A customer brought in a Bontrager rear wheel for servicing.

Most likely it came stock on a Trek complete bike.
The customer tried truing it themselves,
but apparently things went completely sideways, so they want me to fix it up properly.

I was worried that by obsessively tightening one nipple, we'd end up with serious radial runout
or stretching that causes plastic deformation—that "wobbly" phenomenon—
(though that's pretty unlikely with aero spokes of this cross-section)
and that it would be a real nightmare to fix.
But thankfully it wasn't that bad.


Looking at this rear hub, what strikes me is
it has paired spokes on the hub side to match the rim-side paired spoke phasing,
with what looks like reverse Italian lacing and such,
but I can't help thinking the left flange could sit a bit further out!
It would really transform the wheel with just that tiny change.
And there's no design reason it couldn't be that way.
Though to be fair, it's not that narrow as it is either.