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Silly question, the right side of a wheel is the 'drive side' isn't it?
Just had a rear wheel built, and to my eyes the labels are on the wrong way.
Before I take it back,looking at the 'cog' side, the rim label should read left to right, yeah?
I know it in no way affects the functionality of the wheel, but the labels should all be facing the right way. :)
Could you peel off the sticker and turn it round?
@wee folding bike: That's almost a tech support solution.
"Have you tried taking it off and putting it back on again?"
My other issue is that the hub label isn't lined up with the valve hole. My head is hurting looking at it. Maybe should have built it myself.
Technically you may be right, in that, I read in the Wheel Building section of the Book of Zinn, that the holes in the rim for the spokes should be slightly biased. i.e. Every even other hole is biased to one side, with every odd biased to the other, but in practice the rim I bought was not labled and I could not tell by looking at it. Does it really make such a difference?
As for the logo being visible from the valve hole, thats just anal. Stuff that.
I ended up taking it back, they are going to sort it. :)
Yes, I was being anal, the wheel was indeed perfectly functional. It would have just annoyed me every time I looked at the bike to have labels facing in different directions.
They did seem quite surprised I had even noticed, and all had a little confab whilst looking at the wheel offering opinion as to whether I was right or not.
Some rims have the holes angled. Brompton changed theirs in 2013 so the back and front rims aren't the same anymore, rear is angled, front isn't.
@wfb - far be it for me to slight a more experienced Bromptonista, yet my 2013 dynamo wheeled, hub geared Brompton has crossing spokes (hence angle drilled) front and rear.
I think they may have gone for radial spokes (straight drilled) for the non-dynamo and non-hub geared wheels, although I can't be certain.
Robert
@BaldCyclist
Excellent critique. You should be able to read the writing on the hub when looking down through the valve hole in the rim, and angle-drilled rims' chirality must be respected.
Have you checked that the inner tube has been installed the right way round?
When pumping up the tyres I tend to just look for the sticking-out valve, rather than attempting to discern which bit of greyish-brown muck is concealing the wheel label, rim sticker or hub writing.
@wingpig
I expect the slots in your spoke nipples are all over the place.
Lining up the stickers (and the tyre logo) with the valve hole isn't anal, it saves vital seconds in locating the valve hole. It also looks better and things that look good go faster, right?
"A clean bike goes faster and lasts longer – WHY?"
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@Kaputnik
Don't get me started on mis-aligned handlebar grips or asymmetric bar tape.
'vital seconds'!!!!!!! ....
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@DaveC
Remember that we are but dust and to dust we shall return.
There's more to life than fruitlesly seeking valves.
Don't worry I'm on your side IWRATS... ;O)
the holes in the rim for the spokes should be slightly biased
If the manufacturer went to that bother they would throw it to the marketing department as a selling point:
Wheel rim marketing by Cycling Mollie, on Flickr
@CyclingMollie
Nice alignment of the spoke nipples. The red anodised finish picks up the bar tape, yes?
Lining up the stickers (and the tyre logo) with the valve hole isn't anal, it saves vital seconds in locating the valve hole.
Not only does tyre label alignment add valuable OCD points, it makes it easier to locate a hole if the Faeries attack.
I may or may not have oriented inner tubes with respect to their labels.
"...or asymmetric bar tape"
On the right-hand of my handlebar I have brown pseudo-polyurethane pockled tape. On the left side, plain black tape. One day, perhaps in another two years' time, I shall get round to replacing the left side, if I can still find the box in which the brown tape came.
When I have to take off a tyre I mark where the valve was by scraping a clean patch in the muck, in case I need to try and locate a tyre-intruder from the position of the hole in the inner.
@wingpig
By 'asymmetric' I meant matching tape wound to a different pitch. What you have described is heretical bar tape.
I once had a bike where the spoke nipples were red but all the coloured trim on the rest of it was yellow. It was awful.
"yellow. It was awful."
(Did I miss something...)
I once had a bike where I had a different type of rim on each wheel, a different make of tyre on each wheel, a different size of tyre on each wheel, a different type of brake front and back, a different colour of mudguard front and back, the different tape on each side of the handlebars, two colours of brake outer and three colours of gear outer and to cap it all, a chainring on only one side, rather than bilaterally-symmetrical dual chainrings.
Never get yourself X-rayed, IWRATS. Your internal organs have such a lack of respect for symmetry it'd probably give you the heebies.
I've had bikes like that which is why I like my bike that's not like that so much.
Ah, better...;)
And the hub logo is also pleasingly visible through the valve hole.
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