Another day, another wheel build (et cetera).
A customer brought in the front and rear wheels
of a Rover Alpinist CLX II
that they wanted rebuilt.
Today I'm working on the front wheel.
It's no longer using the barrel-shaped hub
that was shared with the CLX 50,
but it still has the same 2:1 lacing pattern with 21 spokes,
and the spoke angles are pretty much unchanged.
The spokes on both sides are Aero Lite.
The final crossing on the tangent-laced side
isn't woven (touching) together,
but I needed to weave it in for the spoke tying.
Rebuilt.
I replaced the spokes on the lower spoke count side
with CX Sprint and tied them in.
I've serviced other wheels belonging to this wheel's owner before,
and I noticed that
the center lock rotor rings
on them are surprisingly heavy when you hold them solo—
they're budget-grade, non-aluminum,
externally-threaded varieties,
and what's consistent is that
there's a valve cap that doubles as a valve tool
attached to it.
A customer brought in the front and rear wheels
of a Rover Alpinist CLX II
that they wanted rebuilt.
Today I'm working on the front wheel.
It's no longer using the barrel-shaped hub
that was shared with the CLX 50,
but it still has the same 2:1 lacing pattern with 21 spokes,
and the spoke angles are pretty much unchanged.
The spokes on both sides are Aero Lite.
The final crossing on the tangent-laced side
isn't woven (touching) together,
but I needed to weave it in for the spoke tying.
Rebuilt.
I replaced the spokes on the lower spoke count side
with CX Sprint and tied them in.
I've serviced other wheels belonging to this wheel's owner before,
and I noticed that
the center lock rotor rings
on them are surprisingly heavy when you hold them solo—
they're budget-grade, non-aluminum,
externally-threaded varieties,
and what's consistent is that
there's a valve cap that doubles as a valve tool
attached to it.