Originally Posted by
_ForceD_
II have this spoke…which is actually still installed on the bike after many years. I always said I was going to replace it with a proper spoke. But, it’s working just fine. I did this one by hand. But apparently there are devices that will bend a spoke like this for those that don’t have the traditional spoke head.
There's a trick where you bend a Z double kink in the "head" end of a headless spoke so you can replace a driveside spoke without removing the freewheel/cassette.