Another wheel day today (and so on).
But first.
↑This L-shaped hook that you fix with wood screws—
the product name is "yōore."
It's not a nickname given by any particular manufacturer,
it's actually a legitimate generic term,
short for 洋折釘 (yōore-kugi),
Western folding nail.
Separately, there's a hook shaped like ⊂ which
goes by the product name "yōoto,"
short for 洋灯吊 (yōotō-tsuri),
Western lamp suspension.
↑And then, separate from yōoto,
there are hooks with an almost completely closed shape
called "hīton."
This name supposedly comes from piton,
a climbing wedge
(Haaken in German, piton in French),
a corruption of piton that's only used in Japan.
In Japanese it's also called 丸環 (maruwa) screw.
Given that etymology, I think it should be written in katakana,
but on blister packs sold at home improvement stores,
some manufacturers match the spelling style
of yōore and yōoto
and write it as "hīton."
Everything up to this point
has absolutely nothing to do with what follows. Just so you know.
Another wheel day today (and so on).
A customer brought in a Yeoreo
Pro C35 front wheel for rebuilding.
Yeoreo brand front hub, 24H
built equal-sided (0/4 equivalent)
Spokes with Pillar's aero profile shape
triple-butted spokes
with the neck section tapered down to 2.2mm.
The rim has no holes on the outer surface except for the valve hole,
so if you transplant new spokes without
dropping the nipples into the rim bed,
you could theoretically reuse the nipples,
but the customer wants silver spokes and silver nipples, and
I've also got in a Tni
equal-sided/both-sides-tangent laced
straight spoke hub, a BITE hub,
along with the wheel for rebuilding,
so I'm not reusing any of the original spokes or nipples.
As for choosing this hub—
I might make the same call myself.
It's unbelievable that even in the 2020s
they're still shipping wheels with equal spoke count
but radial lacing on one side only.
Built.
BITE hub 24H, half-CX sprint
2-cross forced equal-sided lacing with cross bracing.
But first.
↑This L-shaped hook that you fix with wood screws—
the product name is "yōore."
It's not a nickname given by any particular manufacturer,
it's actually a legitimate generic term,
short for 洋折釘 (yōore-kugi),
Western folding nail.
Separately, there's a hook shaped like ⊂ which
goes by the product name "yōoto,"
short for 洋灯吊 (yōotō-tsuri),
Western lamp suspension.
↑And then, separate from yōoto,
there are hooks with an almost completely closed shape
called "hīton."
This name supposedly comes from piton,
a climbing wedge
(Haaken in German, piton in French),
a corruption of piton that's only used in Japan.
In Japanese it's also called 丸環 (maruwa) screw.
Given that etymology, I think it should be written in katakana,
but on blister packs sold at home improvement stores,
some manufacturers match the spelling style
of yōore and yōoto
and write it as "hīton."
Everything up to this point
has absolutely nothing to do with what follows. Just so you know.
Another wheel day today (and so on).
A customer brought in a Yeoreo
Pro C35 front wheel for rebuilding.
Yeoreo brand front hub, 24H
built equal-sided (0/4 equivalent)
Spokes with Pillar's aero profile shape
triple-butted spokes
with the neck section tapered down to 2.2mm.
The rim has no holes on the outer surface except for the valve hole,
so if you transplant new spokes without
dropping the nipples into the rim bed,
you could theoretically reuse the nipples,
but the customer wants silver spokes and silver nipples, and
I've also got in a Tni
equal-sided/both-sides-tangent laced
straight spoke hub, a BITE hub,
along with the wheel for rebuilding,
so I'm not reusing any of the original spokes or nipples.
As for choosing this hub—
I might make the same call myself.
It's unbelievable that even in the 2020s
they're still shipping wheels with equal spoke count
but radial lacing on one side only.
Built.
BITE hub 24H, half-CX sprint
2-cross forced equal-sided lacing with cross bracing.