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Truing a wheel
While fitting new pads on the back wheel on my Trek Hybrid I noticed a small
out-of-true in just one spot, causing a brake to drag without making an allowance for it. It's (factory built) bontrager low-ish spoke count wheel. If it was a regular wheel I wouldn't feel too nervous of tightening the opposite spoke(s) a little to pull it back, but never touched these wheels before. Should I be able to adjust this myself, or should take it to someone with a rig who does this for a living (or just ignore it) ? Please, no suggestions to buy a better wheel :-) Jc |
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On 2006-12-07, Josey jc@nospam wrote:
While fitting new pads on the back wheel on my Trek Hybrid I noticed a small out-of-true in just one spot, causing a brake to drag without making an allowance for it. It's (factory built) bontrager low-ish spoke count wheel. If it was a regular wheel I wouldn't feel too nervous of tightening the opposite spoke(s) a little to pull it back, but never touched these wheels before. Should I be able to adjust this myself, or should take it to someone with a rig who does this for a living (or just ignore it) ? Why not just try adjusting it? I have no experience of low spoke-count wheels, but the Mavic pdfs explain procedures for their low spoke-count wheels and the principles are the same as for a normal wheel as far as I can see. You might find the obvious spoke actually feels a bit loose. Is it on the drive side that it's hitting the brake? |
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"Ben C" wrote in message Why not just try adjusting it? I did. It was the drive side. There were no obviously loose spokes. It took me 30 minutes, but it's just about perfect again now. thanks. Jc. |
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