A customer dropped off a Racing Zero Carbon (high-end carbon wheelset) with me.
The front wheel was dead center with virtually no runout,
but the rear wheel had something extremely unusual—the rim was pulling toward the non-freewheel side.
And not just a tiny bit either; it was way off.
On top of that, the spoke tension was loose, so I shifted the rim back toward the freewheel side first,
then re-tensioned the non-freewheel side spokes to get it centered.
There wasn't a single nipple that didn't need tightening.
I got it properly sorted in the end and told the customer,
but this is a one-in-a-hundred kind of lemon—seriously defective stuff.
I actually asked about its history because I wondered if some incompetent shop had done a half-ass inspection job,
but apparently it came straight from an overseas online shop and has only about 1,500 km on it.
So yeah, you do get wheels like this sometimes.
The front wheel was dead center with virtually no runout,
but the rear wheel had something extremely unusual—the rim was pulling toward the non-freewheel side.
And not just a tiny bit either; it was way off.
On top of that, the spoke tension was loose, so I shifted the rim back toward the freewheel side first,
then re-tensioned the non-freewheel side spokes to get it centered.
There wasn't a single nipple that didn't need tightening.
I got it properly sorted in the end and told the customer,
but this is a one-in-a-hundred kind of lemon—seriously defective stuff.
I actually asked about its history because I wondered if some incompetent shop had done a half-ass inspection job,
but apparently it came straight from an overseas online shop and has only about 1,500 km on it.
So yeah, you do get wheels like this sometimes.