2026-09-23 05:00 UTC
@CatsofArrakis@mastodon.social @cinebox@masto.hackers.town a spare fork, or your bike (carefully) sat upside-down / in a work stand, can work as a truing stand. Use the brake pad or a pencil as your indicator, braced with your thumb and held still at the point where it touches. There might be something you could clamp onto a fork/stay for this. You can also tune by ear, plucking the spokes to listen for equal tension.
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@enobacon@urbanists.social 2026-09-23 05:09
@CatsofArrakis@mastodon.social @cinebox@masto.hackers.town that guide seems pretty okay, but if the wheel is coming out of true / was not properly pre-tensioned, you probably want to start by tightening every 3rd spoke 1/4 turn and go around 3 times (assuming you have the correct number of spokes not 32.) Be aware whether it is turning vs twisting, might need extra turning if it will twist back. Start at the valve stem and don't lose track of where you were in the sequence.
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@CatsofArrakis@mastodon.social 2026-09-23 07:23
@enobacon@urbanists.social @cinebox@masto.hackers.town Caveat: If it is out of true due to impact, uniform spoke tension may not help.