A customer brought in a Ksyrium 125 for service.

I hesitated about posting the front wheel here,
but the customer said it was fine.
There's a reason why 4 spokes have become cosmetic spokes.
Ksyrium spare spokes used to come in units of half the wheel count (front: 9 spokes, rear: 10 spokes)
as standard spokes + cosmetic spokes together,
but with recent models they're supplied in units of either "a bundle of standard spokes" or "1 cosmetic spoke,"
so for repairs of 2-3 spokes,
it's more efficient to order just the right number of cosmetic spokes
with no waste.

So whoever did this repair would recognize
it as "my own work" if they saw it,


The wheel center was misaligned.
Front wheels don't typically develop center shifts from normal use over time,
so the previous work didn't have enough final tensioning.


The original reason the customer brought it in was suspicion of rear wheel center misalignment,
and that one was right on the money.
There was slight runout,
but it was minimal—even removing all of it wouldn't cause center shift
(because I'm correcting it properly in that process).