one,
and reused the original nipples.
The reason for doing it that way was
I didn't want to peel off the tubeless tape that was already on there.
So I didn't weigh the rim itself.
I rebuilt the rear wheel on the WH-RS700,
the partner to the front wheel I converted to silver spokes the other day.
CX-RAY on the freehub side, CX Sprint on the non-freehub side,
built with reverse different-sized lacing against the asymmetric left-right pattern,
with the final crossing on the freehub side having a tie-in.
Of course, I'll be handing this over to the customer,
but it turned out well enough that I'd want to keep it as a sample. Hehe.
Every time I finish building a wheel like this—with hard-to-find materials and at a level of craftsmanship I'm genuinely proud of—I find myself thinking the same thing.
Going back in the timeline,
the image above shows the point where I'd swapped out
all the spokes on the non-freehub side
and two final crossings on the freehub side to silver spokes.
For this wheel, rather than completely disassembling it,
I replaced the spokes one by one,
and reused the original nipples.
The reason for doing it that way was
I didn't want to peel off the tubeless tape that was already on there.
So I didn't weigh the rim itself.