Another day, another wheel (you know the drill).
A customer dropped off both wheels from Nomu Lab Wheel #1 for me.
The hub is a Blackk Hub (←not a typo).
Apparently they got into an accident while riding an MTB and checking their phone's GPS map,
and the frame's rear end got bent inward.
One spoke is bent.
It's on the freewheel side of a semi-comp hub, so it's a DT Competition spoke.
But aside from directly under this bent spoke,
the wheel was barely out of true at all.
Apart from the nipple at the spot where I replaced this spoke,
I only touched 3 spots during the truing process.
All fixed.
↑the replaced spoke
My guess is that this spoke's deformation is probably unrelated to the accident.
If a spoke gets caught hard on a Metal Kuwagata (→here: Horror Edition) (→here: Dread Edition),
it can end up bent like this.
Now for the front wheel.
I set a gauge to barely touch at the position where it deflects most to the left,
then looked for where it deflects most to the right...
Here. What the heck.
It's in a potato chip state.
The rear end is bent inward and the rear wheel is basically undamaged,
yet only the front wheel is potato-chipped.
Seems like they got T-boned from the left by an MTB coming out of nowhere,
hit on the left side of the front wheel, and went down to the right.
Moving the rim to its new home...
Got it assembled.
Blackk Hub 20H black CX-RAY outpoke radial laced with
green aluminum nipples.
I also replaced the nipples along with the rim.
A customer dropped off both wheels from Nomu Lab Wheel #1 for me.
The hub is a Blackk Hub (←not a typo).
Apparently they got into an accident while riding an MTB and checking their phone's GPS map,
and the frame's rear end got bent inward.
One spoke is bent.
It's on the freewheel side of a semi-comp hub, so it's a DT Competition spoke.
But aside from directly under this bent spoke,
the wheel was barely out of true at all.
Apart from the nipple at the spot where I replaced this spoke,
I only touched 3 spots during the truing process.
All fixed.
↑the replaced spoke
My guess is that this spoke's deformation is probably unrelated to the accident.
If a spoke gets caught hard on a Metal Kuwagata (→here: Horror Edition) (→here: Dread Edition),
it can end up bent like this.
Now for the front wheel.
I set a gauge to barely touch at the position where it deflects most to the left,
then looked for where it deflects most to the right...
Here. What the heck.
It's in a potato chip state.
The rear end is bent inward and the rear wheel is basically undamaged,
yet only the front wheel is potato-chipped.
Seems like they got T-boned from the left by an MTB coming out of nowhere,
hit on the left side of the front wheel, and went down to the right.
Moving the rim to its new home...
Got it assembled.
Blackk Hub 20H black CX-RAY outpoke radial laced with
green aluminum nipples.
I also replaced the nipples along with the rim.