A customer left me with a Bora front wheel.

It's from the narrow-rim era with internal nipples,
and it's also from around when CULT bearings (Campagnolo bearing system) first started being used.
There's noticeable lateral runout, but the cause is spoke deformation.


I removed the dust cap to tell left from right (the side in the photo is the right side),
and since I'd need to remove the hub axle anyway to extract the deformed spoke,
taking off the dust cap was essential.



↑The bent spoke


On the cone of these early CULT bearings, you occasionally see areas outside the ball race
that have what looks like perlage finish (like on a watch dial),


but the other side wasn't like that.


Fixed it.



↑The replacement spoke
The story goes that both wheels with quick releases installed were stacked on top of each other,
and when lifting the rear wheel, the quick release got caught on the front wheel's spokes
and bent it.
But the current owner only heard this story from the previous owner,
so I don't actually know what really happened.
It would take an enormous impact load to bend a spoke in this direction locally
(even if you hit it unhesitatingly with a hammer, it would be hard to bend it this much).
It's not that I'm saying the previous owner was lying,
but it's certain this wasn't caused by anything minor.