Originally Posted by cyccommute
Truing wheels is a pretty simple skill to learn. Most of the time truing a wheel just takes small adjustments. It really shouldn't require messing with the overall tension of the wheel.
Truing wheels is simple. However merely truing a wheel that has recurring problems doesn't do ****.
You have to have a deeper understanding of why it is going out of true and how a wheel really works (it's a tensioned structure and spokes going slack really screws it up ). If you never experience this problem good for you becasue then you never have to think about it.