A customer brought in a bike that had crashed.

The left blade of the front fork has been scraped up.
This is a KING3 fork, but
De Rosa Japan has a certain measure in place
to instantly identify parallel imports.
The ones handled by the official Japanese distributor
all have Japan-original color paint jobs,
so anyone who knows can tell right away.
Global model paint = ordered online, that's the deal.


The gouge was deeper than just the paint, but not too deep, so


I filled it in.

Getting it perfectly flush is difficult.

Next up is the wheel. It took a hit on the left side.
When you crash on the left side, it's not absolutely guaranteed
that the right dropout won't bend, but in this case the rear dropout came out fine.
As for component damage, I just bent back an inward-folded lever.

The wheel is clearly pretty beat up, but

due to my habit of always shooting from the right side,
I ended up photographing the good side.


↑ the not-so-good side
Three spokes are bent, and especially the middle one is

gouged out.

Also, the rim's bead hook was covered in scratches.
Since I hadn't removed the tire yet, the scratch positions match up.
The tire ended up needing to be disposed of.
The scratched-up sections in the brake zone
I was able to smooth out with a file for usable condition, but

↑ the gouge damage here is especially severe.


The bead hook isn't actually bent,
so if we fill it with the right material it should be almost as good as new,
but the customer is going to give that a try themselves,
so I'm just doing the spoke replacement.


Done replacing them.



Every spoke has not only scratches but is also slightly bent inward.