![]() The truing process itself is not terribly complicated: Working on a truing stand or bicycle, however, it appears as though you are tightening by turning counterclockwise, since we perceive the nipple as upside down. This presents a good opportunity to point out a common point of confusion: looking from the outside of the rim you will turn the nipple clockwise to tighten and counterclockwise to loosen. A wheel in a truing stand, being adjusted by a spoke wrench This is done using a spoke wrench - see Spoke Wrench Selection for more information. We increase or decrease tension by turning the nipple, or the nut of the spoke system. Depending how your bike is set up, you may need to get creative with your indicator placement. These can be moved in and out or up and down to show deviations as the wheel spins in the frame. If you are truing in the bike, you can make an indicator by attaching something to the frame like a zip tie. A truing stand has built-in indicator fingers that can be adjusted in and out or up and down from the rim to easily identify these deviations. We need a stationary indicator that will help find lateral and radial deviations. Put the bike in a repair stand or turn it upside down. The bike should be positioned so the wheel is able to spin freely. If you don’t have a truing stand, you can use the bike to hold the wheel. ![]() Truing stands help isolate truing problems and allow for easier and faster work when truing. A Way To Fixture The Wheelįirst, we need to hold the wheel steady as it spins. This article will cover the first two aspects - lateral and radial trueness. Radial truing is adjusting spoke tension to correct issues of roundness. The wheel’s roundness, or amount of up and down movement as it spins, is its radial trueness. When truing wheels, generally begin first by correcting the lateral trueness. Lateral truing is the correction of side-to-side wobbles, or lateral deviations, as the wheel spins This aspect is the most critical for bicycles with rim brakes. With the right tools, and experience, a thorough wheel truing will produce a durable and strong wheel. A professional mechanic is able to adjust spoke tension so that each aspect is optimal. The first two are covered in this article. ![]() There are four basic aspects of wheel truing. Wheel truing is the process of using a spoke wrench to change the tension of spokes to improve the straightness and roundness, or trueness, of the wheel. Spokes pull the rim from both the right and left side. The bicycle wheel is a hoop, or rim, with a set of spokes that connect it to a hub. Truing stand, or other method of fixturing the wheel and tracking deviations.I have found a few possible options on the Internet (please see below) but these are in Italy, not in the UK. The stand also allows me to quickly spin through the gears to check all is ok. I have also discovered that you can’t spin the cranks backwards on my Levo like you can with an analogue bike to lube the chain so this is now a painful task for me as I am so used to using the above method for this. This stand is unfortunately not an option for the Levo as the Levo does not have hollowtech ? All of my analogue bikes having hollowtech cranks so I use an ‘Andystand’ for this purpose. One thing that came to mind was the stand I have for lifting the rear wheel of my bike for washing and lubing the chain on my analogue bikes. ![]() Thank you very very much ccrdave for selling me your excellent condition Turbo Levo which I picked up on Wednesday evening.ĭuring the ebike pick up process I realised that there are things I now need to start thinking about that are ‘ebike’ specific. It’s official, I have taken the plunge and purchased an ebike ?.
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