Another wheel day (and so on...).
Continuing from yesterday.
I'm rebuilding the rear wheel on the Alpinist CLX II.
↑This image was taken for an article about
the tooth count configuration of SRAM's 12-speed sprocket,
so I won't touch on it in this post.
The other rear wheel I worked on before had a Shimano HG freebody,
but this one has a SRAM XDR freebody.
Rebuilt it.
I completely disassembled the wheel,
changed the spokes on the non-freewheel side from Aero Lite to
CX Sprint spokes,
wove the final crossing on the freewheel side, and tensioned everything.
↑Front hub
↑Rear hub
Lovari's CLX II has both front and rear hubs as model updates
compared to the visually high-low flange hubs of the CLX 50,
but the front hub's final crossing angle is
still as sharp as the CLX 50 hub in theory,
though the rear hub is considerably improved.
I wrote about "visually only high-low flange hubs"
in an earlier article about Deda wheels (→here).
The image above is from that article showing the CLX 50 hub.
If you extend the straight spoke with the taped arrow
to a position that can be interpreted as extending tangentially from the hub flange,
the spoke head would be at the white dot position.
If there were a hole for a bent-spoke head at the white dot position,
it wouldn't be as high-low flange as it appears.
On the CLX 50 hub, the white dot and
the actual spoke head position
are quite far apart, but
on Campagnolo's Bora and
the Deda rear wheel in the article,
the white dot and actual spoke head position
are nearly identical,
so they have a truly high-low flange design as they appear.
This and the fact that "Lovari wheels somehow don't ride well"
are not unrelated—rather, it's at the core of the issue.
Up to this point, I've rebuilt two pairs
of front and rear wheels for the Alpinist CLX II,
and I've also measured the rim weights.
Only the second pair's rear wheel in this post
has a balance weight attached, as you can see if you look
closely at the image at the beginning of this article,
so the measured weight is just a reference.
Though honestly, I have no intention of telling anyone
what the actual weights are anyway.
↑ugh, that's a bad attitude
Sorry for the wait! Please check out this image!
First pair's front rim!
First pair's rear rim!
Second pair's front rim!
Second pair's rear rim (with weight)!
↑Come ooooon!
Continuing from yesterday.
I'm rebuilding the rear wheel on the Alpinist CLX II.
↑This image was taken for an article about
the tooth count configuration of SRAM's 12-speed sprocket,
so I won't touch on it in this post.
The other rear wheel I worked on before had a Shimano HG freebody,
but this one has a SRAM XDR freebody.
Rebuilt it.
I completely disassembled the wheel,
changed the spokes on the non-freewheel side from Aero Lite to
CX Sprint spokes,
wove the final crossing on the freewheel side, and tensioned everything.
↑Front hub
↑Rear hub
Lovari's CLX II has both front and rear hubs as model updates
compared to the visually high-low flange hubs of the CLX 50,
but the front hub's final crossing angle is
still as sharp as the CLX 50 hub in theory,
though the rear hub is considerably improved.
I wrote about "visually only high-low flange hubs"
in an earlier article about Deda wheels (→here).
The image above is from that article showing the CLX 50 hub.
If you extend the straight spoke with the taped arrow
to a position that can be interpreted as extending tangentially from the hub flange,
the spoke head would be at the white dot position.
If there were a hole for a bent-spoke head at the white dot position,
it wouldn't be as high-low flange as it appears.
On the CLX 50 hub, the white dot and
the actual spoke head position
are quite far apart, but
on Campagnolo's Bora and
the Deda rear wheel in the article,
the white dot and actual spoke head position
are nearly identical,
so they have a truly high-low flange design as they appear.
This and the fact that "Lovari wheels somehow don't ride well"
are not unrelated—rather, it's at the core of the issue.
Up to this point, I've rebuilt two pairs
of front and rear wheels for the Alpinist CLX II,
and I've also measured the rim weights.
Only the second pair's rear wheel in this post
has a balance weight attached, as you can see if you look
closely at the image at the beginning of this article,
so the measured weight is just a reference.
Though honestly, I have no intention of telling anyone
what the actual weights are anyway.
↑ugh, that's a bad attitude
Sorry for the wait! Please check out this image!
First pair's front rim!
First pair's rear rim!
Second pair's front rim!
Second pair's rear rim (with weight)!
↑Come ooooon!