"Alex Rodriguez" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:In article <[email hidden]>, [email hidden] says...
Quoted message said:"I don't build wheels and I'm not
Quoted message said:going to." Could you explain this comment?
Sure. I do basic maintenance on my bike. I keep it clean -- especially
the
Quoted message said:Quoted message said:drivetrain. I keep it lubed where it needs to be. Mostly, I ride it ... and ride it and ride it
and ride it. But I have a job and a family.
What
Quoted message said:Quoted message said:time I have to devote to my bike I spend riding it. And if I have time
to
Quoted message said:Quoted message said:read a book, I have other books I'm WAY more interested in reading than
The
Quoted message said:Quoted message said:Bicycle Wheel. No slam intended. That's just the way it is.
If you don't have time to read the book, then you don't have the time to true your wheels either.
The reason being that if you don't do it
properly,
Quoted message said:you are just wasting your time. The time you spend learning how to do it properly will save you
much more time.Quoted message said:You said rough roads don't produce untrue wheels. WHAT? I know who you
are
Quoted message said:Quoted message said:and that you're THE expert and all, but do you really mean to tell me
that
Quoted message said:Quoted message said:riding high mileage on rough roads won't tend to cause a wheel to come
out
Quoted message said:Quoted message said:of true faster than riding on smooth roads? That defies logic and
reason.
Quoted message said:
Does not defy logic at all. Pretty straight forward. Your wheels will
only
Quoted message said:go out of true if you hit a hole big enough to damage the rim or if you
hit a
Quoted message said:hole and the impact causes the spokes to go completely slack. The slack
spoke
Quoted message said:will then slowly unscrew itself. Wheels built with too low a tension will do this, a well built
wheel will not. This is covered in the book.Quoted message said:As for what's wrong with my Minoura stand. First, I don't have it
anymore.
Quoted message said:Quoted message said:It arrived with a device that you could use to make sure the stand was properly aligned. It
wasn't. It couldn't be adjusted. I bought it on sale, so the catalog company wouldn't take it
back. I didn't figure the
way
Quoted message said:Quoted message said:to start getting a wheel true was to start with a device that was out of true itself.
That device is simply for centering purposes and is not necessary. You
could
Quoted message said:easily use the stand as it was just to check for wheel trueness. You
could
Quoted message said:then flip the wheel in the stand to make sure it was centered. This is
also
Quoted message said:covered in the book.
Quoted message said:I posted a simple question. I should have known better than to expect anyone in a newsgroup to be
able to give a simple answer. Sheeeesh ... y'all have WAY too much time on your hands.You got more than one answer, you just didn't like the answer you got.
Some
Quoted message said:people don't have a lot of time, that is why they want to make sure they
do
Quoted message said:things the right way the first time around. You too would have more bike
time
Quoted message said:and less time behind the truing stand if you read the book.
There's a difference between reading about something and actually doing it. The mind may comprehend,
but if the hands don't get it, you may as well have not read the book in the first place. I can read
how to drive an F1 car as fast as Michael Schumacher, but until I've actually spent time doing it,
its worthless knowledge.
Practice, practice, practice, grasshopper...
Mike