Another wheel day (and so on).
A customer had left me an Aksium 125 that got caught up in a crash, with almost all the spokes deformed.
Except for five consecutive spokes on one side that survived intact,
all the remaining spokes needed to be replaced.
With the wheel in that condition, there's no way the rim could have escaped damage,
and it had warped pretty badly (what we call "potatochiping"), so the rim needed replacing too.
This wheel has a founding year marking, but it doesn't have a
serial number in the ××××/6000 format.
This is because this rim was already a replacement part.
Replaced it with a new rim and spokes.
The five spokes that survived are being reused.
This is the third rim that's been built up on this hub.
The second one was (→here)
Follow-up note:
Someone asked if the link was wrong.
No, it's correct.
Aksium 125 rim damaged → learned that cosmetic spokes (yellow spokes) were sold separately
rebuilt with four yellow spokes (that's the state shown in the linked post) →
got caught up in a crash at Suzuka on New Year's and lost all but five spokes (the state at the start of this post)
that's how it came about.
A customer had left me an Aksium 125 that got caught up in a crash, with almost all the spokes deformed.
Except for five consecutive spokes on one side that survived intact,
all the remaining spokes needed to be replaced.
With the wheel in that condition, there's no way the rim could have escaped damage,
and it had warped pretty badly (what we call "potatochiping"), so the rim needed replacing too.
This wheel has a founding year marking, but it doesn't have a
serial number in the ××××/6000 format.
This is because this rim was already a replacement part.
Replaced it with a new rim and spokes.
The five spokes that survived are being reused.
This is the third rim that's been built up on this hub.
The second one was (→here)
Follow-up note:
Someone asked if the link was wrong.
No, it's correct.
Aksium 125 rim damaged → learned that cosmetic spokes (yellow spokes) were sold separately
rebuilt with four yellow spokes (that's the state shown in the linked post) →
got caught up in a crash at Suzuka on New Year's and lost all but five spokes (the state at the start of this post)
that's how it came about.