A customer brought in a Racing Zero 2WAY-FIT rear wheel for repair.
It got hit by a car and the spokes bent.
The front wheel from a different vintage Racing Zero that was on the bike at the time of the accident had a crushed rim, so that needed to be replaced too.
↑This is the bent spoke viewed from the right side (freewheel side), but
when you look from the non-freewheel side,
there's a scrape mark along the spoke.
The direction of the bend and the scrape are actually opposite to the direction the wheel would wrap around if it were caught during rotation.
To cause this kind of damage and deformation while chasing after a spinning wheel would require quite a serious collision.
All fixed.
↑The replaced spoke
The scrape and deformation on the spoke were as I described earlier, but
due to the spoke deformation,
the nipple had cracked.
It got hit by a car and the spokes bent.
The front wheel from a different vintage Racing Zero that was on the bike at the time of the accident had a crushed rim, so that needed to be replaced too.
↑This is the bent spoke viewed from the right side (freewheel side), but
when you look from the non-freewheel side,
there's a scrape mark along the spoke.
The direction of the bend and the scrape are actually opposite to the direction the wheel would wrap around if it were caught during rotation.
To cause this kind of damage and deformation while chasing after a spinning wheel would require quite a serious collision.
All fixed.
↑The replaced spoke
The scrape and deformation on the spoke were as I described earlier, but
due to the spoke deformation,
the nipple had cracked.