Another day of wheel work (and so on).
A customer brought me an Altegra C50 rear wheel.
The customer wasn't the original owner of this wheel—
they acquired it as material with the intention of having it rebuilt.
They want it rebuilt without the Optobal (Shimano 2:1 lacing),
using a generic hub instead.
But the customer already owns an Altegra C50 rear wheel
that we rebuilt in the same way at our shop,
so I asked why they needed a second one.
The answer: "Swapping wheels is a pain."
SWC probably stands for Shimano Wheel Center,
but anyway, the date code is TD,
which means April 2021 (→here).
For its age, the spoke paint damage and rust were
in pretty decent shape.
I'm mentioning this because it ties into the next article—
it doesn't really matter for this particular wheel.
We're not reusing it anyway.
The hub rotation was slightly rough,
and there were marks from a hub wrench on the locknut.
What the heck is this?
The rim tape was bulging at the end,
so I thought sealant had leaked in,
but it turned out to be sand-like stuff packed in there.
Built.
Revo disc hub, 24H, black semi-CX sprint
with 46-spoke JIS lacing,
Rainbow (VAS) pattern nipples.
I'll true it later.
On another note,
when Chen Shou, who authored the Records of the Three Kingdoms as a historical text,
wrote biographies of certain figures,
he showed restraint by not mentioning their misdeeds or criticisms
within their own biography—
instead, he'd touch on such matters when those people
appeared in the biographies of others.
Following that example,
I'll write this down here:
if tubeless rims are fine instead of tubulars,
you don't need to buy Dura-Ace wheels—
just get Altegra wheels with the same rim weight
but different rim-side cosmetics,
and have them rebuilt with Optobal, that is, Shimano's 2:1 lacing,
using a generic hub.
That's all there is to it.
If your perspective is just "I don't think Optobal rear wheels won't work,"
well, I suppose that's unavoidable. Hmm.
Addendum: After reading the next article,
I realize I totally didn't follow the Chen Shou example,
but oh well.
A customer brought me an Altegra C50 rear wheel.
The customer wasn't the original owner of this wheel—
they acquired it as material with the intention of having it rebuilt.
They want it rebuilt without the Optobal (Shimano 2:1 lacing),
using a generic hub instead.
But the customer already owns an Altegra C50 rear wheel
that we rebuilt in the same way at our shop,
so I asked why they needed a second one.
The answer: "Swapping wheels is a pain."
SWC probably stands for Shimano Wheel Center,
but anyway, the date code is TD,
which means April 2021 (→here).
For its age, the spoke paint damage and rust were
in pretty decent shape.
I'm mentioning this because it ties into the next article—
it doesn't really matter for this particular wheel.
We're not reusing it anyway.
The hub rotation was slightly rough,
and there were marks from a hub wrench on the locknut.
What the heck is this?
The rim tape was bulging at the end,
so I thought sealant had leaked in,
but it turned out to be sand-like stuff packed in there.
Built.
Revo disc hub, 24H, black semi-CX sprint
with 46-spoke JIS lacing,
Rainbow (VAS) pattern nipples.
I'll true it later.
On another note,
when Chen Shou, who authored the Records of the Three Kingdoms as a historical text,
wrote biographies of certain figures,
he showed restraint by not mentioning their misdeeds or criticisms
within their own biography—
instead, he'd touch on such matters when those people
appeared in the biographies of others.
Following that example,
I'll write this down here:
if tubeless rims are fine instead of tubulars,
you don't need to buy Dura-Ace wheels—
just get Altegra wheels with the same rim weight
but different rim-side cosmetics,
and have them rebuilt with Optobal, that is, Shimano's 2:1 lacing,
using a generic hub.
That's all there is to it.
If your perspective is just "I don't think Optobal rear wheels won't work,"
well, I suppose that's unavoidable. Hmm.
Addendum: After reading the next article,
I realize I totally didn't follow the Chen Shou example,
but oh well.