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Old 12-12-21 | 11:56 AM
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Bikes: Colnago Brain, Master Bi-Titanio, Vitus 979, Specialized Roubaix, Salsa Marrakesh, and a couple of Treks

IMHO, asking your LBS to tension the spokes and true the wheel is different than having him just true the wheel. This is based on an argument back in 1993, with a LSB about the wheels on a new bike I just purchased . It’s the age old, solve the problem or treat the symptom.

“The Bicycle Wheel”, by the late Jobst Brandt describes a wheel trueness in terms of radial, lateral, and center, as seen in the Park video. The book also goes into torsional load and stiffness. I always wondered why I could get trueness while my tension had wild variance. Once I noticed fewer spokes on wheels it occurred to me that a 24 versus a 36 spoke wheel could explain poor spoke tension uniformity (rear or front wheel). Essentially, I’m may be using fewer spokes to obtain stiffness while using the extra spokes to obtain trueness.
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