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Old 05-19-10 | 03:22 PM
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cny-bikeman
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Originally Posted by dvs cycles
The spoke probably was tensioned too tightly because of the truing. The wheel went out of true because the rim is damaged and the shop had to tension the crap out of that spoke and maybe some each side of it to bring the wheel back.
If the shop did that find another shop. One does not have to overtension spokes unless one does not know how to relieve bends in a rim before truing. A wheel that has been physically bent in an accident must be bent back in line "as good as possible" before any truing is done. If you get a wheel back and there are spokes on either side that are much tighter or looser than the others on that side, or there is a large flat spot where it was out of true then the shop did not do a proper job.

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