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Ok, so spokes have arrived and I decided to build the rear wheel first as I was quite eager to build it. So I started from the drive side and aligned the spoke holes in the 2:1 drilled rim with the hub, all the spokes were laced. I then turned my attention to the NDS and then suddenly realised that the spoke holes were out by 1 hole...
Because the NDS only has 8 radial spokes and the DS has 16 in 2X, it will only work when the spokes are aligned in every second rotation of the drive side if that makes sense... so I had to unlace the wheel again. This wasn't helped by the fact that I managed to drop about 5 nipples inside the rim in the process, they weren't so easy to fish out as they are slightly longer than normal.
Anyway, I relaced the rim correctly this time, slowly building up the tension on the wheels. Every time I build a set of wheels I'm always a bit nervous that the spoke length is incorrect and the spokes will either be too short or long. Thankfully this didn't happen and I managed to get a nice 110-120kgf on the drive side and a 80-90kgf on the non-drive side. Really strange to see such even tension on such a heavily dished wheel. Side to side truing was not that difficult as the rim is really stiff in both directions.
I went for a matte black finish on the rims and put some glossy decals on the rims for as stealth look.
The front wheel, was comparatively easy and straightforward, 20 radial spokes and they just went in fine.
The calculated target weight for the Wheelset was about 1460g and came to 1466 in reality, the tape added about 28 grams probably as it was double layered on both. Not too shabby for a 56mm deep build with brass nipples.