Wheels again today (and so on).
I received from a customer a pair of 50/45mm tall wavy-profile
Chinese carbon tubeless-ready rims.
Both are 24H, and I'll use the heavier one for the front wheel.
Built it.
Revo disc hub, 24H, black half CX sprint.
Built reverse Italian with 64-spoke pattern using black aluminum nipples.
I'll do the lacing later.
This hub is on loan from the customer, but despite the center-lock spline being pristine with no trace of rotor mounting marks,
the hub bearings are badly roughed up.
The customer noticed this themselves and
is requesting bearing replacement.
Given the estimated service life,
the bearing wear is premature, so
over-tightening the thru-axle is
likely the culprit.
On the 6-spoke side of the reverse Italian 64-spoke pattern,
I routed J-spokes through the original J-spoke holes,
but the spoke indentations on the hub flange
are located on the 4-spoke pattern track.
When building a 64-spoke pattern over a former 44-spoke pattern,
the initial right-drop/left-drop when threading spokes through the hub
reverses, so
on the 4-spoke side, I route anti-J-spokes
through the original J-spoke holes.
So this hub's previous life was
a 44-spoke reverse Italian pattern build.
I received from a customer a pair of 50/45mm tall wavy-profile
Chinese carbon tubeless-ready rims.
Both are 24H, and I'll use the heavier one for the front wheel.
Built it.
Revo disc hub, 24H, black half CX sprint.
Built reverse Italian with 64-spoke pattern using black aluminum nipples.
I'll do the lacing later.
This hub is on loan from the customer, but despite the center-lock spline being pristine with no trace of rotor mounting marks,
the hub bearings are badly roughed up.
The customer noticed this themselves and
is requesting bearing replacement.
Given the estimated service life,
the bearing wear is premature, so
over-tightening the thru-axle is
likely the culprit.
On the 6-spoke side of the reverse Italian 64-spoke pattern,
I routed J-spokes through the original J-spoke holes,
but the spoke indentations on the hub flange
are located on the 4-spoke pattern track.
When building a 64-spoke pattern over a former 44-spoke pattern,
the initial right-drop/left-drop when threading spokes through the hub
reverses, so
on the 4-spoke side, I route anti-J-spokes
through the original J-spoke holes.
So this hub's previous life was
a 44-spoke reverse Italian pattern build.