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Wheel Truing Tutorial

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  1. I hope the group finds this week's wheel truing tutorial useful. I
    tried to cover all the aspects of truing without running overtime. I'd
    love to hear what you think...

    http://bicycletutor.com/wheel-truing/

  2. yeah...coming here asking RBT for comment is off course useless and
    demeaning but aside from that.

    GARGLE FIRST. get some air in your lungs. breathe deep. rising falling
    rising falling

    does the Tutorial teach wheel truing. Not really. You speak, move your
    hands, saying turn the nipples on the right to bring rim right, turn 4
    (six six six but less with incerasing torque...)

    I live in an asylum. Occasionally bringing the bike out onto the
    "common area" for a rolling wheel true before heading out to DO
    SOMETHING.

    Other asylumites comment: "how does he do that, the bike shop...."
    "He's done that for years..."

    Ever try telling a rider, not a serious rider off course, the rear
    wheel is out an inch, the tire is wearing away...then tutorial turn
    tight right, loosen left, the rim goes, bend straightens?

    whaddya get? a glassy look. synaptic seizure. like when I say ERD
    ERD...

    Without a graphic following a "survival in the artic" monologue,
    graphic showing turns and rim movement singularly and symphonically,
    in brilliant color. A graphic pierceing the synaptic seizure, you wind
    up saying: this is a cat, this is a dog, and this is my mommy.
    "That's" whose listening and "that's" what you're telling "them." A
    reciprocal relationship.

    As it is, a "survival" op, best to simplify the message and forget the
    trimmings unless trimmings are meant to impress the Campy/carbon/
    glacier crowd of materialist excess. oooooo lookit the shiny wheel?

    Yeah, simply and explain turn right go right.... but there again a
    graphic upside and downside.

    INVEST IN THE SOFTWARE!

    excuse me I'm gonna throw up....

  3. HI KIDS!
    I'M AUTO DISSMARK (COSTUME-looks like?) AND I'M GONNA SHOW YOU HOW A
    BICYCLE WHEEL IS STRAIGHTENED
    First we need a bent bicycle wheel. KNOCKOUT REDHEAD BRINGS IN WHEEL.
    Auto holdsup straight wheel and bends it into a pretzel. Short 15
    second video of crazy kid jumping his bike, trashing the wheel. Kid
    wipes his face out on chip and tar.
    Auto, off course, has a room filled with wheels pre-tuned for each
    segment of this disaster

    Auto pulls out a 3' monkey wrench, walks over to a bent rim section 2'
    wide with proportional spokes and...
    graphics arrows move directionally as Auto torques, with handle
    direction graphics...
    followed by a cartoon of same (gotta repeat)

    and I'll leave it to yawl to finish...

  4. porque

    a must read:

    http://books.google.com/books?id=D9cGAAAAYAAJ&dq=vocational+school+instruction+manuals&source=gbs_summary_s&cad=0

  5. http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_b/002-5045544-5000040?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=CARTOON+COMPUTER+GRAPHICS&x=17&y=18

  6. BicycleTutor said:

    I hope the group finds this week's wheel truing tutorial useful. I
    tried to cover all the aspects of truing without running overtime. I'd
    love to hear what you think...

    http://bicycletutor.com/wheel-truing/

    I was aware of your website and threw a link in my blog. Great work,
    keep it up.

    Ron
    http://cozybeehive.blogspot.com

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