Wheel truing and spokes repalcement

[Madhavan P]

I want to do wheel truing and spokes replacement of my RR 5.0 by myself. I've seen many videos in youtube to do that. But I need to buy a tool to open the chain cassette and a spoke wrench to tighten the spokes.

 

Please guide me where can I get these tools. Also is it advisable to do such bike mechanics by myself. Please enlighten me regarding this.

 

Thanks

Madhavan

[Shankar Shastry]

If it is just minor truing of the wheel, you don't need anything apart from spoke key. Go check on flipkart for park tool spoke key. Be sure to either have a multi size spoke key or the correct size for your nipples. You can also do it with an adjustable wrench but its not recommended. Of course, take all this with a gran of salt as I am no expert on wheel truing.

I ordered this spoke key from ebay since I wasn't in a hurry and this seemed to be the cheapest. If it turns out to be half as nice as the park tool one, I will order a few of these to keep in my garage and saddle bags of all bikes.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/400485369522?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1439.l2649

Madhavan

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[puneeth rao]

Or u can go to a local bike shop n ask for a spoke key , it will cost u 40 rs. N has multiple sizes!!

[Sanath Kumar S D]

once Rohan said . . . . "Wheel truing is like brain surgery - simple in theory. Not as simple in practice."

Check this link . . .

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topicsearchin/bangalore-bikers/brain$20AND$20surgery/bangalore-bikers/XI8d20XymjQ

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[Shankar Shastry]

Thanks Puneeth for the tip. I went to RR cycles and bought two of the exact same spoke keys as in that ebay link for 45 INR each. Feeling stupid that I scoured the internet for something so easily available offline!

On Sun, Jul 7, 2013 at 6:26 PM, puneeth rao <puneet...@gmail.com> wrote:

Or u can go to a local bike shop n ask for a spoke key , it will cost u 40 rs. N has multiple sizes!!

[Shankar Shastry]

Although I am not an engineer or suchlike, over the years, I have tried, failed and succeeded at fixing many things including computers, musical instruments, electronic items and bikes. Of all these and many more, bikes are the easiest to fix and most difficult to screw up unless you are a dolt to begin with or so shit scared and invite misery wholeheartedly by treating the toolkit as your sworn enemy, If you do your research well and follow some basic thumb rules like not taking to a hammer all the time, bad threading of bolts, using the wrong tools, not measuring twice before cutting etc..

No offense meant but Rohan is just wrong on this one and I think we should stop taking the brain surgery part seriously..... Just because you "assume" it is NOT simple, it doesn't mean that we should assume that we will never be able to do it. I'm not against going to LBS in case of an emergency or for a service. But when you're 100kms away from home (and LBS), if you don't know the basics of how to fix your bike, you will have to cut short your ride and feel bad about it. Learn to fix the bike yourself and such things won't happen.

Also I'm sure LBS such as BOTS or anyone else would very much prefer you go to them for major issues than minor issues. Learn to fix the bike yourself. Let me see if I can spare some time to start sharing the knowledge I have acquired about bikes. I'll start a separate thread on that one when it happens.

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Shankar

[Opendro]

+1

It depends on the quantum of the truing one needs. If the wheels are just wavering sideways, it is a piece of cake for anyone. But if the axle is not centered inside the circle of the rim, that is going to be very difficult for someone not experienced.

I personally use brake pads as the guide to the perfect true - yes, we don't even need a truing stand for most of the cases we might face regularly.

[M S Sriram]

Truing a wheel is theoretically very easy, but it can go wrong at times...not saying that one must not try even, but some wheels can go out of circular roundness leading to jumps....so it takes hours and hours of practice to do a good job...!

[O p e n d r o]

Not circular is what I meant by the axle not being at the perfect centre. So, one a flat surface, the axle will not be riding at a flat horizontal level. It will rather create a sinusoidal wave. Fixing this will require skill and experience.

But it is very unlikely that we will end up in this non circular situation while trying to true just a sideways wavering of the rim. Two reasons for that: we would be tightening the spokes tension on both side in one concentrated place if we have to pull really tight at one arc and second it is almost impossible in alloy rims. If it was so easy, we would be fixing dipped rims easily with spoke tensions.