How to True a Wheel Part 2: Lateral Truing

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Wheel truing is always pain in the ass for people without patient like me. I tried once on my own when I was a kid, end up making it much worse and bought another wheel after instead.

Bicycle wheels are important eh¿ 🤔

Thanks!

if the tyre doesnt rub the frame its true enough🤣

Can't believe how easy this was. I thought that I will need the tension meter and the calculator to get it properly straight but nope, the technique of squeezing them with the hand and observing the wheel's reaction was enough to get my wheel almost perfectly straight(~0.5mm wobble) in ~3 minutes.

After truing my method of detensioning is lay the wheel flat on a work surface, it is out of the bike anyway. Press the axle into the work surface using down force on the rim. Go all the way around, flip the wheel and do on the other side. Repeat again and recheck the rim for trueness.

I assume you can make a decision and maybe that's wrong

that was awesome...

Thanks so much for this video i finally managed to tru my wheel you explained the squeezing the spock's to see the direction the wheel moves suddenly it makes sense thankyou have not seen anyone say this before

Excellent video. And now to invest in a truing stand...

I fixed my bike again today thanks to those great videos, thanks!

Btw, this is by far the best marketing you could have come up with. Never heared about park took before I tried fixing my bike. Now I own several tools. Not a truing stand, that would be overkill, but the channel doesn't even try to force you to buy (their) specific tools.

I usually actively try to not buy products I've seen in ads. Why? Because ads do not provide me with any value, but I'm paying for them, if I buy those products. I usually tend to only buy no name products and/or word by mouth and/or own experiences.

This is an exception, it may serve the company as advertisement, and I'm financing them as well, if I buy park tools. However unlike ads, this gives me value. And I'm happy to pay for stuff, that provides me value!

Thanks, brilliant & helpful 😊

Thanks you park tools love you tools!

I tried it and had no progress what so ever I turned the nipple who knows how many times in both directions with no improvement. When I spin the rear wheel on my bike it wobbles together with the cassette and a brake disc. Is this normal when spokes are loose or there is another problem attached to it?

I didn’t see it get trued , it still had a huge bias…..RUBBISH …..PARK ADVERTISING

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USE YOUR BRAKE BLOCKS

Awesome video. I'm building a wheel now with your videos. Spent a lot of time on it. I've got my wheel very close. Still some small deviations. Gonna check with the paper how bad. I noticed that as you close in on overall tension measuring with the TM-1, perfect truing becomes hard to obtain. If I correct minor deviations, my consistency of overall spoke tensions starts to worsen fast. Thinking overall even tension might be a hair more important and live with a few minor deviations.

What are lateral turning and radial turning ??

I was trying to true an old chrome rim today with a loose sturmey archer rear hub. I could feel my hair falling out as I faffed around with it for hours... sigh

I've been lacing and truing wheels long before this was produced, but I'm brushing up on my knowledge, and am so glad to see how far instructional videos have come. This video is so well produced, it's a beauty to behold

So tha means my wheel gets scratched

Thank you bro it helped a lot ☺️

Great video - the ziptie works great!

Class act of Park tool to provide this education for free! Thanks guys!

Not being able to afford a Park truing stand, and true enough (pardon the pun) it's one of only a very few worth buying, I rigged up a stand out of an old turbo trainer stand and a pair of calipers for basically zero bucks. It doesn't do centering but for basic building & maintenance it's OK. Being made of steel, you can even attach a micrometer with a magnetic base for even more accurate work. 

Just strip off all of the attachments & use it to hold the wheel. In some cases, the friction wheels can be used as a guide.

There's a lot of fancy looking, or cheaper Chinese stands on the market but, as usual, it seems that they let themselves down with the materials they choose. You can also make up a good enough dishing too out of scrap wood, or whatever.

Great video! After hammering a 90's era mountain bike on our local trails for some retro perspective, the wheels got badly banged out of shape. Was able to get them back to <1mm true after watching this tutorial - thank you!

I can't wait to buy a true stand and practice truing on old wheels, thanks a lot for this great tutorial video.

Great video.

2 comments:
Lateral truing can influence radial trueness. I understand you want to keep things separated, but they are intertwined.
Riding is quite a frustrating way of destressing, as you have to mount a tire / cassette / wheel. It's much easier to either pull the spokes with your hands, or take the wheel out of the truing stand and push at all sides. Also, push the rim while the wheel is on one side of the hub. This will truly destress the wheel, and after destressing, you always need some truing.

Is there something like a rule for switching the indicator finger? The left indicator finger touches, you tighten some spokes on the right side of the hub. Then you focus on the right indicator finger, tightening some spokes on the left side of the hub..... Why switching the indicator finger at all? Why even using just one indicator finger?
Thank you

Hello and thank you for the great instructional video !
I would like to ask a quick question - many people have told me that while truing we need to always tighten on one side and at the same time un-tighten on the opposite side.
What would be the correct way ?
Thank you again

Top video, so well produced and presented, thank you.:)

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You R a true professional you know exactly what your talking about continue to keep the cyclist world informed, thank U !

Your videos are really, really good. Wow, thank you!

The best videos about wheelbuilding.

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I cant tell if hes tightening the inside or outside spoke. Like if the wheel is wobbling to the left do i tighting the right side or left side spokes? Or just the closest spoke to the deviation

The only thing I disagree with. IS RIDING THE WHEEL TO GET THOSE PINGS AND POPS AND UNWINDS.

The consensus for most experts is. You want to do this on the truing station. Because those pinks and pops can make the wheel go out of true again because the tension is changing.

You're supposed to pull all the spokes somehow and get those pinging and popping out of the wheel before it goes on the bike. Then you recheck the truing again with the .05 mm of paper or feeler gauge to make sure it did not go out of true.

It would really stink if you did all that work You took it for a ride and realized it's now out of tolerance you have to take the tire off take the tube off and start over again 🤣

How to know if the problem is on the rim itself or to the spokes tension? If some part of the rim is not centered on the v-Break while biking?

I had the lateral almost perfect, when I then went and did the radial true, the lateral is now waaay off, and I cant get it back again. Did I bend the rim somehow? I have tried loosening the spokes all back to just a little tight, but lateral is still waaaay off, no matter what I do. Spokes are almost getting stripped from loosening and tightening so much.

Tru Man!!

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