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That Tuesday where nothing went right on a 2018 Trek Emonda

Had a day last week where I snapped 3 spokes truing a wheel, then stripped a bleed port on a set of Ultegra shifters. The kicker was when a customer came in and said his brake cable snapped while he was going down a hill near Lake Ontario. Spent 4 hours fixing that mess alone. Anyone else have a shift where every single repair fights back?
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robert_ross95
Man I once spent three hours trying to bleed a set of brakes only to realize I'd been pulling the wrong lever the whole time... felt like a real genius that day. Hope that customer at least bought you a coffee after all that.
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ward.anna
ward.anna13d ago
Read some forum post saying this generation of Emonda had weird spoke tension issues from the factory.
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tessaperry
tessaperry12d ago
Notice how many problems in life come down to assuming something "should be fine" right out of the box, whether it's a bike wheel or a new appliance. We're conditioned to expect everything to work perfectly from the factory, but reality always has a few loose spokes or finicky tolerances. Usually takes a few miles and a decent mechanic to shake those out, nothing unusual about it.
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