A customer left a CLX64 rear wheel with me.
An "acquaintance who claims they can work on wheels" messed it up,
so they asked me to fix it. Since the person who caused the damage is an amateur,
I'll refrain from being too harsh in my critique.
There's not much lateral runout, but there is some centering offset.
These issues are mostly unrelated to the damage.
One nipple is stripped.
Separately, there are two spokes with twisted flats,
↑First twisted spoke
↑Second twisted spoke
The image is a bit blurry, but the twisted spokes are two adjacent ones at the final crossing.
These are the actual damage.
Unrelated to that, the DT (tubeless tape) that's applied has
sloppy finishing around the valve hole.
This was already like this from the manufacturer.
The nipples on this wheel can be turned by grabbing the hex on the outer side.
Nipples designed to be turned from the outer side (※) often have shorter
grip width on the square inner side, but this nipple has grip width comparable to
universal nipples. The fact that it still got stripped suggests the tool size didn't match properly.
※I've seen Vittoria complete wheels with nipples that have a cone-shaped inner side
like an inverted paper cup with no grip at all.
If they can only be turned from the outside, I think internal nipples
would be a better design choice.
↑Spoke head of the spoke I removed to replace the nipple
↑Spoke head of the spoke I modified as a replacement
Fixed.
↑Position after spoke replacement
↑Position after nipple replacement
Just adjusting these three nipples fixed it almost completely, so
apart from the centering offset that would have existed from the factory state,
there really was no reason to touch this wheel.
Maybe they were trying to fix that centering offset though.
I've also centered it just to be sure.
↑Replaced spoke
An "acquaintance who claims they can work on wheels" messed it up,
so they asked me to fix it. Since the person who caused the damage is an amateur,
I'll refrain from being too harsh in my critique.
There's not much lateral runout, but there is some centering offset.
These issues are mostly unrelated to the damage.
One nipple is stripped.
Separately, there are two spokes with twisted flats,
↑First twisted spoke
↑Second twisted spoke
The image is a bit blurry, but the twisted spokes are two adjacent ones at the final crossing.
These are the actual damage.
Unrelated to that, the DT (tubeless tape) that's applied has
sloppy finishing around the valve hole.
This was already like this from the manufacturer.
The nipples on this wheel can be turned by grabbing the hex on the outer side.
Nipples designed to be turned from the outer side (※) often have shorter
grip width on the square inner side, but this nipple has grip width comparable to
universal nipples. The fact that it still got stripped suggests the tool size didn't match properly.
※I've seen Vittoria complete wheels with nipples that have a cone-shaped inner side
like an inverted paper cup with no grip at all.
If they can only be turned from the outside, I think internal nipples
would be a better design choice.
↑Spoke head of the spoke I removed to replace the nipple
↑Spoke head of the spoke I modified as a replacement
Fixed.
↑Position after spoke replacement
↑Position after nipple replacement
Just adjusting these three nipples fixed it almost completely, so
apart from the centering offset that would have existed from the factory state,
there really was no reason to touch this wheel.
Maybe they were trying to fix that centering offset though.
I've also centered it just to be sure.
↑Replaced spoke