Even though people mentioned the distortion at the join. There was one there, but I easily straightened that out.
Originally Posted by
eddy m
There can definitely be enough tension to distort the rim a little, especially from the drive side spokes.
I think what eddy m says here is what I'm having. When I inspect the the distortions closer, they seem to be inline with the spokes. I didn't think this would happen. I generally thought the deflection caused by spoke tension would be smoothed out by the rigidity of the rim.
Another wierd thing I noticed was that these distortion caused the rim to be pulled in in-between the spokes rather than at the pokes.