Wheels for the Briz
Finished up the wheels for my buddy Briz tonight. For his build he wanted nice wide rims so he went with the new Mavic EN 521. It’s surprisingly light for such a stout wheel. Mavic markets it for “enduro and light free-riding” If briz breaks one of these he’s done something horribly wrong. He went with King hubs and dt comp 2.0/1.8 spokes. We used the prolock alloy nipples. I really like the pro lock niples as they really seem to hold tight not to mention they eliminate the mess of dealing with spoke prep. Makes the whole process a little faster. They are a little harder to turn when tensioning though so you have to be much more careful not to round them off.As long as you’re not too ham fisted about it they’re work awesome. These took a bit more tension to get them up to my standards of roud and tru. The welds are also really beefy on these which made the really fine nit picky truing a pain in the ass as it would get to the point where the weld was clanking against the calipers. This was the case for both getting it in round and true.
I think brizn is gonna be very pleased with these new wheels. After this set I’ve build 5 wheels in the past few days while sick. At least i was doing something bike related. Now enough building I need to ride. I think I’ll be better for the weekend and I’ll be able to make up for some lost time. Maybe sometime soon I’ll get around to rebuilding the wheel on my poor blur that’s had a hop in it for the past year. I guess it’s the whole shoemakers kids kinda thing 