2026-09-23 01:12 UTC
I think the severity of the bend is minor enough if this was a cheap bike or a mountain bike you would just bend it back, but this is my daily commuter and I don’t want to take my chances with dodgy tensioning #BikeTooter
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@enobacon@urbanists.social 2026-09-23 04:51
@cinebox@masto.hackers.town if there is a sharp "bend" in the rim, no amount of tuning the spokes will ever make it right again (especially with rim brakes, if it is near the brake track.) Aluminum also weakens with any inelastic ("plastic") deformation, forming cracks (which then can enlarge to the point of failure through elastic cyclic loading.) If it's just warped out of true, some spokes are loose, you may be able to tune that... were you going to a bike shop to have that done / get told to buy a new wheel?