A customer brought in the rear wheel of a Roval CLX64 for service.
They got hit and broke one spoke.
↑This one
Our shop isn't their nearest dealer, and they passed by several, even dozens of other shops to come here, and on top of that they came in with bad weather, so it might be odd of me to ask, but I asked "Why didn't you try to get it fixed at a Specialized shop?" and they told me something I can't write about here.
I see. Maybe shops that are just bike retailers without actual mechanical expertise aren't needed anymore? (Extreme opinion)
The nipple fell inside the rim, and the broken spoke seemed to be attached over a considerable length. It fell inside because the rim has high sidewalls. Anyway, I sensed traces of a giant balloon patch inside, so I managed to recover it without peeling off the rim tape.
I also recovered the bent spoke with its nipple. There was no deformation visible on the inner rim edge on the concave side of the spoke bend, so I'll reuse the nipple.
For just replacing one spoke, I didn't think it was necessary to peel off the rim tape. I called the nipple with a magnet and adjusted it by gripping the inner rim edge. Actually I ended up replacing two spokes and the wheel center was also off, so I ended up turning nearly all the nipples in the end. In cases like the previous article's Alpinist CLX rebuild, I really had no choice but to peel off the rim tape.
The customer brought a Venge complete bike in their car, and the rear wheel's centering was badly off, so they asked me to check the front wheel too. When I looked at it, it was slightly better than the rear but still off-center. The direction of the center deviation is opposite to what would be caused by tubeless tire inflation pressure—it's actually amplified—so it's not intentional. Either way, with this rim's inner width they wouldn't be inflating to 9 bar, and with the high rim sidewalls the effect of air pressure on spoke tension loss is minimal. Plus the customer is running tube-type clincher tires.
It's fixed.
The spoke that was broken took the first impact, and the adjacent spoke was slightly bent from the second impact.
Yeah, Grandprix 5000 is the way!
↑The spoke I replaced
The second-impact spoke that didn't break, but—
It's bent partway along.
Note: the ruler is only placed there as a "straight reference" standard—
I'm not actually measuring spoke length.
Looking at the sharp-angle side surface of the bent section—
There were impact marks.
They got hit and broke one spoke.
↑This one
Our shop isn't their nearest dealer, and they passed by several, even dozens of other shops to come here, and on top of that they came in with bad weather, so it might be odd of me to ask, but I asked "Why didn't you try to get it fixed at a Specialized shop?" and they told me something I can't write about here.
I see. Maybe shops that are just bike retailers without actual mechanical expertise aren't needed anymore? (Extreme opinion)
The nipple fell inside the rim, and the broken spoke seemed to be attached over a considerable length. It fell inside because the rim has high sidewalls. Anyway, I sensed traces of a giant balloon patch inside, so I managed to recover it without peeling off the rim tape.
I also recovered the bent spoke with its nipple. There was no deformation visible on the inner rim edge on the concave side of the spoke bend, so I'll reuse the nipple.
For just replacing one spoke, I didn't think it was necessary to peel off the rim tape. I called the nipple with a magnet and adjusted it by gripping the inner rim edge. Actually I ended up replacing two spokes and the wheel center was also off, so I ended up turning nearly all the nipples in the end. In cases like the previous article's Alpinist CLX rebuild, I really had no choice but to peel off the rim tape.
The customer brought a Venge complete bike in their car, and the rear wheel's centering was badly off, so they asked me to check the front wheel too. When I looked at it, it was slightly better than the rear but still off-center. The direction of the center deviation is opposite to what would be caused by tubeless tire inflation pressure—it's actually amplified—so it's not intentional. Either way, with this rim's inner width they wouldn't be inflating to 9 bar, and with the high rim sidewalls the effect of air pressure on spoke tension loss is minimal. Plus the customer is running tube-type clincher tires.
It's fixed.
The spoke that was broken took the first impact, and the adjacent spoke was slightly bent from the second impact.
Yeah, Grandprix 5000 is the way!
↑The spoke I replaced
The second-impact spoke that didn't break, but—
It's bent partway along.
Note: the ruler is only placed there as a "straight reference" standard—
I'm not actually measuring spoke length.
Looking at the sharp-angle side surface of the bent section—
There were impact marks.