A customer dropped off the rear wheel of Nomu Lab Wheel #5 with me.
This is a rim transplant job, so today it doesn't count as wheel building (omitting the rest of the joke). Though actually, I did this work yesterday.
It's a 28H rear wheel, but
compared to the Ksyrium Elite it had been running (judging by the Quick logo, a recent model),
the customer said it felt about two sprockets lighter, and it was so light that they wondered if something was actually wrong with it!
I told them they were a "true Nomu Lab believer—how gross of you."
Anyway, this wheel got hit broadside by a car on its first day of use
and turned into a potato chip. For Nomu Lab wheels specifically,
this is the world record for fastest rim replacement.
The build date is (→here).
When you place the new rim alongside it . . .
you can see the phase of distortion. Just to be clear, the rim at the bottom of the image is the one that's bent.
Rim transplant in progress . . .
I had to pause work to snap this photo, and then
the brake zone looked so clean
that for a moment I couldn't tell which was the original rim.
All built up.
On to a separate matter: the customer also brought me the front wheel of Nomu Lab Wheel #5.
It looks like something got caught or pinched while it was rotating,
and one spoke is broken off. However,
that rim hole
is bulged out.
The spoke at the adjacent rim hole was also bent.
By "adjacent," I mean the next spoke hole in sequence along the rim,
not the next one on the same flange side.
If we use the hub body logo as left and right reference points,
the broken spoke is on the left side, and this bent spoke is on the right side.
A piece of the broken spoke's outer end was left inside the rim.
↑outer side
↑inner side
The impact was violent enough to nearly chew through the rim hole, so I'm suspicious of deformation in the hub's flange hole as well.
Since there's evidence of outpoke marks on the inside,
I decided to reuse the hub.
Once I released tension, I found four spokes with deformation.
They're four consecutive spokes on the same side. The photo is shot from the right side of the wheel,
and they're bent in a way that shows they were caught in the rotation.
Only the broken spoke is on the left side—it's at the rim hole between the third and fourth spokes on the right side.
On the left side, only the broken spoke was damaged.
I'm not reusing the nipples that were on the deformed spokes either.
Rim transplant in progress . . .
All built up.
↑the spokes we replaced
This is a rim transplant job, so today it doesn't count as wheel building (omitting the rest of the joke). Though actually, I did this work yesterday.
It's a 28H rear wheel, but
compared to the Ksyrium Elite it had been running (judging by the Quick logo, a recent model),
the customer said it felt about two sprockets lighter, and it was so light that they wondered if something was actually wrong with it!
I told them they were a "true Nomu Lab believer—how gross of you."
Anyway, this wheel got hit broadside by a car on its first day of use
and turned into a potato chip. For Nomu Lab wheels specifically,
this is the world record for fastest rim replacement.
The build date is (→here).
When you place the new rim alongside it . . .
you can see the phase of distortion. Just to be clear, the rim at the bottom of the image is the one that's bent.
Rim transplant in progress . . .
I had to pause work to snap this photo, and then
the brake zone looked so clean
that for a moment I couldn't tell which was the original rim.
All built up.
On to a separate matter: the customer also brought me the front wheel of Nomu Lab Wheel #5.
It looks like something got caught or pinched while it was rotating,
and one spoke is broken off. However,
that rim hole
is bulged out.
The spoke at the adjacent rim hole was also bent.
By "adjacent," I mean the next spoke hole in sequence along the rim,
not the next one on the same flange side.
If we use the hub body logo as left and right reference points,
the broken spoke is on the left side, and this bent spoke is on the right side.
A piece of the broken spoke's outer end was left inside the rim.
↑outer side
↑inner side
The impact was violent enough to nearly chew through the rim hole, so I'm suspicious of deformation in the hub's flange hole as well.
Since there's evidence of outpoke marks on the inside,
I decided to reuse the hub.
Once I released tension, I found four spokes with deformation.
They're four consecutive spokes on the same side. The photo is shot from the right side of the wheel,
and they're bent in a way that shows they were caught in the rotation.
Only the broken spoke is on the left side—it's at the rim hole between the third and fourth spokes on the right side.
On the left side, only the broken spoke was damaged.
I'm not reusing the nipples that were on the deformed spokes either.
Rim transplant in progress . . .
All built up.
↑the spokes we replaced