A customer brought in a Shamal Ultra rear wheel.
The rear derailleur got caught up and the spokes on the freehub side are completely shattered and bent.
It wasn't just a case of loosening the low-side adjustment screw on the rear derailleur too much—
the derailleur dropout bent inward as it downshifted to low gear,
so it's a pretty serious bite.
The frame didn't escape unscathed either. Not only the replaceable dropout portion,
but parts attached to the frame itself were broken off.
Normally this would be a total loss, but the customer wanted to attempt repairs if possible,
so I called my spiritual mentor, and before I could even show him the photos
he said "it'll come out right."
I'm not the one to say this,
but taking on work too readily sometimes leads you straight to hell, so that's not good.
With just a minor bite, only the spokes on the outer porcupine side would bend,
but with a serious catch like this,
the spokes on the opposite porcupine side are broken.
There's deformation on about 5 consecutive spokes,
and one more spoke with deformation at a slightly different angle.
The etching on this Shamal Ultra's freehub-side spokes shows five vertical lines "IIIII".
These spokes were only used on the original Shamal Ultra before the mega-flange design came out.
Besides black, they also appear on the original gold spokes and the titanium-gray color variant,
The original Racing Zero used tie-spokes with one and two vertical lines,
and the original Shamal Ultra's flat-section spokes were built up with versions showing three, four, and five vertical lines.
The four-line and three-line versions have also been adopted on later Racing Zeros and similar wheels that don't use tie-spokes,
so red and silver spokes exist,
but the five-line version only comes in three colors: gold, black, and titanium gray.
This time I'm not going to be a fashion thief, so I'll repair it entirely with black spokes,
but despite the five-line version being rarely used,
I happened to have enough in stock to restore this wheel.
Done.
I've put marker tape on 9 spokes, but I actually replaced 7 of them.
The tape marks "spokes where I completely loosened the nipple,"
and besides the replaced spokes, one was where I released tension to check for suspected deformation,
and the other was
↑In the image, the spoke on the opposite porcupine side in the middle of the three taped spokes needed replacement, but
there was a spoke on the porcupine side
overlapping above it on the hub flange that
I had to remove temporarily.
↑The replaced spokes
The rear derailleur got caught up and the spokes on the freehub side are completely shattered and bent.
It wasn't just a case of loosening the low-side adjustment screw on the rear derailleur too much—
the derailleur dropout bent inward as it downshifted to low gear,
so it's a pretty serious bite.
The frame didn't escape unscathed either. Not only the replaceable dropout portion,
but parts attached to the frame itself were broken off.
so I called my spiritual mentor, and before I could even show him the photos
he said "it'll come out right."
I'm not the one to say this,
but taking on work too readily sometimes leads you straight to hell, so that's not good.
With just a minor bite, only the spokes on the outer porcupine side would bend,
but with a serious catch like this,
the spokes on the opposite porcupine side are broken.
There's deformation on about 5 consecutive spokes,
and one more spoke with deformation at a slightly different angle.
The etching on this Shamal Ultra's freehub-side spokes shows five vertical lines "IIIII".
These spokes were only used on the original Shamal Ultra before the mega-flange design came out.
Besides black, they also appear on the original gold spokes and the titanium-gray color variant,
The original Racing Zero used tie-spokes with one and two vertical lines,
and the original Shamal Ultra's flat-section spokes were built up with versions showing three, four, and five vertical lines.
The four-line and three-line versions have also been adopted on later Racing Zeros and similar wheels that don't use tie-spokes,
so red and silver spokes exist,
but the five-line version only comes in three colors: gold, black, and titanium gray.
This time I'm not going to be a fashion thief, so I'll repair it entirely with black spokes,
but despite the five-line version being rarely used,
I happened to have enough in stock to restore this wheel.
Done.
I've put marker tape on 9 spokes, but I actually replaced 7 of them.
The tape marks "spokes where I completely loosened the nipple,"
and besides the replaced spokes, one was where I released tension to check for suspected deformation,
and the other was
↑In the image, the spoke on the opposite porcupine side in the middle of the three taped spokes needed replacement, but
there was a spoke on the porcupine side
overlapping above it on the hub flange that
I had to remove temporarily.
↑The replaced spokes