Bora Ultra 50 Clincher Dark Label

A customer dropped off the rear wheel of a Bora Ultra 50 with me.
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The chain dropped during a front shift
(maybe they kept pedaling while the chain was jammed)
The derailleur bracket snapped off, got wrapped up in the rear wheel,
and the wheel developed lateral wobble, so they wanted it fixed.

When I put it on the truing stand, I found a nasty flat spot,
and directly below it I could see a deformed spoke.

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↑Looking at the diagonal across the image, viewing from the right side of the wheel,
the spoke to the right of G3 was clearly bent.

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↑Then I noticed afterward that
looking from the right side of the wheel, going counterclockwise,
the adjacent G3's spoke on the right end was also deformed.

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I loosened the nipples and released the tension,
then shot another photo.

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I replaced 2 spokes, and when I tried to true the lateral wobble
by adjusting just those 2 nipples, the wheel came out nearly perfect on both sides,
and I only had to barely turn one other nipple.
This tells me that just before the derailleur got caught,
the wheel was already nearly true,
and when I first checked the centering at that point,
the wheel center was dead-on.
In other words, there was no centering issue from the start either.

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All fixed.

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The tape I used to mark the replacement spokes
has a "1" on the spoke I first noticed was bent,
and a "2" on the one I discovered afterward.

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↑The replacement spokes
The one at the top of the image is the original spoke 1,

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and only this one has a nasty impact dent on it.
I also checked the hub cone adjustment and
the freewheel body bearing play,
and there were no issues with any of that.

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