Another wheel day (and so on).

A customer brought in a Ksyrium rear wheel.
Though it's called a Ksyrium by model name,
the actual wheel itself is completely R-SYS.


Apparently they deformed the rim bead hook using a lever-type tire lever.
The typical product would be (→this one),
though they weren't sure if it was that exact product or a knockoff.
I've had cases in the past where the rim was deformed
for the same reason, requiring a rim replacement.

In my opinion, if someone can't mount a tire using a normal tire lever,
using a lever-type tire lever won't necessarily
make it mount any easier.


The customer provided a replacement rim,
but transferring the rim components... shouldn't be done,
or rather, it probably can't be done properly.




This is just a test where I lightly hand-twisted a spoke through the rim hole on the freewheel side,
but Zicral spokes have incredibly strong directional alignment
(you can see the front-to-back orientation in the image, but of course there's also left-to-right),
so you can't achieve that intermediate state where spokes from one hub go through two different rims.
And even if you could manage it,
it wouldn't save any work time, so there's no point in doing it.
The only point would be to say I'm doing "another wheel day (and so on)."
Well, I'm building other wheels today anyway,
so it doesn't really matter.


A ton of machining debris came out of the new rim.
You don't see this much come out of off-the-shelf new wheels,
so Mavic must be removing a certain amount during their own wheel building process.


It's built.