Ksyrium SLS

I received a Ksyrium SLS from a customer.
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This one didn't have any major wobble or centering issues either.

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The Ksyrium K10 has the rim-side machining very noticeably in aluminum silver, but
on the SLS the entire rim is anodized black.

Continuing from my earlier post,
I wrote about how Ksyrium limited models become standard models in the following years.
By that logic, this would seem to be the standard model version of the K10, but...

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↑The rear wheel has fish-tail spokes, but
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the front wheel has spokes that transition immediately from round to flattened.
The flattened section of these spokes is slightly narrower than
the aluminum spokes used on earlier Ksyrium models, suggesting they aimed for lightness.

Wheels like the Ksyrium 125 also use these spokes on the rear,
but since the rear wheel is essentially R-SYS,
they probably chose this considering the balance with carbon spokes.

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