Or, if you are lazy, you can use your off-hand thumb: grip the stay
adjacent to the rim wall as you turn the wheel and wrench the spokes with
the dominant hand. I built my first and only wheel using bike frame and
thumb, and I've trued innumerable others this way.
Oh, and you can also use a hammer and nail for removing and installing
chains ...
On Sun, Jan 17, 2016 at 9:42 PM, iamkeith wrote:
> For the final, precision truing, you can essentially turn your frame into
> a truing stand by attaching a pair of zip ties to the stays, directly
> opposite the rim. Trim the extra strip so that they are just slightly
> longer than needed to touch the rim, and then rotate and slide them until
> they don't quite touch but are as >close< as possible. Just like with a
> real truing stand, they will rub a spinning wheel to indicate any wobble,
> high spots, or out-of-round spots. The dish part is done by eyeball, by
> looking for equidistant space on either side of the tire between the
> forward part of the chainstays. Or you can use a rule of some sort. That
> part isn't as precise as using a dish tool, but it actually gives better
> results anyway because sometimes bikes aren't built perfectly symmetrical
> anyway.
>
> I think I have some ties attached to a frame somewhere. I can take a
> snapshot in the daylight tomorrow, if you need.
>
> On Sunday, January 17, 2016 at 5:31:49 PM UTC-7, Joe Bernard wrote:
>>
>> What is "the zip-tie method" ?
>
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