A customer left me with the front and rear wheels from a Zonda.

Let's start with the rear wheel.
They asked for an inspection, or rather, I went ahead and did one on my own.

These came with the complete bike,
but the customer rode in on this wheel
and swapped over to a Nomulab wheel.
Since they're being sent back to the customer's place, I figured I'd do a quick inspection while I'm at it.
I offered to waive the shipping and inspection fee since they bought the Nomulab wheel,
so this time it's free of charge.



Looking at the brake zone and the freewheel body,
it looks pretty much like new.



The rim was laterally off-center.
For a Zonda, that's a pretty significant amount of misalignment.
Just because a wheel is cheap doesn't mean
you should cut corners on it,
but there's a noticeable difference between Zonda-level wheels and cheaper ones—
the cheaper wheels seem to ship out with precision
that looks like they were apprentice training projects rather than work from experienced craftspeople.



I trued the lateral runout and centered the rim.


Next up, the front wheel.



There's some lateral centering issues, but the bigger problem was
significant radial runout.
The brake zone looks clean, but there are wear marks in it,
and you can see how the position of those marks shifts relative to the brake zone width
depending on the phase of the runout.

Fixing radial runout is basically
closer to re-spoke building than straightforward truing.



I trued out the radial runout and centered it.