One of the spokes on my rear wheel was loose so before getting a new tyre fitted I decided to get the tyre taken off and bring wheel back home to have a look myself. I’ve never seen inside my wheels in the 7 years and 70k miles I’ve had them…
Hmm, they need a bit of cleaning up! There, that’s a bit better…
After cleaning I put a bit of rust treatment on the rusty bits. Don’t know if it’ll make much difference, and was hesitant at first in case it reacted with inner tube, but it’ll be a day or two before it gets fitted and the spoke tape will be covering most of it. Speaking of which, got a new one of those on order, here’s the old one…
With wheel prepared, I cut the loose spoke to remove it and after cleaning up the nipple seat fitted a new one. I tightened it so when plucked it made a tone of a pitch similar to its neighbours.