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Old 09-03-11 | 09:03 AM
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Originally Posted by max5480
8. Re-tension them after a couple hundred miles.
I've never used grease because I didn't want them to loosen up. Don't think they twisted up at all.
I just re-tensioned my Kinlin xr-200 wheels with sapim laser and took them up to avg. 120 kg, they had dropped to around 90-100 kg after a few hundred miles.
Sometimes you have to do some spoke bending at the hub flanges and rim to make sure the spoke tension doesn't do the bending for you and consequently loosen the spoke.
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