A customer brought in a pair of front and rear Attaquer Disc V2 wheels for Prime disc brake rims for inspection.
They wanted a full inspection.
Let's start with the rear wheel.
Prime brand hub and
Prime brand aluminum rim built into a complete wheel.
The model name is ATTAQUER, but this is completely unrelated to the separate ATTAQUE (Attaki) wheel brand.
By the way, Attaki thought "we should try making frames too" and that's how GUSTO was born.
Looking at the spoke head stamps, they're DT spokes, and judging from the slot on the nipple wrench tool, it's a left-right differential size build with Aero Comp/Aero Lite spokes.
Only the freewheel side has the final cross pattern laced.
The wheel center was quite far off.
Plus it wasn't just lateral runout—there was radial runout too.
The way the runout presented itself suggested that rather than poor initial building, someone had properly built the wheel and then blindly turned random nipples while their eyes were closed.
It was chaotic runout.
There's slight evidence of use, but the runout didn't develop from riding—it was like this from the factory.
I trued both the lateral and radial runout and re-centered the wheel.
I applied the usual Scope Cycling engagement grease generously to the ratchet face, but the originally high-pitched freewheel noise didn't become nearly silent or anything like that.
Not much changed really.
Now for the front wheel.
It's a left-right differential size build with Aero Lite/Aero Comp spokes, but unlike the rear wheel, neither side has the final cross pattern.
The provisional center was spot-on, but there's lateral runout on both sides.
Unlike the rear wheel, there was no significant radial runout.
After completing the runout truing, the wheel center shifted.
If I were to recenter from here with a tightening tendency, I'd need to increase tension on the high-tension side further, but since the front wheel was quite loose, I could do the recenting from here by tightening up the high-tension side.
I recentered the wheel.
With these front and rear wheels, it felt like I'd been handed partially-built wheels and asked to "finish these from here."
They wanted a full inspection.
Let's start with the rear wheel.
Prime brand hub and
Prime brand aluminum rim built into a complete wheel.
The model name is ATTAQUER, but this is completely unrelated to the separate ATTAQUE (Attaki) wheel brand.
By the way, Attaki thought "we should try making frames too" and that's how GUSTO was born.
Looking at the spoke head stamps, they're DT spokes, and judging from the slot on the nipple wrench tool, it's a left-right differential size build with Aero Comp/Aero Lite spokes.
Only the freewheel side has the final cross pattern laced.
The wheel center was quite far off.
Plus it wasn't just lateral runout—there was radial runout too.
The way the runout presented itself suggested that rather than poor initial building, someone had properly built the wheel and then blindly turned random nipples while their eyes were closed.
It was chaotic runout.
There's slight evidence of use, but the runout didn't develop from riding—it was like this from the factory.
I trued both the lateral and radial runout and re-centered the wheel.
I applied the usual Scope Cycling engagement grease generously to the ratchet face, but the originally high-pitched freewheel noise didn't become nearly silent or anything like that.
Not much changed really.
Now for the front wheel.
It's a left-right differential size build with Aero Lite/Aero Comp spokes, but unlike the rear wheel, neither side has the final cross pattern.
The provisional center was spot-on, but there's lateral runout on both sides.
Unlike the rear wheel, there was no significant radial runout.
After completing the runout truing, the wheel center shifted.
If I were to recenter from here with a tightening tendency, I'd need to increase tension on the high-tension side further, but since the front wheel was quite loose, I could do the recenting from here by tightening up the high-tension side.
I recentered the wheel.
With these front and rear wheels, it felt like I'd been handed partially-built wheels and asked to "finish these from here."