Old 07-31-08 | 06:06 AM
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littlew00denb0x
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Originally Posted by roy5000x2
my Race Lites are true as a true can get, even after 1000+ miles on them. Tell the guys at the shop to tension them up right. The owner of my LBS took about 10 pairs of the wheels, took tensions on all of them, made a spreadsheet, sent it to Bontrager, then correctly tensioned each one of them. They are amazing wheels now. They were crap when they came in. Like, 2 or 3 spokes would usually have a tension of <20 on each wheel.


This seems to be the issue. I took the wheel in yesterday and had the local LBS wheel builder look at it. He said that the spokes were not tensioned enough. I believe that he said they needed somewhere between 110-130? I can't recall. However I do believe he said that one side of the wheel needs more spoke tension than the other side. http://bontrager.com/technology/offset_spoke_bed/en Basically It all boils down to him re-tensioning the spokes and saying I shouldn't have any issues now. I'll be out riding later today and I'll post an update.

Paired spoke technology: http://bontrager.com/technology/paired_spokes/en
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