A customer brought in the rear wheel of a Nomu Lab Wheel #5 for service.
At this point, I'd already removed the freewheel body.
About this wheel—I'm just going to write down what the customer told me—
compared to the WO rim Shimano C24 (non-tubeless) they used before,
they said this one feels like it "pushes and goes" better and "rides" faster?
Even though the rim weight is about the same... weird... I wonder why.
・・・Anyway, moving on from that,
the chain dropped inside the low gear and got jammed,
and when they pedaled hard, the rear derailleur mounting bracket bent
and the rear derailleur got wrapped around the rear wheel.
And that's not all—they had the wheel trued at a nearby shop.
Oh man.←Well, can't be helped
Apparently tightening the freewheel side was difficult,
and they did some pretend-truing focusing only on the non-freewheel side,
so the rim was clearly shifted toward the non-freewheel side.
Actually, this is something that happens a lot
when people do pretend-truing work on wheels I've built.
And in fact, the customer pointed it out too—
there was one spot with a big lateral wobble.
Even if you clean up that nicely, this center offset won't go away.
On top of the lateral wobble, there was also radial runout so pronounced
the customer noticed it,
and when I checked it with the truing stand gauge, it showed pretty significant radial runout.
You could say the rim was rotating eccentrically.
Please, just stop messing around with pretend-truing work.
The timeline goes back now. This is the initial state.
For Italian lacing on the freewheel side, the spokes in the porcupine direction
are the 6 Nupoeke spokes (Japanese ultra-light spokes), which all have
varying degrees of deformation and damage.
Absolutely 2 spokes needed replacement, but I decided to replace all 6.
↑Here's what they looked like.
Fixed.
If there hadn't been unnecessary messing around, I think adjusting just the 6 nipples
on the replacement spokes would have straightened things out almost completely,
but in reality, most of the time was spent undoing the damage from all that pretend-truing.
It's like I've written before—it's like undoing the unnecessary steps
someone else made on a Rubik's cube.
Of course, I'm not opposed to doing some truing as a makeshift fix
for the wobble caused by the derailleur wrap,
but if you're going to do that, I wish they'd at least
focused on nailing down the lateral runout, even if the center was off
and there was radial runout.
The fact that they didn't even manage that
is something the customer saw in the before and after shots I showed them.
↑The replaced spokes
By the way, since I treated this as truing work on a wheel I'd built,
I didn't charge labor—I only took payment for the spoke cost.
At this point, I'd already removed the freewheel body.
About this wheel—I'm just going to write down what the customer told me—
compared to the WO rim Shimano C24 (non-tubeless) they used before,
they said this one feels like it "pushes and goes" better and "rides" faster?
Even though the rim weight is about the same... weird... I wonder why.
・・・Anyway, moving on from that,
the chain dropped inside the low gear and got jammed,
and when they pedaled hard, the rear derailleur mounting bracket bent
and the rear derailleur got wrapped around the rear wheel.
And that's not all—they had the wheel trued at a nearby shop.
Oh man.←Well, can't be helped
Apparently tightening the freewheel side was difficult,
and they did some pretend-truing focusing only on the non-freewheel side,
so the rim was clearly shifted toward the non-freewheel side.
Actually, this is something that happens a lot
when people do pretend-truing work on wheels I've built.
And in fact, the customer pointed it out too—
there was one spot with a big lateral wobble.
Even if you clean up that nicely, this center offset won't go away.
On top of the lateral wobble, there was also radial runout so pronounced
the customer noticed it,
and when I checked it with the truing stand gauge, it showed pretty significant radial runout.
You could say the rim was rotating eccentrically.
Please, just stop messing around with pretend-truing work.
The timeline goes back now. This is the initial state.
For Italian lacing on the freewheel side, the spokes in the porcupine direction
are the 6 Nupoeke spokes (Japanese ultra-light spokes), which all have
varying degrees of deformation and damage.
Absolutely 2 spokes needed replacement, but I decided to replace all 6.
↑Here's what they looked like.
Fixed.
If there hadn't been unnecessary messing around, I think adjusting just the 6 nipples
on the replacement spokes would have straightened things out almost completely,
but in reality, most of the time was spent undoing the damage from all that pretend-truing.
It's like I've written before—it's like undoing the unnecessary steps
someone else made on a Rubik's cube.
Of course, I'm not opposed to doing some truing as a makeshift fix
for the wobble caused by the derailleur wrap,
but if you're going to do that, I wish they'd at least
focused on nailing down the lateral runout, even if the center was off
and there was radial runout.
The fact that they didn't even manage that
is something the customer saw in the before and after shots I showed them.
↑The replaced spokes
By the way, since I treated this as truing work on a wheel I'd built,
I didn't charge labor—I only took payment for the spoke cost.