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I thought about that, half way through. Couldn't be bothered to go out to the garage though :)

So, I spent maybe 45 minutes dismantling yesterday's efforts and a few minutes skimming through Sheldon's guide again. Then I was off to the livingroom with some Cinematic Orchestra on the hi-fi to keep the mood calm.

I laced the trailing spokes and started on the leading spokes. Half way through I managed to lose a nipple. After a little shaking the rim to get it out, one of my spokes fell off. Then another... then another. It almost went belly up at that point, but I kept my calm, stopped shaking the rim (stupid idea) and went around screwing all the nipples on a bit more and re-attaching the spokes/nipples that had fallen out. With them fastened a little more securely I managed to get the remaining nipples out and continued on.

So, anyway... 3 hours and 2 CDs later here's what I have!

I've tightened all the nipples more or less equally. Considering it hasn't been trued, it runs pretty true! And, I'm still in a good mood :) Apologies for the essay, but just needed to share my first minor victory!

Nice one!
You'll find truing much much easier starting from a near tru wheel.

That doesn't look right in the very least, especially on the 2 o'clock position (and the 4 o'clock etc.).

I think two of the front spoke heads are overlaping with the rear ones, due to the angle of the pic. Making it look wrong. It would take a large difference in spoke length to make the mistake you think you can see (if I'm looking at the same thing).

ftfy - good luck with it. i suppose you've laced wheels like that before?..

Cheers,
and nope, first time doing a triplet pattern. I have given myself extra room to feck it up by going for internal nipples as well.

I going to take my time with this build. Since I've spent a really stupid amount of time planning it (uber bike nerdism).

I'm going for maximum lateral stiffness (good hub dimensions, deep section rims, and 36 of the 44 spokes laced heads in), maximum drive stiffness (16 tangental DS spokes), and minimum weight (1.3Kg the pair). The wheels might end up being aero too. Being 48mm deep and laced with bladed spokes, and hidden nipples. But I havent spent much thought on that part.

At the very least the UD carbon looks very bling bling ;)