Racing Zero

A customer brought in a Racing Zero for service.
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They had a crash and requested wheel truing and, well, some aesthetic theft prevention too.
But when I looked for crash-related runout, I couldn't find any.
It's not perfectly true, but there's barely any runout—
honestly, some wheels from other manufacturers come from the factory more out of true than this,
that's about the level of runout we're dealing with here.
The rear wheel had only a slight centering issue.

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I finished replacing the front wheel spokes.

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Now for the rear wheel.
You can make it out in the photo above, but
there's a wheel magnet attached with self-fusing tape to the spoke
right next to the valve hole on the non-drive side—the one they want to replace with a red spoke.

Changing that spoke near the valve hole to a red spoke and
moving the magnet to a different spoke wouldn't be much hassle,
but in terms of wheel balance on the Racing Zero rim,
it's better to keep the magnet's weight on the valve side too, so

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I decided to leave attaching the magnet to the red spoke up to the customer.

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