Originally Posted by lawkd
Grasschopper, the other concern when you true and tension a wheel, is that the spoke tension needs to be as identical as possible in all spokes on a given side of a wheel. Even-ness of tension is even more important than micro-adjustments of true. When the tension varies from spoke to spoke, even if the wheel *looks* true, it won't stay true and eventually you will begin to break spokes.
I think this is the main issue. I don't have a tension tool and I worry about going too high in the tension as I am not sure how it should sound. I do have my doubts about these wheels being properly tensioned initially and the best I try to do is get the wheel true and round. The fronts don't seem to be an issue and I know that is because they don't see nearly the weight of the rear.
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