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• brute force

  Truing wheels is a subtle art, with which I have a longtime, admittedly amateur acquaintance. But I think you have ignored the most useful tool in the mobile shop - placing the rim across your knee (as if trying to break it up for firewood) and bending it back into shape. For me this is an essential prelude to any kind of fine adjustment with a spoke wrench. And usually this step alone is enough to make the wheel rideable. In any case spokes just don't have the leverage to effect large changes in rim position without huge variations in tension. I find that a properly manhandled rim can often be trued well enough to be forgotten about, at least until the next accident. Given a choice between the knee and the spoke wrench, I'd take the knee.

  Posted by Mike London July 25, 2011 09:16:18