A customer brought in a rear wheel from a Shamal Mille for repair.
The rear derailleur caught it and bent some spokes.
↑There it is.
Just these two spokes,
but amazingly enough they managed to get caught, and there were scratches on the inside as well.
All fixed.
By the way, with the Shamal Mille, the plasma electrolytic oxidation treatment on the brake zone makes the front wheel slightly heavier than the Shamal Ultra WO version.
But on the rear wheel, the Shamal Mille is actually slightly lighter.
With Campagnolo's medium-height rim wheels, the rear rim has a greater height than the front.
I've had customers who didn't realize this tell me, "The 2WAY-FIT valve on the rear wheel is shorter and harder to pump air into,"
but the 2WAY-FIT valve comes in only one specification,
and since the rear rim has greater height, only the amount of valve protruding changes—the valve itself isn't actually shorter.
The Shamal Mille also has different rim heights front and rear,
but where the Shamal Ultra has a 6mm difference (24/30mm), the Shamal Mille has a 4mm difference (23/27mm),
so the weight difference from the different rim heights is smaller,
which is why the rear wheel is lighter than the Shamal Ultra.
Since the surface hardness of the rim increased, they probably decided they could keep the strength and stiffness while reducing the rim height.
What's important to me though isn't that, but whether the spoke part number changes with this difference in rim height.
This is cleverly worked out—even though the rim height changes, the effective dimension at the base where the nipple engages is kept nearly the same,
so we can repair it with the same spokes as the Shamal Ultra.
The rear derailleur caught it and bent some spokes.
↑There it is.
Just these two spokes,
but amazingly enough they managed to get caught, and there were scratches on the inside as well.
All fixed.
By the way, with the Shamal Mille, the plasma electrolytic oxidation treatment on the brake zone makes the front wheel slightly heavier than the Shamal Ultra WO version.
But on the rear wheel, the Shamal Mille is actually slightly lighter.
With Campagnolo's medium-height rim wheels, the rear rim has a greater height than the front.
I've had customers who didn't realize this tell me, "The 2WAY-FIT valve on the rear wheel is shorter and harder to pump air into,"
but the 2WAY-FIT valve comes in only one specification,
and since the rear rim has greater height, only the amount of valve protruding changes—the valve itself isn't actually shorter.
The Shamal Mille also has different rim heights front and rear,
but where the Shamal Ultra has a 6mm difference (24/30mm), the Shamal Mille has a 4mm difference (23/27mm),
so the weight difference from the different rim heights is smaller,
which is why the rear wheel is lighter than the Shamal Ultra.
Since the surface hardness of the rim increased, they probably decided they could keep the strength and stiffness while reducing the rim height.
What's important to me though isn't that, but whether the spoke part number changes with this difference in rim height.
This is cleverly worked out—even though the rim height changes, the effective dimension at the base where the nipple engages is kept nearly the same,
so we can repair it with the same spokes as the Shamal Ultra.