Originally Posted by
BobbyG
I carry a spoke wrench and have become obsessed with truing.
My point in another thread.
If you get the tension correctly and true the wheels, you won't have to think again about truing a wheel for 10,000+ miles.
I build my wheels, set the tension and true. After a couple hundred miles, I check the tension, make any adjustments and true them once again "IF" they happen to go out.
After this, I don't have to true them again for another 14,000 miles.
No exaggeration here, I have taken my wheels to a shop 3 or 4 weeks in a row for truing after having a wheel built for the simple fact that they true the wheels but don't pay attention to the tension.
Again, there is a 3 good reason I started building my own wheels. True stand, dish tool, tension meter!