A customer brought in a Shamal Ultra rear wheel for repair.
They messed up releasing their clipless pedal
and drove their left shoe heel into the rear wheel.
You can see in the image above that the spokes on the non-freewheel side are bent.
Fixed.
Per the customer's request, I'm doing the aesthetic spoke color swap, so
I didn't put a reference tape on the red spoke,
but I did place tape on the adjacent spoke
because I was unsure whether there'd been a second impact contact
during wheel rotation, so I temporarily relieved the tension on it.
It turned out to have no deformation, so no replacement was needed.
Normally when doing an aesthetic spoke swap,
I'd use a different-colored spoke at the position near the valve hole,
but when the spoke that needs replacing isn't near the valve hole,
I'd have to go through the extra steps of
「removing the spoke near the valve hole and moving it to the repair position
→ installing a different-colored spoke near the valve hole」
With this rear wheel, the spoke needing replacement
happened to be at almost the opposite phase from the valve hole.
The black spoke near the valve hole
has a magnet attached by the customer using self-fusing tape.
The Shamal Ultra and Racing Zero have an internal reinforcement wall
at the opposite phase of the valve, and this wall's weight
doesn't balance with just the valve's weight opposite to it.
So with models like the Racing Zero (aluminum rim version),
it's best to attach the wheel magnet to the spoke nearest the valve.
This wheel's magnet position wasn't intentionally chosen by the customer—it was coincidence—but
if we were to position the red spoke near the valve hole,
it would require extra work on my end and for the customer when installing the magnet.
So the decision was made to position the red spoke not near the valve hole
but at the repair location instead.
Since this happened to be opposite the valve hole,
I'm also doing the aesthetic spoke swap on the front wheel that came in at the same time
with the red spoke positioned "opposite the valve hole, on the left side"
to maintain consistency as a matching pair of wheels.
↑Replaced spoke
They messed up releasing their clipless pedal
and drove their left shoe heel into the rear wheel.
You can see in the image above that the spokes on the non-freewheel side are bent.
Fixed.
Per the customer's request, I'm doing the aesthetic spoke color swap, so
I didn't put a reference tape on the red spoke,
but I did place tape on the adjacent spoke
because I was unsure whether there'd been a second impact contact
during wheel rotation, so I temporarily relieved the tension on it.
It turned out to have no deformation, so no replacement was needed.
Normally when doing an aesthetic spoke swap,
I'd use a different-colored spoke at the position near the valve hole,
but when the spoke that needs replacing isn't near the valve hole,
I'd have to go through the extra steps of
「removing the spoke near the valve hole and moving it to the repair position
→ installing a different-colored spoke near the valve hole」
With this rear wheel, the spoke needing replacement
happened to be at almost the opposite phase from the valve hole.
The black spoke near the valve hole
has a magnet attached by the customer using self-fusing tape.
The Shamal Ultra and Racing Zero have an internal reinforcement wall
at the opposite phase of the valve, and this wall's weight
doesn't balance with just the valve's weight opposite to it.
So with models like the Racing Zero (aluminum rim version),
it's best to attach the wheel magnet to the spoke nearest the valve.
This wheel's magnet position wasn't intentionally chosen by the customer—it was coincidence—but
if we were to position the red spoke near the valve hole,
it would require extra work on my end and for the customer when installing the magnet.
So the decision was made to position the red spoke not near the valve hole
but at the repair location instead.
Since this happened to be opposite the valve hole,
I'm also doing the aesthetic spoke swap on the front wheel that came in at the same time
with the red spoke positioned "opposite the valve hole, on the left side"
to maintain consistency as a matching pair of wheels.
↑Replaced spoke