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Spent $38 on a used Park Tool wheel truing stand and it paid for itself in a month
I was lacing wheels on my kitchen table with zip ties and a bent spoke as a gauge, and my tension was all over the place. Dropped $38 on a beat up Park Tool stand from a guy in Denver and my wheels finally stopped going out of true after a couple rides. Any of you still truing by feel or is the stand just something everyone eventually breaks down and buys?
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taylorellis1mo ago
tension was all over the place" man that hits home. i built my first set on the floor of my garage using the frame as the stand and a old brake pad as the feeler. got them "true enough" and then went out and taco'd the rear on a curb drop two weeks later. my roommate at the time was a shop guy and he just laughed and handed me his stand. funny thing is the stand didn't fix my hands, i still over-tensioned for months until he showed me the squeeze test with two spokes. $38 is a steal though, those things are tanks.
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