I received a rear wheel from a customer for Nomu Lab Wheel No. 5.
Since this is a rim replacement job, it doesn't count as wheel building (hereinafter omitted) for today, but actually I did this yesterday.
It's a 28-hole rear wheel,
compared to the Ksyrium Elite (judging by the quick-release logo, it's a recent model) that was on it before,
it feels about two cogs lighter,
and the customer thought it was so light that something might be wrong!
To which I said, "What a gross Nomu Lab fanatic."
Anyway, this wheel got hit broadside by a car on its first day of use
and became potato chip-shaped.
Speaking specifically of Nomu Lab wheels,
this is the world record for fastest rim replacement.
The day it was built was (→here).
When you put them side by side with the new rim...
You can see the difference in warping. Just to be clear, the rim on the bottom in the image is the one that's bent.
Transferring the rim...
I paused work to take this photo
The brake zone is so clean
that for a moment I couldn't tell which was the original rim.
Built.
Next, as a separate matter,
I received a front wheel of Nomu Lab Wheel No. 5 from a customer.
It looks like something was caught or pinched during rotation,
and one spoke is missing,
but that rim hole
is bulging.
The spoke in the adjacent rim hole was also bent.
By "adjacent," I mean adjacent in the count of consecutive rim holes,
not adjacent on the same flange side.
If we use the hub body logo as the reference for left and right,
the missing spoke would be on the left side, and this bent spoke is on the right side.
A piece of the broken spoke's outer circumference remained inside the rim.
↑Outer side
↑Inner side
The impact was strong enough to nearly gouge the rim hole,
so I'm also suspecting deformation of the hub flange hole on the missing spoke side.
Since there's a mark of the opposite spoke on the inside,
I decided to reuse the hub.
When I released the tension, there were 4 deformed spokes.
Four consecutive spokes on the same side; the image is shot from the right side of the wheel,
and they're bent in a direction that shows they were caught during rotation.
Only the missing spoke is on the left side, between the 3rd and 4th rim holes on the right side.
On the left side, only the missing spoke was damaged.
For the deformed spokes, I'm not reusing the nipples that were on them either.
Transferring the rim...
Built.
↑Replaced spokes
Since this is a rim replacement job, it doesn't count as wheel building (hereinafter omitted) for today, but actually I did this yesterday.
It's a 28-hole rear wheel,
compared to the Ksyrium Elite (judging by the quick-release logo, it's a recent model) that was on it before,
it feels about two cogs lighter,
and the customer thought it was so light that something might be wrong!
To which I said, "What a gross Nomu Lab fanatic."
Anyway, this wheel got hit broadside by a car on its first day of use
and became potato chip-shaped.
Speaking specifically of Nomu Lab wheels,
this is the world record for fastest rim replacement.
The day it was built was (→here).
When you put them side by side with the new rim...
You can see the difference in warping. Just to be clear, the rim on the bottom in the image is the one that's bent.
Transferring the rim...
I paused work to take this photo
The brake zone is so clean
that for a moment I couldn't tell which was the original rim.
Built.
Next, as a separate matter,
I received a front wheel of Nomu Lab Wheel No. 5 from a customer.
It looks like something was caught or pinched during rotation,
and one spoke is missing,
but that rim hole
is bulging.
The spoke in the adjacent rim hole was also bent.
By "adjacent," I mean adjacent in the count of consecutive rim holes,
not adjacent on the same flange side.
If we use the hub body logo as the reference for left and right,
the missing spoke would be on the left side, and this bent spoke is on the right side.
A piece of the broken spoke's outer circumference remained inside the rim.
↑Outer side
↑Inner side
The impact was strong enough to nearly gouge the rim hole,
so I'm also suspecting deformation of the hub flange hole on the missing spoke side.
Since there's a mark of the opposite spoke on the inside,
I decided to reuse the hub.
When I released the tension, there were 4 deformed spokes.
Four consecutive spokes on the same side; the image is shot from the right side of the wheel,
and they're bent in a direction that shows they were caught during rotation.
Only the missing spoke is on the left side, between the 3rd and 4th rim holes on the right side.
On the left side, only the missing spoke was damaged.
For the deformed spokes, I'm not reusing the nipples that were on them either.
Transferring the rim...
Built.
↑Replaced spokes