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03-10-10 | 10:58 AM
#2
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Seriously?
03-10-10 | 11:06 AM
#4
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03-10-10 | 11:28 AM
#5
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Truing wheels isnt all that hard. Getting them super good takes a lot of time and patience, but just getting them where they need to be to ride safely is pretty easy once you try it
03-10-10 | 12:52 PM
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cab horn
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From: Toronto
Bikes: 1987 Bianchi Campione
Agreed. You can fasten a zip-tie to your fork or use your brake pads for truing a wheel. My younger brother did that when we were younger (brake pads) and made his wheel straighter and it no longer rubbed the brake pads. Just get a proper sized spoke wrench (or like me, buy a Park 3-sided spoke wrench, it works fine) DONT buy the cheaper multi-size spoke wrenches, as they are soft and deform easily, or worse, round the nipple. A good spoke wrench is worth its weight in gold, IMO.
Truing wheels isnt all that hard. Getting them super good takes a lot of time and patience, but just getting them where they need to be to ride safely is pretty easy once you try it
Truing wheels isnt all that hard. Getting them super good takes a lot of time and patience, but just getting them where they need to be to ride safely is pretty easy once you try it
03-10-10 | 01:20 PM
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lay it on it's side and push down real hard on one side. that should taco the wheel giving you no choice but to GET PROFESSIONAL HELP!
03-10-10 | 01:49 PM
#8
Great State of Varmint
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From: Dante's Third Ring
You really should get help - or start learning about how to properly true a wheel. You don't just start turning a spoke here, and one over there, and hoping it comes out right. It won't. And in a worst-case scenario, your wheel could have a catastrophic failure while doing 30mph on a downhill.
There was an unscrupulous bike-shop in my old town. The owner gave everyone who came in a cheap spoke-wrench. His return business was excellent.
There was an unscrupulous bike-shop in my old town. The owner gave everyone who came in a cheap spoke-wrench. His return business was excellent.
03-10-10 | 03:43 PM
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03-10-10 | 04:01 PM
#10
Bill
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From: HIGHLANDS RANCH, CO
Bikes: Specialized Globe Sport, Specialized Stumpjumper FSR Pro
My explanation of the difference between hard and easy is - HARD is when you don't know how to do it and EASY is what when you know how. Wheel truing is hard. Wheel truing is easy. Learn how using one of the many excellent free resources like the Park site or Sheldon Brown, or https://www.wheelpro.co.uk/wheelbuilding/book.php. Try it, you'll like it. It is a rewarding, satisfying skill to build. And it will help keep your wheels straight and round and long lasting.
03-10-10 | 08:54 PM
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If it isn't very round, then you're getting in the deep end.
03-11-10 | 02:26 PM
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From: Oakville Ontario
Wait, I thought explosives was the proper way. It gets results anyway.
03-11-10 | 09:18 PM
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Never mind operator; he just wants to preserve the hallowed mystique of his profession.
It ain't rocket surgery.
It ain't rocket surgery.
03-11-10 | 09:59 PM
#18
ride, paint, ride
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From: San Diego
Bikes: Cannondale R300 Caad2
^^agree. And if the OP is patient and reads the instructions referenced above, he'll learn a lot from this. Always good to know how to true a wheel. If you're out on the road somewhere and break a spoke, knowing how to true the wheel well enough to keep it ridable can be the difference between getting home or not.
