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Johnny4428:
Not very good pics.

DomP:
Yes Johnny that's exactly the issue with mine, your photos show it perfectly! The way the butted end contacts the hub causes the spoke to arc towards the rim.  Hopefully that doesn't weaken them as a result but I can't see how they can say its right.

paul G:
I had exactly the same issue with them a while ago on the CD175 sloper rear wheel.
They were adamant that they were correct even though they didn't match the samples that were sent to them.
They wanted me to send them the wheel and they would lace it for £80, as I explained to them I was capable of doing it myself with the correct spokes as the samples they had.
After much ranting they did the wheel FOC just post costs.  >:( >:(

McCabe-Thiele (Ted):
I'm a complete chicken when it comes to wheel building so CWC did my 400 and at present have my 500 wheels.

It must be very satisfying to lace your own wheels. My brother is a very keen cyclist with over 40 years of experience. He used to cycle over 10k miles a year though he has slowed down a little now he is 65 but still hovers around the 8k miles a year mark. He uses a local retired wheel builder. He has recently bought a cycle wheel building rig - to date his fancy rig has yet to produce a single wheel. I think he quotes Technical issues -ffs it's not a jet engine I tell him.

Orcade-Ian:
I've had serious issues with that company too.  Most recently on a pair of sloper wheels with spokes too short.  I think I built those wheels 11 times as they kept asking for more and more photos. They kept quoting their 'bible' and years of experience and wanted us to pay for another set to my dimensions.  I said that if they were so confident that the ones they sent were correct, then put them back on the shelf and sell them to someone else and provide us with sets to my dimensions.  They accused me of lacing them incorrectly (more pics) then the rims must be wrong so I used a profile gauge on them and the originals (more pics) I was really pissed off with them by the end and will never deal with them again or recommend them to others.  Whether their system has changed or their 'bible' has been computerised (with all that that entails) I don't know but must have had 30 sets of spokes supplied correctly by them in the past without problems.
I can feel my blood pressure rising as I write this!  I was doing this as a favour for a mate!

Ian

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