A customer left a Hyperon rear wheel with me.
It had taken a dramatic spill into a metal grating, so the customer wanted an inspection.
There are some scuff marks on the rim side, but unfortunately there's not much we can do about that.
Before truing, the temporary center showed no offset,
but the spoke tension was clearly low, so I re-tensioned the wheel.
They wanted me to swap in a Shimano 11-speed white aluminum freehub
with a quieter ratchet sound, so that's what I did.
The original Shimano aero spoke magnet was wrapped all over with self-fusing tape,
and they asked me to improve on that setup. So I removed the spoke temporarily
to fit heat shrink tubing, then attached a neodymium magnet
at the same position on the same spoke as before and secured it with heat shrink tubing.
Since the magnetic force is stronger than the original state, I think this works well.
↑This is what was originally wrapped in tape.
That blob you see below the sprocket in the opening photo—that's a praying mantis egg case.
It had taken a dramatic spill into a metal grating, so the customer wanted an inspection.
There are some scuff marks on the rim side, but unfortunately there's not much we can do about that.
Before truing, the temporary center showed no offset,
but the spoke tension was clearly low, so I re-tensioned the wheel.
They wanted me to swap in a Shimano 11-speed white aluminum freehub
with a quieter ratchet sound, so that's what I did.
The original Shimano aero spoke magnet was wrapped all over with self-fusing tape,
and they asked me to improve on that setup. So I removed the spoke temporarily
to fit heat shrink tubing, then attached a neodymium magnet
at the same position on the same spoke as before and secured it with heat shrink tubing.
Since the magnetic force is stronger than the original state, I think this works well.
↑This is what was originally wrapped in tape.
That blob you see below the sprocket in the opening photo—that's a praying mantis egg case.