For example, there are situations where people say "liquid milk."
You might think milk is already liquid, right?
But to distinguish it from powdered milk that came later,
people sometimes call it that way on purpose.
Like how non-conveyor belt sushi restaurants get called "stationary sushi," or
how film cameras from before the digital camera era are called "analog cameras"—
there are various examples, and this sort of thing is called a "retronym."
Lately, because of that thing that's trending globally,
with so many sports events being held without spectators,
I've started seeing the phrase "spectator event" used.
Most modern road bikes use stems for threadless headset systems,
which were initially called "ahead stems" after the trademark of the company that came up with them,
and the stems that existed before that point
were called "normal stems,"
but nowadays the general term is "quill stem."
A customer brought in a Bora WTO45 for service.
They wanted an inspection. Starting with the rear wheel.
The Bora WTO does come in disc brake version too, but
this wheel is the rim brake spec.
In the near future, as disc brakes become even more standard on road bike wheels,
people will probably stop bothering to specify "disc brake spec"
(mountain bikes are already that way),
and will only specifically note when it's rim brake spec—
that's probably the direction things will shift.
For a high-end Campagnolo model,
the centering was noticeably off.
Fixed it.
Sometimes wheels with a bit of arbitrary runout are actually easier to true,
but this one had almost no runout and only centering issues, so
I couldn't do the centering correction as part of the truing job.
When I shook the rim, it rattled, so
I recovered some foreign debris.
The blue stuff is nylon burrs from nipple thread-locking compound,
and the short bristle-like pieces have the texture of hardened adhesive—
they snap right off when you touch them.
When they're inside the rim, like in the image above,
they're usually longer than the valve hole diameter
(or maybe the short ones fall out during wheel building),
which makes them hard to retrieve.
Now for the front wheel.
The provisional centering was spot-on, and it had more runout than the rear wheel, so
if you really looked for it, there might be about a paper's thickness of offset somewhere,
but after truing, the center was spot-on too.
This one had no foreign debris inside the rim at all.
You might think milk is already liquid, right?
But to distinguish it from powdered milk that came later,
people sometimes call it that way on purpose.
Like how non-conveyor belt sushi restaurants get called "stationary sushi," or
how film cameras from before the digital camera era are called "analog cameras"—
there are various examples, and this sort of thing is called a "retronym."
Lately, because of that thing that's trending globally,
with so many sports events being held without spectators,
I've started seeing the phrase "spectator event" used.
Most modern road bikes use stems for threadless headset systems,
which were initially called "ahead stems" after the trademark of the company that came up with them,
and the stems that existed before that point
were called "normal stems,"
but nowadays the general term is "quill stem."
A customer brought in a Bora WTO45 for service.
They wanted an inspection. Starting with the rear wheel.
The Bora WTO does come in disc brake version too, but
this wheel is the rim brake spec.
In the near future, as disc brakes become even more standard on road bike wheels,
people will probably stop bothering to specify "disc brake spec"
(mountain bikes are already that way),
and will only specifically note when it's rim brake spec—
that's probably the direction things will shift.
For a high-end Campagnolo model,
the centering was noticeably off.
Fixed it.
Sometimes wheels with a bit of arbitrary runout are actually easier to true,
but this one had almost no runout and only centering issues, so
I couldn't do the centering correction as part of the truing job.
When I shook the rim, it rattled, so
I recovered some foreign debris.
The blue stuff is nylon burrs from nipple thread-locking compound,
and the short bristle-like pieces have the texture of hardened adhesive—
they snap right off when you touch them.
When they're inside the rim, like in the image above,
they're usually longer than the valve hole diameter
(or maybe the short ones fall out during wheel building),
which makes them hard to retrieve.
Now for the front wheel.
The provisional centering was spot-on, and it had more runout than the rear wheel, so
if you really looked for it, there might be about a paper's thickness of offset somewhere,
but after truing, the center was spot-on too.
This one had no foreign debris inside the rim at all.