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Relacing drive side spokes- best method?

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    Dan Daniel
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    Ok, thanks to people's responses to my question about bent drive side spokes, I am going to replace
    all the spokes on that side.

    Any recommendations on the best method of swapping out the spokes?

    My muddled thoughts lead me to doing the following:

    - relax tension on drive side spokes (slowly- work around the wheel a few times to undo the nipples,
    not undo one completely, then another, etc.)

    - relace drive side spokes

    - work around the wheel on the drive side spokes only to pull the wheel back to true with
    proper dishing

    - only after all of this will I touch the left side spokes for final truing and tensioning

    (the wheel is very true now)

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  2. S. Anderson
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    "Dan Daniel" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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    Quoted message said:

    Ok, thanks to people's responses to my question about bent drive side spokes, I am going to
    replace all the spokes on that side.

    Any recommendations on the best method of swapping out the spokes?

    My muddled thoughts lead me to doing the following:

    - relax tension on drive side spokes (slowly- work around the wheel a few times to undo the
    nipples, not undo one completely, then another, etc.)

    - relace drive side spokes

    - work around the wheel on the drive side spokes only to pull the wheel back to true with proper
    dishing

    - only after all of this will I touch the left side spokes for final truing and tensioning

    (the wheel is very true now)

    Well, I wouldn't do it that way personally. I'd just do them one at a time. Undo one, remove,
    replace, tighten it back up. Just my opinion.

    Cheers,

    Scott..

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