Truing a Wheel

[ChrisKH]

it is not too bad but time consuming if you are trying to get rid of the last 0.1 mm .

I locate the first and last spokes for the section of rim that is out, then loosen,tighten all the spokes in between as well by about 1/4 turn or less.

without a wheel truing stand you need to decide in which driection way to take the rim - usually that does not matter since the wheel will have been built up to be central.

That's my understanding. We'll see. Can't be any worse than it is now (famous last words).

 

[RedBike]

It's not too bad provided you never check to see if the wheels still round. You spend 15mins getting it straight, then you spend the next few days getting it straight AND round.

 

[ChrisKH]

Well as quick fixes go that was relatively easy. 5-10 minutes it took me. Five of those were spent deciding which way to loosen/tighten the spokes. Made very small adjustments to the area where it was hitting the pad. A couple of even smaller adjustments on re-checking and voila! Wheel was straight. As RedBike says is the wheel now round? Well, that's for another day. In the meantime the wheel and brakes are working fine and I commuted in on it this morning.

Thanks for all the help.

 

[snailracer]

Woah, slow down, folks.

The problem with diving straight in with the spoke wrench is that, most of the time, spoke tensions are actually correct. You must first diagnose whether the rim is out of true because spokes are unevenly tensioned, OR the rim is simply bent. If the rim is simply bent, retensioning spokes will only result in a wheel that looks true but quickly goes out-of-true after the next ride (because the unwarranted spoke retensioning has made it "out-of-round").

http://www.sheldonbr...ips/truing.html

"In most out-of-true wheels, the problem is the result of the rim's being bent...The proper repair in this situation is first to bend the rim back to its normal shape, and then fine-true it with the spokes"

 

[RedBike]

I've just had a wheel trued by the LBS. Thanks to a bent rim the spoke tensions are all over the place so we'll have to see if the wheel remains true or not. (I'm guessing not!)

 

[PpPete]

your guess is indeed correct