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09-24-15 | 07:17 AM

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Andrew R Stewart

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Originally Posted by FastJake

Wheel is not correctly dished, and the fix is very simple. Tighten the right side spokes and loosen the left side spokes until it is. This may be as little as a quarter turn in each direction. Or you can just live with it. But if it bothers you, which it obviously does, the fix is quick and permanent.

If you took your car to a "mechanic" and they didn't know how to change your oil or you went to a "doctor" and they didn't know how to check your pulse, would you give them a break?

Someone that can't figure out a wheel is incorrectly dished is not a bike mechanic. An employee or a salesman maybe, but not a mechanic.

I wouldn't trust a frame to be a dishing tool. I do agree with the simple ability for a bike mechanic to check wheel dish is so basic that... And never done with a truing stand only. BTW a QR spring installed backward will make a properly dished wheel sit off center in the frame. Andy.

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