A customer brought in a Shamal Ultra rear wheel for repair.
It's hard to see because it's white,
but I've marked the spokes that need replacing with tape.
Starting from the left in the image above:
One spoke on the freewheel side,
One on the non-freewheel side and a second one on the freewheel side, for a total of three spokes.
The freewheel body felt off, and I thought it was a deformed pawl spring,
but it turned out that threads from the tire sidewall—
"the threads that come loose from the Granprix 4000 SII (tire) after extended use"—
had gotten tangled around the pawls on the freewheel body.
While these threads aren't popular,
I figure "think about it—with something like Schwalbe,
the tire itself would be shot before threads even started coming out of a Granprix 4000."
Fixed.
Besides the three spokes I'd originally marked,
I had to replace a spoke on the non-freewheel side as well.
↑The bent spokes
Two are bent mainly front-to-back, and one is mainly bent side-to-side.
↑The spoke I replaced separately
As you can see, it's not bent,
but the nipple was severely seized and wouldn't budge at all.
There are some techniques for dealing with completely seized nipples at first glance,
but none of them worked, so
I didn't want the customer to think I'd messed up by accident,
so I told them beforehand "This one's going to break real nice,"
then—crack!—broke it,
The remaining piece was too long to retrieve through the valve hole,
so I cut it down to a recoverable length.
It's hard to see because it's white,
but I've marked the spokes that need replacing with tape.
Starting from the left in the image above:
One spoke on the freewheel side,
One on the non-freewheel side and a second one on the freewheel side, for a total of three spokes.
The freewheel body felt off, and I thought it was a deformed pawl spring,
but it turned out that threads from the tire sidewall—
"the threads that come loose from the Granprix 4000 SII (tire) after extended use"—
had gotten tangled around the pawls on the freewheel body.
While these threads aren't popular,
I figure "think about it—with something like Schwalbe,
the tire itself would be shot before threads even started coming out of a Granprix 4000."
Fixed.
Besides the three spokes I'd originally marked,
I had to replace a spoke on the non-freewheel side as well.
↑The bent spokes
Two are bent mainly front-to-back, and one is mainly bent side-to-side.
↑The spoke I replaced separately
As you can see, it's not bent,
but the nipple was severely seized and wouldn't budge at all.
There are some techniques for dealing with completely seized nipples at first glance,
but none of them worked, so
I didn't want the customer to think I'd messed up by accident,
so I told them beforehand "This one's going to break real nice,"
then—crack!—broke it,
The remaining piece was too long to retrieve through the valve hole,
so I cut it down to a recoverable length.