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Balancing spoke tension and basic truing
This isn't a tutorial. It's just the "meaty" part of a build where I'm plucking spokes and using the tone to help decide which spokes to adjust to bring the wheel into true and balance spoke tension at the same time. . After this stage I get out the tensiometer and check/adjust both actual spoke tension values and dish.
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- Date Posted
- Apr 20, 2017 at 12:17Apr 20, 2017
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- Tips/HowTos
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Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States
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RunsWithScissors
(Apr 20, 2017 at 13:07)
No need. I've found that if the spokes are tensioned evenly from the very start there's usually very little vertical hop. It's just a small polishing at the very end usually. Depending on the rider and intended use of the wheel I'll even leave some hop. This rider happens to weigh in at about 285 lb. and the wheel will never see anything smaller than a 2.1 tire, so more than anything I'm concerned with getting the spoke tension spot on and as uniform as possible, especially since there's only 24 spokes in this wheel. Hop is the least of my concerns in this case.