A customer left me a pair of front and rear wheels from Fulcrum's Wind 42 DB.
The previous Wind 40 model
came in a rim brake version as well,
so it had the model name Wind 40 DB,
but this Wind 42 DB
doesn't have a rim brake model.
Including these wheels, the other day
I inspected three pairs of wheels:
Fulcrum's Wind 40 DB and Wind 42 DB,
and the Nepste Nova 45/45 (which I already wrote about).
Previously, when I did a tension check and adjustment
on rim brake Bora wheels at my shop with a tightening bias,
they turned out great,
so the customer brought these in hoping
I could do the same thing with all three pairs.
For the Nepste wheels, I wrote about the work results
the other day,
but for the Wind 42 DB, I'll write about it in this post.
The customer told me how they actually performed,
so I'll write about that in a post two entries from now.
Also, since the work is pretty much the same,
I didn't take photos of the Wind 40 DB work.
I asked why they bought two wheels that are so similar—
Wind 42 and 40—
and they said the purchase timing was different
(only the Wind 42 DB is current production),
and the rim inner width is 23mm for the Wind 42 DB
and 19mm for the Wind 40 DB,
so they can differentiate which to use depending
on which frame they have.
First, let me adjust the rear wheel from the image above.
The rim is shifted way to the right... or rather,
this is the state after I initially tightened the freewheel side.
There's barely any runout, but I'm truing as I go.
I don't check for a temporary center.
From that state, I achieved center alignment
by tightening the non-freewheel side.
I tightened all the nipples reasonably,
but I left room for further tightening if needed for truing.
Next, the front wheel.
With this front wheel, the spoke tension
between left and right is quite similar,
so when I say "I tightened the high tension side first,"
it's unclear which side I mean.
So I'll say instead
"I tightened the side with more spokes first."
If it had been a reverse-angle asymmetric build,
I might have tightened the fewer-spoke side first.
↑Like this
and achieved center alignment.
With the Nepste wheel, I wanted to do something similar,
but it wasn't possible.
However, from what I hear and see from this wheel's customer
and the comments I received,
it's questionable whether that actually solved the problem.
The previous Wind 40 model
came in a rim brake version as well,
so it had the model name Wind 40 DB,
but this Wind 42 DB
doesn't have a rim brake model.
Including these wheels, the other day
I inspected three pairs of wheels:
Fulcrum's Wind 40 DB and Wind 42 DB,
and the Nepste Nova 45/45 (which I already wrote about).
Previously, when I did a tension check and adjustment
on rim brake Bora wheels at my shop with a tightening bias,
they turned out great,
so the customer brought these in hoping
I could do the same thing with all three pairs.
For the Nepste wheels, I wrote about the work results
the other day,
but for the Wind 42 DB, I'll write about it in this post.
The customer told me how they actually performed,
so I'll write about that in a post two entries from now.
Also, since the work is pretty much the same,
I didn't take photos of the Wind 40 DB work.
I asked why they bought two wheels that are so similar—
Wind 42 and 40—
and they said the purchase timing was different
(only the Wind 42 DB is current production),
and the rim inner width is 23mm for the Wind 42 DB
and 19mm for the Wind 40 DB,
so they can differentiate which to use depending
on which frame they have.
First, let me adjust the rear wheel from the image above.
The rim is shifted way to the right... or rather,
this is the state after I initially tightened the freewheel side.
There's barely any runout, but I'm truing as I go.
I don't check for a temporary center.
From that state, I achieved center alignment
by tightening the non-freewheel side.
I tightened all the nipples reasonably,
but I left room for further tightening if needed for truing.
Next, the front wheel.
With this front wheel, the spoke tension
between left and right is quite similar,
so when I say "I tightened the high tension side first,"
it's unclear which side I mean.
So I'll say instead
"I tightened the side with more spokes first."
If it had been a reverse-angle asymmetric build,
I might have tightened the fewer-spoke side first.
↑Like this
and achieved center alignment.
With the Nepste wheel, I wanted to do something similar,
but it wasn't possible.
However, from what I hear and see from this wheel's customer
and the comments I received,
it's questionable whether that actually solved the problem.