A customer brought in a Bora WTO45 rear wheel for repair.

Something got caught in the wheel, and
two spokes on the non-drive side were bent.
The customer noticed this themselves and
had a nearby shop do some truing work,
but since they didn't have spare spokes in stock,
the wheel was brought to us later.
Since there was so much runout that the wheel was unrideable,
they were prepared to pay labor twice—
the temporary fix at the neighborhood shop,
and spoke replacement at our shop.
"I'll take it to the Nomunlab later, so just do the truing"
—they probably didn't need to tell the nearby shop that.


I loosened the tension on the two bent spokes
a bit.
You can see the two spokes on the non-drive side in the image—
they're clearly bent.


↑This angle shows it more clearly



After replacing the spokes and
completing both radial and lateral truing,
I checked the center gauge for the first time
(without even looking at interim measurements)—
and it was spot-on.



It's fixed.


↑The spokes I replaced
The bottom one in the image is the severely bent spoke from earlier,
and the other one doesn't look too bent at first glance, but


when I lay a new silver spoke parallel to the unbent section on the hub end,
you can see that it's bent enough to warrant replacement.