A customer brought in a Roval CLX64 wheel for repair.
It's a rim brake model with a non-tubeless compatible rim.
The customer bringing it in wasn't the original owner, and
things were pretty messed up, but I managed to get it sorted out.
I'm not taking a full wheel shot because
there's identifying information about the previous owner on part of the rim.
The rim had shifted toward the non-drive side.
There was abnormal runout, so the amount of centering error varied by phase.
It's definitely shifted toward the non-drive side overall,
but the image doesn't necessarily show the worst phase.
If someone had just played at wheel truing by tightening only the non-drive side spokes,
I'd expect only those spoke nipples to be stripped, but
To varying degrees, with no distinction between left and right,
nearly every nipple was stripped.
Actually, this wheel requires grabbing the hex on the outer edge to turn it—that's a given. And
since it's a non-tubeless model with a stretch-band-type rim tape,
wheel truing doesn't require replacing tubeless tape every time.
Someone who won't even bother removing the tire, tube, and rim tape
can't do anything by fiddling with it anyway, but
that's exactly the kind of person who fiddles with it.
Got it sorted.
The front wheel was the same—major centering error and runout issues.
The customer wanted the stripped nipples replaced,
but that would basically amount to rebuilding the wheel, which takes time, so
this time I just adjusted from the outer edge.
That said, there was definitely one nipple that needed replacing, so
I did replace that one.
It's a rim brake model with a non-tubeless compatible rim.
The customer bringing it in wasn't the original owner, and
things were pretty messed up, but I managed to get it sorted out.
I'm not taking a full wheel shot because
there's identifying information about the previous owner on part of the rim.
The rim had shifted toward the non-drive side.
There was abnormal runout, so the amount of centering error varied by phase.
It's definitely shifted toward the non-drive side overall,
but the image doesn't necessarily show the worst phase.
If someone had just played at wheel truing by tightening only the non-drive side spokes,
I'd expect only those spoke nipples to be stripped, but
To varying degrees, with no distinction between left and right,
nearly every nipple was stripped.
Actually, this wheel requires grabbing the hex on the outer edge to turn it—that's a given. And
since it's a non-tubeless model with a stretch-band-type rim tape,
wheel truing doesn't require replacing tubeless tape every time.
Someone who won't even bother removing the tire, tube, and rim tape
can't do anything by fiddling with it anyway, but
that's exactly the kind of person who fiddles with it.
Got it sorted.
The front wheel was the same—major centering error and runout issues.
The customer wanted the stripped nipples replaced,
but that would basically amount to rebuilding the wheel, which takes time, so
this time I just adjusted from the outer edge.
That said, there was definitely one nipple that needed replacing, so
I did replace that one.