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Old 12-15-07, 11:45 AM
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Originally Posted by George
I was at Performance Bike yesterday and I was telling the mechanic that I just got done truing my wheels and that I think I have to get them better. I told him that I got them at about .024mm and he said at school, they said that 2.0mm was acceptable. Doesn't that seem like a lot? Or maybe, I'm close enough and not to worry about it.
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Hi George,

I think you might have the decimal in the wrong place here. .024mm is less than one-thousandth of an inch. As a machinist . . . I can guarantee that you did not true your rim to that accuracy. Maybe .24??

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