A customer brought in a rear wheel from a Bora One 35 (high-end road wheelset).
To be precise, it's the clincher rim bright label specification.
One spoke on the freewheel side is broken.
It's not the kind of spot where a spoke would naturally snap from fatigue,
so there must be a history of impact—something like a hit from the rear derailleur that bent it.
In cases like this I'd normally suspect deformation in all the spokes on that side,
but after checking, it was just this one.
It's fixed.
When replacing the spoke,
I didn't turn the other nipples enough to shift the wheel center,
but once I finished truing,
the rim had drifted to the right side
within a reasonable range given its age,
so I corrected that too.
Before all that, there was play in the rear hub bearing cones,
which I fixed beforehand.
↑The replaced spoke
...If it were just this repair,
I probably wouldn't have written an article about it.
The customer who brought in this Bora One said to me,
"I saw your article the other day
and I bought a Nepste wheel too!"
So I heard the whole story.
This is just my own speculation, but
I think the Bora One's broken spoke didn't happen yesterday or the day before—
it's been broken for much longer,
and the customer was thinking "I'll get it fixed eventually"
when they saw the Nepste article.
That's probably why they made the trip here,
to share their own experience about it.
I'll write about what they told me in the next post.
To be precise, it's the clincher rim bright label specification.
One spoke on the freewheel side is broken.
It's not the kind of spot where a spoke would naturally snap from fatigue,
so there must be a history of impact—something like a hit from the rear derailleur that bent it.
In cases like this I'd normally suspect deformation in all the spokes on that side,
but after checking, it was just this one.
It's fixed.
When replacing the spoke,
I didn't turn the other nipples enough to shift the wheel center,
but once I finished truing,
the rim had drifted to the right side
within a reasonable range given its age,
so I corrected that too.
Before all that, there was play in the rear hub bearing cones,
which I fixed beforehand.
↑The replaced spoke
...If it were just this repair,
I probably wouldn't have written an article about it.
The customer who brought in this Bora One said to me,
"I saw your article the other day
and I bought a Nepste wheel too!"
So I heard the whole story.
This is just my own speculation, but
I think the Bora One's broken spoke didn't happen yesterday or the day before—
it's been broken for much longer,
and the customer was thinking "I'll get it fixed eventually"
when they saw the Nepste article.
That's probably why they made the trip here,
to share their own experience about it.
I'll write about what they told me in the next post.