Another wheel day (and so on).
I received a front wheel from a Zentis Squad 2.5 from a customer.
This wheel was originally built with white-painted spokes in the stock factory configuration,
and our shop previously rebuilt it with black spokes.
(→here)
The Zentis Squad comes in 2.5 and 4.2 versions,
with the rim height marked in centimeters,
so the Squad 2.5 has a 25mm deep rim.
The rim comes in both tubular and clincher versions,
and to the best of my knowledge,
the Squad 2.5 clincher rim is
exceptionally the lightest among clincher rims with brake zones.
The Nomu Lab Wheel No. 5 rim is
"among currently available commercial clincher rims with brake zones,
actually the lightest class
even when including carbon rims,"
but if we add the condition of
"including discontinued models,"
then the Squad 2.5 rim becomes the lightest.
As for the actual weight, at the linked source mentioned earlier,
the actual measured weight is being announced!
Something weird just seemed to pass by,
but oh well.
The important thing to note is that this rim
was later widened while keeping the same name,
(still pretty narrow compared to recent "wide rims"),
and that version is about as heavy as the Nomu Lab Wheel No. 5 rim.
This time, the customer is asking me to
rebuild this front wheel with a disc hub.
Since it's 20H, the first thing that comes to mind is
the Tni LW Super front hub
(which only comes in 20H anyway),
but the distributor didn't have it in stock, so
I used this hub brought in by the customer
A straight spoke spec hub, 20H
half-black CX Sprint, laced forced 2-cross both sides.
I'll do the truing later.
I received a front wheel from a Zentis Squad 2.5 from a customer.
This wheel was originally built with white-painted spokes in the stock factory configuration,
and our shop previously rebuilt it with black spokes.
(→here)
The Zentis Squad comes in 2.5 and 4.2 versions,
with the rim height marked in centimeters,
so the Squad 2.5 has a 25mm deep rim.
The rim comes in both tubular and clincher versions,
and to the best of my knowledge,
the Squad 2.5 clincher rim is
exceptionally the lightest among clincher rims with brake zones.
The Nomu Lab Wheel No. 5 rim is
"among currently available commercial clincher rims with brake zones,
actually the lightest class
even when including carbon rims,"
but if we add the condition of
"including discontinued models,"
then the Squad 2.5 rim becomes the lightest.
As for the actual weight, at the linked source mentioned earlier,
the actual measured weight is being announced!
Something weird just seemed to pass by,
but oh well.
The important thing to note is that this rim
was later widened while keeping the same name,
(still pretty narrow compared to recent "wide rims"),
and that version is about as heavy as the Nomu Lab Wheel No. 5 rim.
This time, the customer is asking me to
rebuild this front wheel with a disc hub.
Since it's 20H, the first thing that comes to mind is
the Tni LW Super front hub
(which only comes in 20H anyway),
but the distributor didn't have it in stock, so
I used this hub brought in by the customer
A straight spoke spec hub, 20H
half-black CX Sprint, laced forced 2-cross both sides.
I'll do the truing later.