A customer dropped off the front wheel from a Bora One (Boro Uno - Italian road wheel brand) for me.
This is unrelated to the Bora One 50 from my previous post.
The year and specs are different, by the way.
One spoke was broken,
and the adjacent spoke was so bent it needed replacement too.
When I say "adjacent" here, I don't mean next to it on the same flange side—
I mean consecutive rim holes.
In the image above, the broken spoke is on the far-side flange,
while the other spoke needing replacement is on the near-side flange.
To replace spokes, I need to remove the hub axle.
In other words, I have to remove the hub axle without causing the new axle to snap.
The image above is after the work, and as you can see, I was able to remove the hub axle
without damaging the grip area on the right side.
All fixed.
I'm replacing the spokes in the rim holes to the left and right of the marking tape.
Sometimes I end up doing rework on repairs done by incompetent mechanics,
and I often see cases where they've only increased tension on the replaced spokes
and have radial runout sticking out on the outer edge.
I feel like this happens a lot with Racing Zero wheels especially.
They're only doing lateral runout adjustment and then calling it done.
Even though low tension makes it less likely to strip the nipple,
for some reason the hex nuts are stripped to hell,
and it makes me want to kill someone.
With this repair, I carefully tightened the spokes until the radial runout
directly below the replaced spoke was gone,
and that alone gave me no radial or lateral runout and almost no center offset.
By the time I'd chased down the radial runout,
the lateral runout I hadn't looked at yet was already basically gone.
The other 16 spokes should still be at their factory tension settings,
so matching those eliminates unnecessary extra steps.
This approach works smoothly only with manufacturers that have decent factory precision, though.
↑The replaced spoke
As for what caused this damage—the customer had wrapped a kickstand around the front wheel.
There were several other spokes with damage marks,
but since they showed no deformation and the customer didn't request it, I didn't replace them.
This is unrelated to the Bora One 50 from my previous post.
The year and specs are different, by the way.
One spoke was broken,
and the adjacent spoke was so bent it needed replacement too.
When I say "adjacent" here, I don't mean next to it on the same flange side—
I mean consecutive rim holes.
In the image above, the broken spoke is on the far-side flange,
while the other spoke needing replacement is on the near-side flange.
To replace spokes, I need to remove the hub axle.
In other words, I have to remove the hub axle without causing the new axle to snap.
The image above is after the work, and as you can see, I was able to remove the hub axle
without damaging the grip area on the right side.
All fixed.
I'm replacing the spokes in the rim holes to the left and right of the marking tape.
Sometimes I end up doing rework on repairs done by incompetent mechanics,
and I often see cases where they've only increased tension on the replaced spokes
and have radial runout sticking out on the outer edge.
I feel like this happens a lot with Racing Zero wheels especially.
They're only doing lateral runout adjustment and then calling it done.
Even though low tension makes it less likely to strip the nipple,
for some reason the hex nuts are stripped to hell,
and it makes me want to kill someone.
With this repair, I carefully tightened the spokes until the radial runout
directly below the replaced spoke was gone,
and that alone gave me no radial or lateral runout and almost no center offset.
By the time I'd chased down the radial runout,
the lateral runout I hadn't looked at yet was already basically gone.
The other 16 spokes should still be at their factory tension settings,
so matching those eliminates unnecessary extra steps.
This approach works smoothly only with manufacturers that have decent factory precision, though.
↑The replaced spoke
As for what caused this damage—the customer had wrapped a kickstand around the front wheel.
There were several other spokes with damage marks,
but since they showed no deformation and the customer didn't request it, I didn't replace them.