Minor truing is easy; just do things slowly by making quarter turns. I've been fortunate over the last several years in having my wheels all built by *good* builders; they hardly ever go out of true. But other wheels require a bit of tweaking over the first few hundred miles, but this is easy by careful identification of out-of-true areas, and careful, slow adjustment. Easier than tweaking bent brake rotors!
I just use my thumb as a truing guide - hand grasping seatstay. I have built just 1 wheel myself, and that was the platonic ideal of a wheel: 36 spokes, no dish. I followed Sheldon's instructions, using no stand but placing the newly built and tensioned wheel in the frame and using my left thumb, hand gripping the seatstay, to finish truing. The wheel was apparently bulletproof, since it needed to adjustment in the several thousand miles I put on it. On Sat, Oct 6, 2018 at 9:28 AM Lum Gim Fong <[email protected]> wrote: > Was wondering if this is easy to do for a first timer, or could I mess up > the spoke tension and cause big probs. > > Of course, safety is my first concern. I don't want to mess up the wheel > and cause a safety issue. > > But it is a skill I would like to have so I don't have to run to the LBS > over something that may be simple to do myself. > > Books make it seem simple. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Resumes, LinkedIn profiles, bios, and letters that get interviews. By-the-hour resume and LinkedIn coaching. Other professional writing services. http://www.resumespecialties.com/ Patrick Moore Alburquerque, New Mexico, Etats Unis d'Amerique ************************************************************************** ************** *Auditis an me ludit amabilis insania?* -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
