jyl

Another wheel truing topic. Sometimes I find a wide spot on a rim, where the rim touches both arms of the caliper (or both brake pads, if truing in the frame). Does anyone have a good technique for squeezing these wide spots to be the same width as the rest of the rim? Or do you use sandpaper to knock down the high spots?

Also, I usually attribute these wide spots to having hit a pothole etc with an underinflated tire. Myth? In the current situation, it is in a well used set of Mavic Open Pros, so I don't think it is just sloppy manufacture of a new rim.

The extra width is maybe a couple tenths of a mm.