Q: "Today also whee... (etc.)" — what does that mean?
A: It's short for "Today I also built a wheel."
Don't point out that it's not really abbreviated — that's strictly forbidden.
So, today also whee... (etc.).
Carbon rims arrived in bulk as promised, but I haven't inspected them yet so they're not ready to ship.
For now I pulled out a 50mm carbon rim and built a front wheel that was urgently needed.
Well, actually all of these wheels are urgent orders anyway.
Done.
As expected, at this rim height range, once you finish building,
you reach a point where "spoke deflection when squeezed is virtually negligible."
It's not that the tension is high — it's that the spokes are so short that the deflection is naturally minimal.
When you squeeze it feels quite stiff, but when you measure with a tension meter,
the actual numbers aren't that impressive.
Spoke deflection changes based on rim height (or more precisely, spoke length), so
for example, 100kgf on a 38mm rim and 85kgf on a 50mm rim
might show about the same apparent deflection when squeezed.
With just Nomu Lab wheels No. 1 and No. 5, I can estimate spoke tension pretty well by squeezing (but I still use the meter 100% of the time).
With rims I don't build with regularly though, I'm lost without a meter.
The privilege of 18H only — went with a Tni carbon hub.
CX spokes would work too, but this time I used CX-RAY.
Built it as a radial lacing pattern, not reverse.
What's that? The Evo hub is 5g lighter by catalog weight?
Shhhh!
A: It's short for "Today I also built a wheel."
Don't point out that it's not really abbreviated — that's strictly forbidden.
So, today also whee... (etc.).
Carbon rims arrived in bulk as promised, but I haven't inspected them yet so they're not ready to ship.
For now I pulled out a 50mm carbon rim and built a front wheel that was urgently needed.
Well, actually all of these wheels are urgent orders anyway.
Done.
As expected, at this rim height range, once you finish building,
you reach a point where "spoke deflection when squeezed is virtually negligible."
It's not that the tension is high — it's that the spokes are so short that the deflection is naturally minimal.
When you squeeze it feels quite stiff, but when you measure with a tension meter,
the actual numbers aren't that impressive.
Spoke deflection changes based on rim height (or more precisely, spoke length), so
for example, 100kgf on a 38mm rim and 85kgf on a 50mm rim
might show about the same apparent deflection when squeezed.
With just Nomu Lab wheels No. 1 and No. 5, I can estimate spoke tension pretty well by squeezing (but I still use the meter 100% of the time).
With rims I don't build with regularly though, I'm lost without a meter.
The privilege of 18H only — went with a Tni carbon hub.
CX spokes would work too, but this time I used CX-RAY.
Built it as a radial lacing pattern, not reverse.
What's that? The Evo hub is 5g lighter by catalog weight?
Shhhh!