A customer dropped off the rear wheel of a CLX50 Disc for me.
There's a phase where there's a noticeable wobble,
and the spoke directly below it shows significant deformation,
so that's definitely the culprit.
Roval wheels are unusual among recent wheels in that they sometimes use
round spokes even on high-rim-depth carbon rims,
but this one has aero spokes.
This is extremely important for repair purposes, because
with round spokes, it's hard to source replacement spokes.
Also, the spoke head having that sliced enoki mushroom shape
is another characteristic of Roval.
That's a feature from the old Roval days when it was a French factory wheel brand,
before becoming a Specialized subsidiaryzombie brand.
The spoke on the right in the image above is the repair spoke I machined,
and you can see the grid pattern from where I held it in the vise.
Even looking at the spoke head from the end, it has the same shape,
so the machining process must be similar.
Fixed.
I temporarily removed the disc rotor for work convenience.
↑Replaced spoke
After the job, I told the customer,
"I wouldn't say 'we don't do Specialized so we can't look at it,' right?"
So let me explain the context.
Before working on this, I'd been inspecting a Nomulabo Wheel #5 on another job
(this Roval customer was waiting at that time too),
and they said a nearby shop told them
"something's wrong with the freebody on the rear wheel but we can't figure out what,"
and asked if I could check it.
I'll look at it, sure, but that shop nearby—
if they think something's wrong, they should just fix it themselves and prove it,
not just spout random nonsense without even trying, like some incompetent hack.
Turns out there was nothing wrong with the freebody.
Maybe they got scared of the Nomulabo name and didn't want to touch it,
but either way it was a misdiagnosis.
There are way too many crappy shops out there that either
have a bar set too low for "we can't do it,"
or when they do try something, they make it worse than before,
and never actually deliver a proper result.
Though I'll admit it does end up being my meal ticket.
I myself tend to overcommit and end up in hell for it,
but if I didn't, I'd never actually develop the skills to fix things I can't currently fix.
Anyway, I worked on something similar to this Roval rear wheel
back on September 7th this year,
but I only took photos and never wrote it up,
so I'll cover that in the next post.
There's a phase where there's a noticeable wobble,
and the spoke directly below it shows significant deformation,
so that's definitely the culprit.
Roval wheels are unusual among recent wheels in that they sometimes use
round spokes even on high-rim-depth carbon rims,
but this one has aero spokes.
This is extremely important for repair purposes, because
with round spokes, it's hard to source replacement spokes.
Also, the spoke head having that sliced enoki mushroom shape
is another characteristic of Roval.
That's a feature from the old Roval days when it was a French factory wheel brand,
before becoming a Specialized subsidiary
The spoke on the right in the image above is the repair spoke I machined,
and you can see the grid pattern from where I held it in the vise.
Even looking at the spoke head from the end, it has the same shape,
so the machining process must be similar.
Fixed.
I temporarily removed the disc rotor for work convenience.
↑Replaced spoke
After the job, I told the customer,
"I wouldn't say 'we don't do Specialized so we can't look at it,' right?"
So let me explain the context.
Before working on this, I'd been inspecting a Nomulabo Wheel #5 on another job
(this Roval customer was waiting at that time too),
and they said a nearby shop told them
"something's wrong with the freebody on the rear wheel but we can't figure out what,"
and asked if I could check it.
I'll look at it, sure, but that shop nearby—
if they think something's wrong, they should just fix it themselves and prove it,
not just spout random nonsense without even trying, like some incompetent hack.
Turns out there was nothing wrong with the freebody.
Maybe they got scared of the Nomulabo name and didn't want to touch it,
but either way it was a misdiagnosis.
There are way too many crappy shops out there that either
have a bar set too low for "we can't do it,"
or when they do try something, they make it worse than before,
and never actually deliver a proper result.
Though I'll admit it does end up being my meal ticket.
I myself tend to overcommit and end up in hell for it,
but if I didn't, I'd never actually develop the skills to fix things I can't currently fix.
Anyway, I worked on something similar to this Roval rear wheel
back on September 7th this year,
but I only took photos and never wrote it up,
so I'll cover that in the next post.