Adjusting brakes

On 7/30/2020 6:58 PM, wrote:
On Thursday, July 30, 2020 at 10:37:46 AM UTC-7, AMuzi wrote:
On 7/30/2020 10:39 AM, wrote:
On Thursday, July 30, 2020 at 8:22:42 AM UTC-7, AMuzi wrote:
On 7/30/2020 10:02 AM, wrote:
On Thursday, July 30, 2020 at 6:53:26 AM UTC-7, Tosspot wrote:

If they need to adjust it, never, ever, take it back.

What you are saying is that you do not know anything about truing a wheel. So your advice is questionable to say the least. Riding a bike, especially those with carbon wheels, beds the spoke nipples, also spoke tension bends the rim differently on a stand than on the road under the jarring of the potholes and bad roads and almost always requires a minor straightening after a hundred miles or so


That's ridiculous.
If we had to ship new wheels back here and then out again
we'd be out of business.

Mr Tosspot had it exactly right that rework means it wasn't
built well to start.



All you're saying is that your customers are willing to accept a mm or two out of true or round.


No, they would scream bloody murder[1].
And they would be right.

[1] American English translation = 'refund'

I'm having a little problem with your claim. Since I had my Madone in the shop a couple of weeks ago the owner told me to bring it back in a couple of weeks so that they could check everything and TRUE THE WHEELS. Now Robby was one of the mechanics for 7/11 when Andy Hampsten won the Giro and in those days they would build all of their own wheels. So it isn't as if he isn't familiar with wheel building. Robby's shop is called "Wheelworks"


When Mr Hampsten and his brother worked for me, they were
taught by my head wheelbuilder at the time, Mr J K Herro.
Andy knows wheels. If a wheel isn't reliable and stable for
100 miles, most classics stages are impossible. I'm not
besmirching your local shop, but 100 miles is a small
interval for a new wheel.
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