I received a comment the other day, and there were things I wanted to write about regarding it,
but I didn't have a chance to get permission from the person involved to use their name,
so I'm writing this now that I finally got it yesterday.
First, here's the comment I received. Copied as-is from the original.
The Rumor About the No. 6 Wheel
This is something I heard at a nearby shop.
I heard that Shusaku Yabe crashed after the rim of the Nomu Lab Wheel No. 6 he was using
broke during a downhill descent.
I had simply thought it was a flat tire causing loss of control and the crash.
Is that what happened? If it wasn't a rim break,
I don't understand why that shop is spreading rumors.
That's what it said.
It's true that Yabe got a flat tire on the front wheel on the downhill of Rokko Mountain while using the Nomu Lab Wheel No. 6 and crashed,
but the rim didn't break or anything like that.
In terms of timing, it was probably just before the Ibuki Mountain Hill Climb.
So the content of the comment is not factual, and
that crappy shop spreading rumors is a liar (though I don't know which one).
Anyway, the damage from that crash was
the rider's road rash, a tear in the right bar tape, scratches on the paint at the right end of the front fork,
the rear derailleur battery of the SRAM E-Tap flying off,
and the Nomu Lab Wheel No. 6 front wheel getting out of true, among other things.
The E-Tap battery became unusable because the lug receiver for mounting broke.
If the lug on the derailleur body itself had broken, we would have needed to replace the rear derailleur,
so in that respect it was maybe still not too bad.
I don't remember exactly, but I think we replaced one spoke on the Nomu Lab Wheel No. 6 front wheel that was slightly bent.
In any case, we did do a truing job on it.
Now here's what I really wanted to write about:
The front fork damage was going to be refinished somewhere else by our shop,
and the reassembly would be done once the bike was sent to us,
so we arranged to contact Yabe after the work was done and have him come pick it up.
We were using a super-lightweight pressure anchor,
and getting rid of the play with that was somewhat difficult, which was another reason.
↑The wheel in the image is that Nomu Lab Wheel No. 6 from back then.
So when Yabe came by,
I sent it for paint and the damage isn't fixed at all!
I tried to mess with him and give him a scare, but
He immediately saw right through the fact that I had just stuck on a "scratch sticker" that I made,
and the prank ended up being a total failure.
but I didn't have a chance to get permission from the person involved to use their name,
so I'm writing this now that I finally got it yesterday.
First, here's the comment I received. Copied as-is from the original.
The Rumor About the No. 6 Wheel
This is something I heard at a nearby shop.
I heard that Shusaku Yabe crashed after the rim of the Nomu Lab Wheel No. 6 he was using
broke during a downhill descent.
I had simply thought it was a flat tire causing loss of control and the crash.
Is that what happened? If it wasn't a rim break,
I don't understand why that shop is spreading rumors.
That's what it said.
It's true that Yabe got a flat tire on the front wheel on the downhill of Rokko Mountain while using the Nomu Lab Wheel No. 6 and crashed,
but the rim didn't break or anything like that.
In terms of timing, it was probably just before the Ibuki Mountain Hill Climb.
So the content of the comment is not factual, and
that crappy shop spreading rumors is a liar (though I don't know which one).
Anyway, the damage from that crash was
the rider's road rash, a tear in the right bar tape, scratches on the paint at the right end of the front fork,
the rear derailleur battery of the SRAM E-Tap flying off,
and the Nomu Lab Wheel No. 6 front wheel getting out of true, among other things.
The E-Tap battery became unusable because the lug receiver for mounting broke.
If the lug on the derailleur body itself had broken, we would have needed to replace the rear derailleur,
so in that respect it was maybe still not too bad.
I don't remember exactly, but I think we replaced one spoke on the Nomu Lab Wheel No. 6 front wheel that was slightly bent.
In any case, we did do a truing job on it.
Now here's what I really wanted to write about:
The front fork damage was going to be refinished somewhere else by our shop,
and the reassembly would be done once the bike was sent to us,
so we arranged to contact Yabe after the work was done and have him come pick it up.
We were using a super-lightweight pressure anchor,
and getting rid of the play with that was somewhat difficult, which was another reason.
↑The wheel in the image is that Nomu Lab Wheel No. 6 from back then.
So when Yabe came by,
I sent it for paint and the damage isn't fixed at all!
I tried to mess with him and give him a scare, but
He immediately saw right through the fact that I had just stuck on a "scratch sticker" that I made,
and the prank ended up being a total failure.