We've received spare spokes from Campagnolo and Fulcrum.
Fulcrum only
The package design has changed,
but they're still pointlessly shipping air inside.
It's not like a tin can, so there's no "Fresh Czech air included!" marketing angle here.
This is a single spoke, but even with the
rear wheel 21-spoke complete kits that come in the same box,
the practice of shipping air inside remains unchanged.
If you stuff consideration mini figures instead of air, it looks like this.
Finally, the Bora WTO 45 spokes have arrived!
I've been waiting for these.
The aluminum spokes are Czech-made,
but the pre-assembled wheels are assembled in Romania.
I wonder if they can't do it in Romania.
Romania and Czech aren't neighboring countries.
Even when Czech was Czechoslovakia, Hungary was next to it.
The steel spokes are Italian-made.
This is probably not in-house Campagnolo production,
but possibly made at the factory of ACI, a spoke manufacturer that
once produced spokes for Campagnolo complete wheels (back in the Shamal 12 era).
ACI was acquired by another Italian spoke manufacturer, Alpina,
so it's now called ACI Alpina.
However, looking at the Bora spokes,
there are definitely parts that look like Belgian Sapim manufacture,
so the logic might be: "Buy spokes from Sapim →
without the boxing process, you don't have a finished product,
so if it's boxed and becomes a product in Italy, it's Italy-made"—
meaning even if no painting or processing is done to the spokes in Italy,
if the final shipment point is Italy, it counts as Italian-made.
Even so, you could claim they perform "inspection" work.
Alternatively, the anti-rotation processing shape on the spoke head
of the front/rear left spokes of Zonda and Bora
is a unique flattening method not seen in other manufacturers,
so perhaps only that secondary processing is done in Italy.
※I made a correction as I had written that Sapim was Swiss.
I confused it with DT. Thank you for the comment pointing that out.
The steel spokes for Zonda, Bora, Speed and others come 4 per box,
and we keep the same spokes grouped together in one box.
↑So all these boxes contain different spokes, one type per box.
The aluminum spokes are grouped in a different type of box, not cardboard (→here).
Fulcrum only
The package design has changed,
but they're still pointlessly shipping air inside.
It's not like a tin can, so there's no "Fresh Czech air included!" marketing angle here.
This is a single spoke, but even with the
rear wheel 21-spoke complete kits that come in the same box,
the practice of shipping air inside remains unchanged.
If you stuff consideration mini figures instead of air, it looks like this.
Finally, the Bora WTO 45 spokes have arrived!
I've been waiting for these.
The aluminum spokes are Czech-made,
but the pre-assembled wheels are assembled in Romania.
I wonder if they can't do it in Romania.
Romania and Czech aren't neighboring countries.
Even when Czech was Czechoslovakia, Hungary was next to it.
The steel spokes are Italian-made.
This is probably not in-house Campagnolo production,
but possibly made at the factory of ACI, a spoke manufacturer that
once produced spokes for Campagnolo complete wheels (back in the Shamal 12 era).
ACI was acquired by another Italian spoke manufacturer, Alpina,
so it's now called ACI Alpina.
However, looking at the Bora spokes,
there are definitely parts that look like Belgian Sapim manufacture,
so the logic might be: "Buy spokes from Sapim →
without the boxing process, you don't have a finished product,
so if it's boxed and becomes a product in Italy, it's Italy-made"—
meaning even if no painting or processing is done to the spokes in Italy,
if the final shipment point is Italy, it counts as Italian-made.
Even so, you could claim they perform "inspection" work.
Alternatively, the anti-rotation processing shape on the spoke head
of the front/rear left spokes of Zonda and Bora
is a unique flattening method not seen in other manufacturers,
so perhaps only that secondary processing is done in Italy.
※I made a correction as I had written that Sapim was Swiss.
I confused it with DT. Thank you for the comment pointing that out.
The steel spokes for Zonda, Bora, Speed and others come 4 per box,
and we keep the same spokes grouped together in one box.
↑So all these boxes contain different spokes, one type per box.
The aluminum spokes are grouped in a different type of box, not cardboard (→here).