kedab
Veteran
- Location
- nr cambridge
i thought i'd share this before i pop off for the night...so, my TCR is fairly new and like any new toy i tend to spend ages admiring it. on a couple of rides, as i set off, i noticed the rear brake rubbing slightly. i whipped off the rear wheel, straightened and tightened the caliper, job done. or so i thought. next ride out it's doing the same thing so i think, well it can't be the caliper and the brakes aren't especially tight, let's have a look at how true that wheel actually is...now, in my mind i'm quite capable of sorting most things and i'm prepared to give stuff a bash, i am male and i have a number of toolboxes. this means i can fix stuff, especially after watching a 'how to' on youtube...after a few minutes of tweaking i think i've got the wheel almost sorted...just a couple of extra tweaks here and there and it'll be grand...20 minutes later i'm starting to worry i've lost my way as the wheel is now so out of true it's listing to the right and pressing on the frame, like me doing to the 'wall bump' home after a night out on the lash...10 minutes of blind panic later and i accept i've completely banjaxed it, there's no recovering the situation. i've loosened off every spoke in the wheel, stuck the bike over my shoulder and walk the walk of shame down to my LBS where i very sheepishly explain my wrongdoing and hand it over to mark who, without too much mickey taking hands me a phone number for a bike mechanics course, encourages me to go on it and tells me he'll have the wheel sorted by the morrow...his words of wisdom, 'fixing a bike is a skill, truing a wheel is an art'...i'll not be doing that again 
