Originally Posted by
SurferRosa
Maybe you can! I have a hard enough time truing the wheel with the tire on there. It messes with my sight. A truing stand might help, but I'm a cheap bastage.
I'm both a cheap and lazy bastage. I did buy a truing stand, but with a broken mount, so it was, like, $5 at a swap years ago, and it's a slight PITA to use with the funny mount. And I'm often too lazy to use it. If it's just a quick post-pothole true-up, or after a single spoke replacement, I true the wheel "in frame" on the work stand, tire on, and just hold something (literally whatever's handy, a pen, a screwdriver, the spoke wrench...) on the stay next to the rim, and spin it. So I'm not dependent on eyeballing it.