Rear track hub with Corima rim

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Can anyone help me out. I have a 24-hole Corima rim, taken from a rear road wheel (9-speed). I
want to lace this rim to a track hub (Royce 120mm). However, I am wondering whether the rim will
allow for the different angle of the spoke nipple - because a track hub is significantly wider on
the drive side. Are the spoke nipples 'seated' inside the rim in a way that allows little movement
or can the angle at which they leave the rim be altered enough to allow for a track hub?

You should be OK...

Worst case: try it and see.

Mike

I think I'll give it a go. I haven't paid for the hub yet - parting with £120 before I know for sure it will work is worrying - but I had a good look last night and the nipples are seated in the same position in the rim regardless of whether they go to the l;eft or right hand side of the hub - so I think corima has built the rim to be used with any hub. Anyone with a different opinion (or something I haven't thought of yet please let me know. Also, which spokes should I use? I'm light (on 5'6"😉 so I was thinking of trying to track down some Spaim CX Ray spokes and 3 crossing them on the drive side then putting the same or DT blades on the non-drive side.

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I think I'll give it a go. I haven't paid for the hub yet - parting with £120 before I know for
sure it will work is worrying - but I had a good look last night and the nipples are seated in the
same position in the rim regardless of whether they go to the l;eft or right hand side of the hub
- so I think corima has built the rim to be used with any hub. Anyone with a different opinion (or
something I haven't thought of yet please let me know. Also, which spokes should I use? I'm light
(on 5'6"😉 so I was thinking of trying to track down some Spaim CX Ray spokes and 3 crossing them
on the drive side then putting the same or DT blades on the non-drive side.

I built my Zipp 404s up with custom cut 15ga (IIRC) spokes. You're probably going to have a tough
time finding the right length spokes for an odd rim/hub combo like you're running, so you may be
forced to find an LBS with a Phil Wood spoke cutter (or something similar in the UK).

I'd stick with 2x on both sides of the wheel. I'd bet that 3x is going to cross over the heads of
the spokes. 2x is plenty stiff for my fat ass (at 180#)...

Let us know how it turns out.

Mike

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hub - so I think corima has built the rim to be used with any hub.

In general, any rim can be used with any hub as long as the number of=20 spoke holes is correct.

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Anyone with a different opinion (or something I haven't thought of yet please let me know. Also,
which spokes should I use? I'm light (on 5'6"=

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crossing them on the drive side then putting the same or DT blades on the non-drive side.

Doesn't make a lot of sense to mix spokes on a fixed gear wheel, 'cause=20 there isn't enough dish
to matter.

=A3120 is a lot for a hub. If it were me, I'd look for something less =

expensive in a hub, probably a 36 hole one (lots more to choose from in=20 that drilling, and it's
easy enough to lace a 36 hole hub to a 24 hole ri=
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Trackwheel said:

I think I'll give it a go. I haven't paid for the hub yet - parting with £120 before I know for
sure it will work is worrying - but I had a good look last night and the nipples are seated in the
same position in the rim regardless of whether they go to the l;eft or right hand side of the hub -
so I think corima has built the rim to be used with any hub. Anyone with a different opinion (or
something I haven't thought of yet please let me know. Also, which spokes should I use? I'm light
(on 5'6"😉 so I was thinking of trying to track down some Spaim CX Ray spokes and 3 crossing them on
the drive side then putting the same or DT blades on the non-drive side.

I think you'll be all right with the nipples the way Corima has them positioned.

24 spokes? Any gauge spoke will work in a rim that stiff and strong. Bontragers use just 16 DT Swiss
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