Is this wheel dead?

[PeteXXX]

Asking for a friend, is this repairable, or dead?

There's a slight buckle as well, but that might just be the spoke tension.
I think he said it's 18 months old.

Dead?

 

[I like Skol]

How did it happen? Might be worth asking Mavic about warranty if it wasn't crash damage (or even if it is) they seem to offer pretty good warranty conditions.

 

[PeteXXX]

He bought the bike 2nd hand. He thought he'd mullahed it on our ride on Sunday, but he looked at the pics he'd taken before and the damage was already there.
He's approaching Mavic for some help.

 

[Illaveago]

Ooh! It is thin. I think the wheel speaks for itself ! A Rodney Trotter phrase.

 

[Yellow Saddle]

No, it isn't dead. That broken bit is just a fairing and not structural. The spokes anchor deep inside, on a stronger rim. It looks to me as if the spoke got a knock and broke a little hole in the fairing. You can confirm by plucking the spoke and see if it produces a tone. If it does, it is still anchored and the wheel is good to ride.

Here's a piece of a similar Mavic wheel. This is the older Cosmic which still had an aluminium rim glued to a carbon fibre fairing.

The damage is therefore entirely cosmetic.

 

[Racing roadkill]

It’s got a bit of damage to the shroud, that’s not structural, so sort the buckle out ( probably to do with that spoke, which is a simple replacement spoke job, and re true of the rim ), and as long as the cosmetic look of the hole isn’t a massive trauma, it’ll be good to go.

 

[glasgowcyclist]

No, no, 'e's uh,...he's resting.

 

[PeteXXX]

Thanks folks. Good news for him, then, if Mavic don't want to help or if it's out of warranty.

 

[biggs682]

Looks ugly but useable

 

[Kempstonian]

No, no, 'e's uh,...he's resting.

Pining for the fjords, no doubt.