Originally Posted by ChroMo2
if you ride your bike like an elderly person your rim may never need inspection or adjustment. If you ride your bike to the extreme, your rim will require adjustments via the spokes. Thats' the total reason why any bicyclist has replaced a rim and it's severity can go all the up to a "tacoed" rim. And if you understand how a wheel is made (by experience), you can fix a bent rim just by the tensioning of spokes. So if you claim a properly built rim never needs truing, there are a lotta poor wheel manufacturers building rims. Personally I don't know anyone who gets through a season of intense biking who doesn't have to adjust their spokes or go all the way to the measure of replacing a wheel. So it's better to do it yourself and be good at it, or riding a bike aint gonna be that much fun. The dude who you copied the quote from is wrong. If he said that to me I'ld have to second analize any imformation coming from that source.
This posting is a bit hard to understand since the poster doesn't seem to understand the difference between a "rim" and a "wheel" but I would agree that a properly built wheel should give long service without needing any adjustment.
If you regularly damage wheels, it suggests that you are using equipment that isn't strong enough for your riding style.
Fixed gear wheels, in particular, ought to be extra trouble-free due to the symmetrical lacing of the dishless rear hubs.
If you're having actual trouble with your
rims it suggests that you're running tires that are either too skinny or not inflated sufficiently for your type of cycling and surface conditions.
Sheldon "Good Wheels Last" Brown
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