A customer brought in a Racing Zero rear wheel for me to work on.

They'd lent it to an acquaintance for about half a year, and apparently it developed some runout.
The spokes were bent so badly you could actually see it in the photo above
(two spokes on the freewheel side, almost directly at the top).


At first I thought maybe it was just a perspective thing—
the space was distorted and the spokes just looked bent when they weren't really—



But no, the spokes themselves were definitely bent.

They're deformed in the direction they got wrapped by the rotation,
but based on the position, this wasn't from a chain drop or rear derailleur snafu.
If it was just riding with the lock still on, you wouldn't get two bent spokes,
so it's most likely something like hitting an object during the ride.



All fixed.



↑Replacement spokes