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PSA: That customer comment about my wheel truing made me rethink everything
This guy comes in with a wobbly rear wheel, I true it up in like 10 minutes and hand it back, and he says 'did you even touch the spokes or just give it a look?' and I realized I'd been rushing truing jobs for months without actually stress-loading the wheel. Now I give every wheel a solid 30-second spin with weight on it before I call it done. Anyone else had a customer call out something that made you step back and change your method?
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drew_reed621mo ago
@stellanelson calling truing "just mechanics" is wild to me. How do you account for spoke tension equalization without feeling it out?
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Disagree with lindal13 a bit here - truing is mostly just mechanics and patience, not really art. If a wheel needs that 30 second load test to hold true, you probably didn't put enough tension on it to start with.
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lindal131mo ago
Yeah I actually read something the other day about how wheel truing is more art than science if you want it to LAST. That 30 second spin trick sounds smart, I bet a lot of us skip that part because we're in a hurry.
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