A customer dropped off the rear wheel from Nomu Lab Wheel #5 with me.
At this point, the freewheel body had already been removed.
Now, about this wheel—I'm just going to write down what the customer told me directly,
but compared to the Shimano C24 on a WO rim (not tubeless) they used before,
this one feels like it "rolls" better and "rides" faster?
Even though the rim weight is about the same... weird, isn't it? I wonder why.
・・・Anyway, besides that, they dropped the chain inboard of the smallest cog,
and jammed it while pedaling, which bent the rear derailleur mounting hanger,
and the rear derailleur got pulled into the rear wheel.
And that wasn't all—they also had a local shop do truing work on it.
Yikes. ←Well, can't be helped, I guess.
Either tightening on the freewheel side was difficult, or
they went overboard with non-freewheel-side tightening during their truing attempt,
because the rim was clearly offset toward the non-freewheel side.
Actually, this is something that happens to my wheels fairly often
when people mess around with truing.
In fact, the customer confirmed it too—
there was one spot with a massive lateral wobble.
Even if you clean that up nicely, this center offset won't go away.
And on top of the lateral runout, there was enough radial runout that
the customer pointed it out themselves, and when I put it on the truing stand,
it showed pretty significant radial runout.
You could say the rim was running eccentrically.
Please, just stop fiddling around with truing attempts.
Going back in the timeline now—this is the starting state from the beginning.
In the case of Italian lacing on the freewheel side, the spokes that run in the porcupine direction
are six inpoke spokes, all showing some degree of deformation or damage.
There were definitely two spokes that absolutely needed replacing, but
I decided to replace all six of them.
↑This is what they looked like.
All fixed.
If there hadn't been any unnecessary fiddling, I think the wheel would've been almost
back to normal with just adjusting the six nipples of the replaced spokes.
But the actual time-consumer was undoing all that other truing attempt damage.
Like I've written before, it's kind of like trying to undo the extra steps
someone else made to a Rubik's cube.
Of course, I'm not against doing some truing as a band-aid for the wobble
caused by the rear derailleur pull-in,
but if you're going to do that, I'd at least hope you'd chase down the lateral runout properly,
even if the center ends up offset or radial runout shows up.
The fact that they didn't even manage that
was confirmed when the customer looked at the before and after.
↑The replaced spokes
By the way, since I called it truing work on a wheel I built,
I didn't charge labor—they only paid for the spokes.
At this point, the freewheel body had already been removed.
Now, about this wheel—I'm just going to write down what the customer told me directly,
but compared to the Shimano C24 on a WO rim (not tubeless) they used before,
this one feels like it "rolls" better and "rides" faster?
Even though the rim weight is about the same... weird, isn't it? I wonder why.
・・・Anyway, besides that, they dropped the chain inboard of the smallest cog,
and jammed it while pedaling, which bent the rear derailleur mounting hanger,
and the rear derailleur got pulled into the rear wheel.
And that wasn't all—they also had a local shop do truing work on it.
Yikes. ←Well, can't be helped, I guess.
Either tightening on the freewheel side was difficult, or
they went overboard with non-freewheel-side tightening during their truing attempt,
because the rim was clearly offset toward the non-freewheel side.
Actually, this is something that happens to my wheels fairly often
when people mess around with truing.
In fact, the customer confirmed it too—
there was one spot with a massive lateral wobble.
Even if you clean that up nicely, this center offset won't go away.
And on top of the lateral runout, there was enough radial runout that
the customer pointed it out themselves, and when I put it on the truing stand,
it showed pretty significant radial runout.
You could say the rim was running eccentrically.
Please, just stop fiddling around with truing attempts.
Going back in the timeline now—this is the starting state from the beginning.
In the case of Italian lacing on the freewheel side, the spokes that run in the porcupine direction
are six inpoke spokes, all showing some degree of deformation or damage.
There were definitely two spokes that absolutely needed replacing, but
I decided to replace all six of them.
↑This is what they looked like.
All fixed.
If there hadn't been any unnecessary fiddling, I think the wheel would've been almost
back to normal with just adjusting the six nipples of the replaced spokes.
But the actual time-consumer was undoing all that other truing attempt damage.
Like I've written before, it's kind of like trying to undo the extra steps
someone else made to a Rubik's cube.
Of course, I'm not against doing some truing as a band-aid for the wobble
caused by the rear derailleur pull-in,
but if you're going to do that, I'd at least hope you'd chase down the lateral runout properly,
even if the center ends up offset or radial runout shows up.
The fact that they didn't even manage that
was confirmed when the customer looked at the before and after.
↑The replaced spokes
By the way, since I called it truing work on a wheel I built,
I didn't charge labor—they only paid for the spokes.