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Old 06-11-14 | 08:19 PM
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MikeDVB
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Originally Posted by FBinNY
Yes, but if you have a slightly bent axle (and don't know it) this is a recipe for going crazy as you try to adjust to a moving target.
This should be apparent I would think on the truing stand.

The axle on my Trek is actually slightly bent [not sure how that happened] but I trued it up and checked dish and it was fine. It'll never be perfect but I doubt I could get it perfect with a bent axle even if I used a dishing tool religiously.

I was able to see the very slight bend in the axle as I rotated the wheel on the stand - this was likely the largest reason my wheel was out of true - I don't think that the spokes were really improperly tensioned but instead that the bent axle threw the whole wheel off giving me a wobble.

I was able to clean it up with the stand and get it to rideable condition but, that said, I'm looking at a couple of IGH hubs to build a wheel for this bike on . 11-speed IGH sounds like fun .
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