A customer brought in a rear wheel from a Fulcrum Speed 55T for repair.
Two spokes on the freewheel side are broken partway through.
After inspecting all the spokes on both sides,
I found bent spokes on the freewheel side.
In the image above, I've removed the spoke head nipple
from the hub flange, but looking back,
that was a bit hasty—I did it just for the sake of the photo.
With a lower spoke count wheel (←compared to 32H), running at high tension,
when multiple spokes in continuous phases are excluded,
the hub axle tilts relative to the rim plane,
and the replacement spoke can't get enough threads on the nipple anymore.
That's what happened this time,
so to replace the spokes on this wheel,
I had to loosen all the nipples on one side (the freewheel side in this case) sufficiently
before I could set the spokes in place.
In terms of work time, this took far longer
than building a front wheel from fresh materials,
but this doesn't meet the conditions of "today's also a whee..." (and so on).
Looking at the rim holes on the freewheel side,
there's a directional orientation to the tangent lacing
once the nipples are seated.
The nipples in the image above can't have spokes arranged
in the direction opposite to the tilt.
You only learn details like this in situations like this,
but it's quite a refined specification.
Fixed.
Since I loosened all the spokes on the freewheel side sufficiently,
marking tape on just the replaced spokes
wouldn't make sense, so I didn't apply any.
↑Replaced spokes
Two are broken, two are bent
These three are pretty obvious
but this fourth one has a somewhat less obvious deformation.
↑When you lift it up and look from the other side, it looks like this
Two spokes on the freewheel side are broken partway through.
After inspecting all the spokes on both sides,
I found bent spokes on the freewheel side.
In the image above, I've removed the spoke head nipple
from the hub flange, but looking back,
that was a bit hasty—I did it just for the sake of the photo.
With a lower spoke count wheel (←compared to 32H), running at high tension,
when multiple spokes in continuous phases are excluded,
the hub axle tilts relative to the rim plane,
and the replacement spoke can't get enough threads on the nipple anymore.
That's what happened this time,
so to replace the spokes on this wheel,
I had to loosen all the nipples on one side (the freewheel side in this case) sufficiently
before I could set the spokes in place.
In terms of work time, this took far longer
than building a front wheel from fresh materials,
but this doesn't meet the conditions of "today's also a whee..." (and so on).
Looking at the rim holes on the freewheel side,
there's a directional orientation to the tangent lacing
once the nipples are seated.
The nipples in the image above can't have spokes arranged
in the direction opposite to the tilt.
You only learn details like this in situations like this,
but it's quite a refined specification.
Fixed.
Since I loosened all the spokes on the freewheel side sufficiently,
marking tape on just the replaced spokes
wouldn't make sense, so I didn't apply any.
↑Replaced spokes
Two are broken, two are bent
These three are pretty obvious
but this fourth one has a somewhat less obvious deformation.
↑When you lift it up and look from the other side, it looks like this