Originally Posted by
mr. peugeot
I looked closely at the areas around the spoke holes, and there were no cracks. It's a 24 spoke wheel but I'm not sure what guage the spokes are. Does this mean the wheel hop is fixable by truing? Thanks.
The key is the nature of the bend, especially radial bends. Hard local bends cannot be resolved by the spokes, either because they're within the space between spokes, or they require excessive force to flex back home. These need to be straightened back close to target by brute force bending (cold-setting for the queasy) then brought the rest of the way via the spokes.
The easy rule, spokes can
flex a rim true, but they cannot bend a rim.