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Wheel truing

  • 24-10-2010 9:05pm
    #1
    smalltalk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 135 ✭✭


    Hi,can anyone recommend someone thats does wheel truing in Waterford,south KK or south Tipp.I have tried doing it myself but made a b##ls of it.


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  • #2
    gman2k
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,076 ✭✭✭gman2k


    smalltalk wrote: »
    Hi,can anyone recommend someone thats does wheel truing in Waterford,south KK or south Tipp.I have tried doing it myself but made a b##ls of it.

    How much of a balls of it did you make?
    I'm in South KK btw


  • #3
    smalltalk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 135 ✭✭smalltalk


    @gman, Its a rear wheel and by the time I had finished most of the wobbles had gone but the dishing had been messed up,had to bring it to a lbs to get it sorted out.The bike shop sorted the wheel but it loses its trueness fairly quickly,yesterday I had to open out the rear calipers to stop the brake pads rubbing.


  • #4
    hawkwing
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,830 ✭✭✭hawkwing


    Try Worlwidecycles in Clonmel,fixed a fairly buckled one for me and it's fine since.


  • #5
    gman2k
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,076 ✭✭✭gman2k


    smalltalk wrote: »
    @gman, Its a rear wheel and by the time I had finished most of the wobbles had gone but the dishing had been messed up,had to bring it to a lbs to get it sorted out.The bike shop sorted the wheel but it loses its trueness fairly quickly,yesterday I had to open out the rear calipers to stop the brake pads rubbing.

    Tony in Dungarvan would get you sorted also.
    When the wheel gets this bad, it probably needs to be rebuilt entirely, and loctite put on the nipples.


  • #6
    doozerie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,830 ✭✭✭doozerie


    If the spokes are coming loose so quickly then it suggests that they were never tensioned enough in the first place which suggests that the person who worked on the wheel did not know what they were doing (or didn't care to spend the time to do a good job). Anyone can true a wheel, maintaining proper tension on the spokes is the real challenge, and it's not even that much of a challenge to be honest. Bike shops are filled with people who can do the former, but not necessarily the latter.

    As for putting loctite on the nipples, personally I believe this is a bad idea but then my experience is limited to wheels that I have built only for myself. If the spokes are tensioned correctly you'll have a good wheel which won't need loctite, if they are not tensioned correctly then loctite will disguise this fact leaving you with a usable but poor quality wheel and that's assuming that the loctite actually holds.


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