Redishing a rear wheel - Is this wrong??
After a lenghly discussion on this forum, I changed my 5-speed freewheel to a 7-speed freewheel (albeit at the risk of bending my axle). Part of the process was to re-dish the wheel.
Instead of me investing in the $150 worth of tools to do this (and do it badly in that it would be my first time) I elected to give it to my LBS. (ok may $150 is too much but tools of any quality will still be much more than the $20 the LBS charged to do it)
I just got a call from the LBS. I was told they couldn't totally align the wheel in the center because the spoke tension on one side would be too loose and the spoke tension on the other side would exceed the recommended maximum. Does this sound right?
I would think the process would be that you'd loosen one side and tighten the other side (which would add tension to the side you just loosened) and in the end, they'd be the same tension plus the wheel center would be shifted to one side.
What am I missing?