A customer brought in a Ksyrium SL for repair.
This is the standard version Ksyrium SL, which is the Ksyrium ES (2006 limited edition model)
that went into regular production after its limited run ended.
So aside from minor details like hub flange color, spoke color, and stickers,
it's identical to the Ksyrium ES.
The rear derailleur got caught up, so the spokes are in pretty bad shape apparently,
and they were indeed in pretty bad shape.
All fixed now.
I always ask customers if they want me to discard the removed spokes or if they'd like to take them home as a keepsake.
This time they wanted to take them, so I hurried to snap a photo.
The front wheel didn't just need a quick once-over—I didn't even replace any spokes on it,
yet it took even longer than the rear wheel.
After replacing the rear wheel spokes and truing most of the runout,
when I checked the temporary center point, it was off by about half the thickness of a one-yen coin.
This could've been caused by my work too.
But the front wheel had almost no lateral runout yet was similarly off-center.
That alone wouldn't be too difficult to fix, but
there was radial runout in one spot that was about one-fifth the width of the brake zone,
and when you spun the wheel it wobbled noticeably with a rippling motion.
If the radial runout were at the rim seam, that might be unavoidable,
but this was completely unrelated to that.
When I asked the customer "Have you had the wheel trued many times before?"
they said they hadn't particularly, but it was the kind of radial runout that makes you ask that question.
Since the rim itself wasn't bent, I figured it should be fixable!
So I worked pretty hard to eliminate that radial runout.
This is the standard version Ksyrium SL, which is the Ksyrium ES (2006 limited edition model)
that went into regular production after its limited run ended.
So aside from minor details like hub flange color, spoke color, and stickers,
it's identical to the Ksyrium ES.
The rear derailleur got caught up, so the spokes are in pretty bad shape apparently,
and they were indeed in pretty bad shape.
All fixed now.
I always ask customers if they want me to discard the removed spokes or if they'd like to take them home as a keepsake.
This time they wanted to take them, so I hurried to snap a photo.
The front wheel didn't just need a quick once-over—I didn't even replace any spokes on it,
yet it took even longer than the rear wheel.
After replacing the rear wheel spokes and truing most of the runout,
when I checked the temporary center point, it was off by about half the thickness of a one-yen coin.
This could've been caused by my work too.
But the front wheel had almost no lateral runout yet was similarly off-center.
That alone wouldn't be too difficult to fix, but
there was radial runout in one spot that was about one-fifth the width of the brake zone,
and when you spun the wheel it wobbled noticeably with a rippling motion.
If the radial runout were at the rim seam, that might be unavoidable,
but this was completely unrelated to that.
When I asked the customer "Have you had the wheel trued many times before?"
they said they hadn't particularly, but it was the kind of radial runout that makes you ask that question.
Since the rim itself wasn't bent, I figured it should be fixable!
So I worked pretty hard to eliminate that radial runout.