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Old 10-17-15 | 12:32 PM
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From: Ciudad de Vacas, Tejas

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Originally Posted by Mumonkan
cleaned the trek and used the tensiometer to totally square away my first wheel build

front wheel: almost spot on just from feel, generally even tension

rear: needed more tension on the NDS side, generally tension wasnt very even

now i know why hubs with a lot of dish can be annoying to build with. DS was maxed out but i couldnt bring NDS up too high before knocking it out of dish
One trick I've seen is to use fewer spokes on the NDS, such that individual spoke tension is higher.
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