Q: "Today also whee— (and so on)" — what does that mean?
A: Short for "Today I also built a wheel."
Don't point out that it's barely abbreviated at all.
So, today also whee— (and so on).
The carbon rims came in bulk as promised, but I haven't finished inspecting them yet so they're not ready to ship.
For now I pulled out a 50mm carbon and threw together a front wheel that was urgent.
Actually, all my wheels are urgent, though.
Built.
From about this rim height onwards, when you finish building, you enter the zone where
"spoke flex when squeezed is nearly unchanging."
It's not that the tension is high—the spokes themselves are simply shorter, so they deform less.
When you squeeze it feels fairly stiff, but when you measure with a tension meter,
the numbers are honestly not that impressive.
Spoke flex changes based on rim height (or more precisely, spoke shortness), so
for example a 38mm rim at 100 kgf and a 50mm rim at 85 kgf
can have nearly the same apparent amount of flex.
I can roughly gauge spoke tension by squeezing just with my Nomu Lab wheels 1 and 5 (though I always use the meter anyway),
but with rims I don't build with daily, I'm completely lost without a meter.
The privilege of 18H only—went with a Tni carbon hub.
You can use CX spokes too, but this time I went with CX-RAY.
Built it outpoke radial.
What's that? The Evo hub is 5g lighter on the catalog weight?
Shhhh!
A: Short for "Today I also built a wheel."
Don't point out that it's barely abbreviated at all.
So, today also whee— (and so on).
The carbon rims came in bulk as promised, but I haven't finished inspecting them yet so they're not ready to ship.
For now I pulled out a 50mm carbon and threw together a front wheel that was urgent.
Actually, all my wheels are urgent, though.
Built.
From about this rim height onwards, when you finish building, you enter the zone where
"spoke flex when squeezed is nearly unchanging."
It's not that the tension is high—the spokes themselves are simply shorter, so they deform less.
When you squeeze it feels fairly stiff, but when you measure with a tension meter,
the numbers are honestly not that impressive.
Spoke flex changes based on rim height (or more precisely, spoke shortness), so
for example a 38mm rim at 100 kgf and a 50mm rim at 85 kgf
can have nearly the same apparent amount of flex.
I can roughly gauge spoke tension by squeezing just with my Nomu Lab wheels 1 and 5 (though I always use the meter anyway),
but with rims I don't build with daily, I'm completely lost without a meter.
The privilege of 18H only—went with a Tni carbon hub.
You can use CX spokes too, but this time I went with CX-RAY.
Built it outpoke radial.
What's that? The Evo hub is 5g lighter on the catalog weight?
Shhhh!