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Old 04-04-09 | 04:54 PM
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Originally Posted by noglider
jaxgtr, your wheels go out of true because your spokes are too loose. Your wheels should not go out of true. Also, be sure your tire pressure is up there, but mostly, it's a spoke tension deficiency.
Yea, I thought so too. I had them checked by a solid wheel builder I know and he told me that the rims are really soft and were even hard for him to get proper tension and trueness. They stay true about 400-600 miles, so I had them re-spoked with 14g straight gauge as a last ditch attempt to see if it would help, but in the end, they still flex a lot. I get very little if any flex from my Deep V's on my CAAD9 and I am a big boy at 287 and outside of the initial re-check at 400 miles, they have caused me no issues in the last 1500 miles. So in the end, I think a better level rim will work better.
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