Wheels again today (and so on).
I received a rear wheel from a customer that we had built previously.
Apparently it was being used with a 12-speed setup, but the spokes on the freewheel side were interfering with the rear derailleur.
So I swapped out the freewheel-side spokes from round butted Compé spokes to flattened CX Sprint spokes.
This was a no-charge job for parts, labor, and shipping.
This rim is a type with no holes except for the valve hole on the outer perimeter—it holds air well enough that IRC tubeless tires can run without sealant.
That said, it also depends on the tire's own performance and compatibility with the rim.
The non-freewheel side uses laced CX-RAY spokes, but replacing all the freewheel-side spokes without loosening these at all is difficult—actually impossible—so I loosen the non-freewheel side by two turns, replace all the freewheel-side spokes, build the wheel with no radial or lateral runout and the rim shifted to the right, then finally tighten the non-freewheel side by about two turns to true the wheel center. That's the procedure I follow.
I received a rear wheel from a customer that we had built previously.
Apparently it was being used with a 12-speed setup, but the spokes on the freewheel side were interfering with the rear derailleur.
So I swapped out the freewheel-side spokes from round butted Compé spokes to flattened CX Sprint spokes.
This was a no-charge job for parts, labor, and shipping.
This rim is a type with no holes except for the valve hole on the outer perimeter—it holds air well enough that IRC tubeless tires can run without sealant.
That said, it also depends on the tire's own performance and compatibility with the rim.
The non-freewheel side uses laced CX-RAY spokes, but replacing all the freewheel-side spokes without loosening these at all is difficult—actually impossible—so I loosen the non-freewheel side by two turns, replace all the freewheel-side spokes, build the wheel with no radial or lateral runout and the rim shifted to the right, then finally tighten the non-freewheel side by about two turns to true the wheel center. That's the procedure I follow.