The truing doesn't start until 16:00. You're welcome. Women must love this guy. He's all about foreplay.

@17imarks

6 жыл бұрын

he talks too much lol.

@JuanGonzalez-st8tk

5 жыл бұрын

Good to learn

@daniellim5137

5 жыл бұрын

The GSP of cycling

@johnhanek167

5 жыл бұрын

Sure they do. And it's a good bet you don't get any!

@jonestizmo1872

5 жыл бұрын

Exactly. I was bored. Too much talks.

I for one appreciate your level of detail and relative verbosity in this video. Thank you!

You got yourself a new subscriber. Nice explanation, really detailed and still understandable.

That is the best video I have seen on truing really has given me confidence to try it for myself. 5 stars mate.

@theresamariepitts6699

7 жыл бұрын

Alec Pym pomp R7

@manuelluis5456

6 жыл бұрын

Alec Pym 1 milimiter isn't worth the worry.

I did whine about the first minute, but the amount of times you said "nipples" during the video made it TOTALLY worth it :D haha

Thanks explaining in such detail all the nuances of truing a rim.

Thank you so much for this important info and video, now I can do this myself. This was very helpful.

Great video,you gave me confidence to do it,I can do anything to my bike but never tried truing wheels.

Great tutorial on wheel truing. Learned a lot. Thanks!!

Great video, thanks! Minute 26 summarizes very clearly the basics of spoke tension.

Good explanation. It always comes down to the details. Patience is the key to achieving good results.

Thank you for taking the time to explain. I really appreciate it!

Thank you so very much finally some one explained in detail how and what the process of trueing a wheel is and what I need to do and the process behind it thank u .I can't believe that it was as simple as when I tightened one side of the tire it made a sort of butterfly effect to the other side and how I could fix the rim hop .ur doing great keep up the great videos ur very helpful

Fantastic video. I especially appreciate your prelude on wheel construction and its mechanics. You are an excellent teacher.

@cannondany

7 жыл бұрын

Thank you, here's the full bike maintenance video: kzread.info/dash/bejne/gWeh3LKKntzff7g.html

Thank you for the taking time to make the video. I'm going to give it a try as both my wheels are slightly out.

@cannondany

7 жыл бұрын

Then you have a great pair of wheels for learning how to true them :)

Great video champ. Comprehensive. Sure, not without problems, but the content easily makes up for it. Thanks for uploading.

I also true my own wheels and I think that your explanation was thorough in describing the challenges one may encounter depending on the type of deviations encountered. The use of tape to detect spoke rotation and bending spoke pairs to release tension are very good tips.

Very good information, well-explained. I enjoyed learning about the “acoustic test” for truing.

Love the detailed explanations in all your videos! Keep it up!

@cannondany

8 жыл бұрын

+Tan Ken Seong Thank you!

Just watched this video again, in preparation for my first attempt at truing my rear wheel. Just waiting for the right size nipple wrench to arrive.I must give you some praise on your level of detailed information and reflection on their importance.A bike is after all a dynamic piece of kit, with many components affecting the performance of each other. I keep reminding myself of this whenever i am about to to a quick cleaning or tuneup. At first you think it will take just 10 minutes, and then 1,5 hours later you end up having done 2-3 other parts in realtion to the first.... call it OCD, call it an "inner perfectionist" whatever.... Best to do things properly. PS: When asking your viewer to listen for something, perhaps you should skip the background music, and a few sound dampening panels on the walls and ceiling would do wonders to remove the echo and reverb overlaying your voice all the time.

Spokes spinning is only a problem with straight pull spokes. With J bends they'll twist. Greasing the spoke nipples will actually reduce the twisting because it will allow the nipple to thread on/off as it should, instead of twisting the spoke. Marking the spokes, either with labels, or with a pen can be a good indication as well. As far as releasing tension goes. I suggest squeezing parallel sets of spokes _hard_, rather than just flexing them a little bit. It really shouldn't be necessary to retrue a wheel after you've rode it if it was done properly.

Thank you for the tutorial sir. Very well explained.

watched the whole 27 minute video. very helpful. thank you so much!!! i'm gonna rewatch this again when i get my tool.

Thanks for sharing. I got some good tips from the video.

Such an informative video. Thanks!

Hi cannondany! Great all-around video, if I was to make one, it would be like this. BUT, as I have already mastered the "dark science" of wheel-building and truing to an acceptable level, I have some suggestions/questions and would like to share and hear your opinion on them: - Wouldn't you agree that it is better to use 4-sided spoke wrench, especially with the aluminum nipples? I started learning that wheel thing with the same cheap spoke-key as you recommended in the video and I agree it is a good one for a start. After a while it rounded-off some aluminum nipples so I got myself a 4-sided wrench. Never had that problem again. - About bladed spokes and holding onto them to prevent twisting - in my experience, bladed spokes are maybe easier to work with than a round spokes when it comes to putting high tension and re-truing wheels with a bit seized nipples, as you can use the specific slotted tool. Round spokes do tend to twist too, wouldn't you agree? It's just not noticeable, not that much, but it can make menace in the final truing stage. I imagine you must know what I'm talking about. I like to use vice grips to hold the spoke fixed a few centimeters from the nipple (carefully to avoid damaging the spoke) and then use the spoke wrench to do the job. What are your thoughts on that, is it a good practice? Cheers and keep up with the great videos!

Thanks for the good info . Cheers !!

Very thorough. Excellent.

Your explanation was great. Nevertheless, the contrast between the background and the rim did not let to perceive very well. Amazing your experience without special and costly tools. Very useful! 👍🏾

great video man! Thanks

Thanks, this video was really useful to me. Not trying to reinvent the wheel ;-) I feel better informed now on how this works in practice.

excellent tutorial!!

Thanks for the instruction,i have new bike where front wheel wobbles,have not ridden it yet,will adjust the spokes first,Thanks.

Very in depth video thanks

Thanks, very helpful!!

Good video. Nice man cave. If that's your living room I'm telling my wife we're pulling our modern art down and I'm hanging my bike over the fire place. "Honey, it's how they do it in Poland." ;-)

@jackt406

7 жыл бұрын

Jeff Roberts The bike is a kinetic sculpture anyway, certainly a work of art.

love this channel

Tightening up loose spokes on a 1970 bike, some were stuck, I found ATF trans fluid and then use a propane torch heat up the nipple works well. Then use screwdriver and hold round spoke with a vice grip plier, they all came loose and was able to be tightened. Wheels are chromed steel and were straight although rusty looking, spokes were not rusty looking. I set spokes to have a similar tone when plucked.

This helped me a lot cuz I was clueless. Thanks for the upload.

@cannondany

7 жыл бұрын

Happy to hear that!

Hi, really useful video - thanks. Does it matter how much tension there is on each spoke? Should you be trying to get each spoke evenly tensioned?

Nice to see rules of thumb with easily available equipment. Alternative to wheel truing machine is great>

Thanks great video

Great instruction

very good mate

Thanks Danny !

Excellent tip about the garbage bike lights!!

Thanks for sharing

Nice video and presentation. Yes, in most case tire can stay on the rim for wheel truing. But is better with tire off when truing eccentric error.

"Someone was trying to play with those nipples without oiling them" --SickBiker 2016

@LauriAP

7 жыл бұрын

I over-tightened 2 nipples and damaged them. I didn't use any oil. It is possible to manage without oil, but you have know not to overtighten spokes. I lost 1 spoke and 3 nipples and bought new spoke key. My old spoke key is one size too big to make it easier to remove the key after tightening. Truing the wheel is probably the expert-level maintenance operation and practice is needed. Nice thing that when you learn it, you can buy cheap spokes and install them and true them your self quite fast. I was taught by a french mechanic at TRE-cycle with a truing stand. Nowadays I just use wheels and brakes to see where the rim is bent, just like the man in video. I think the video is a bit anxious, but as operation is difficult you made the point clear. Maybe so pedagogic perspective is good development. ;)

@calebmcnevin

5 жыл бұрын

"...cause if you don't know that it's really well made, you may be damaging your nipples; I'm gonna show that in a minute" --SickBiker 2016

Excellent explanation thank you. I watched at 1.25x speed and it was perfectly informative. :D

Great video

Great info, thanks. Related to truing, I have seen spokes of fellow riders just blow out on smooth roads, I'm guessing they were over tightened. How tight should the spokes be all around? i.e. how much torque is too much?

Rebuilding a wheel is easy, you already know the spoke sizes. I tend to hold the axle and spin it, then when it's getting close to true stick it in the frame and finish truing it. I also pluck the spokes and listen to the note they make as a basic test for tension.

Great! Thank you.

EPIC....!!!!!! I learned two things I've been doing wrong since I had a lil dinosaur for a yard dog (which btw could kick a pit bulls ass pronto). Great vid thank you very much. I'm now subscribed fan.

Your video was extremely helpful with my ksyrium elite wheels. One question: how concerned should I be about one side of the wheels spokes have less tension than the other? How to get consistent tension on both sides and the wheel true?

thank you very much!!!

it was a very good explanation, but how do you know if the tension is already too high or too low? what should the tension be? I think this deserves to be mentioned when discussing trueing, especially since truing an axial shift, may impart a radial shift.

I would like to buy the PRO spoke wrench in the US... I can not find it listed anywhere...

just constructive criticism since you asked for it. I loved the video, but the fish eye is a bit extreme.

@trexmidnite

4 жыл бұрын

Bit extreme?.. its outright stupid

I don't know but every time you touched the rim the rim moved sideways. Did you check to see if the bearings were loose or worn on the hub?

Dimondback spoke wrenches are fairly good. A set of 3 for affordable price.

Good video

Que genial tu soporte para mantenimiento de bicicleta. Lo hiciste tú. Si lo compraste dime el costo y la marca de dicho soporte. Gracias

Wit regard to Hub and rim, can we use a 24 holes hub on a 28 or 32 holes Rim ? Will it make the wheel strong and make it to last long ?

Do you ever use a spoke tensionometer to true a wheel as this looks like a useful guide to when spokes are too loose or tight?

if your using go pro and other cam... try checking the settings search for the flat... i dont know where it is but i can tell from the video, the camera seems to make it convex, you know in a round mirror to make the view wider 1:19 check the bike stand it is rounded because of that... you can make the 4k but better make it flat when pointing instructions... unless you want other people to view a scenery convex settings or so is very good in action movement

no mention of the spoke tension overall being too high or too low? Do I need an expensive tension meter, or is there a way to figure out maximum safe tension of the spokes before they start breaking? Also what are the types of spoke failures? how will the spoke damage look like when its caused by a too high tension and a too low tension?

inloosen all my spokes and try this method i messed up but its a good practice i will try it again hope to tru my will perfectly

@cannondany

7 жыл бұрын

Yes, practice with it :)

After truing my wheel I take test-drive and I hear a nice plong-pling-plong-pling-sound when spokes adjust at start. I know the rim is a bit mis-aligned after this, but as long as it runs quiet with rim-brake I am happy.

Although I can't fully understand what you say , but I can guess most of the part，thank you very much , you're a good technician

@cannondany

8 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

what spoke wrench should i get; the park tool .130? i have range of bike road, commuter, mountain bike, old 70's fuji allegro. mavic rims?

how you will true it on up and down on bike?

I want this guy trying MY wheels!

i find truing a wheel much easier and faster by taking of the rim tape and using a flat head screwdriver to true. granted your spoke length will determine how far you can true if you need to tension spokes alot, but found it much better.

@Iowahurler82

5 жыл бұрын

A brief touch with a cut off wheel on a grinder can take care of that issue as well.

Should all the spokes ring at the same or very similar pitch when you tap them? My the pitch of my spokes vary quite a bit. Would getting them to all be very close in pitch be a good starting point?

Hence the reason I ride wheels with minimum 28-32 spokes, so I can actually use the reflectors w/o the wheels going out of true (Also I weigh 97 kilos).

keep it up

this video quality is good

What to do when source of the wobbly wheel is in the hub and you are trying and trying to true the wheel but you cannot do it ?

There is a very interesting video which explains very convincingly that 4K is no better than 1080p. I will try to find it again for you.

good video :D

We can? We can chew the wheel with the tire on?

I enjoyed many humorous comments.

I am presently in south America. I have never seen that stand to hoist the bike. I have to check an online store to buy one. what is the name for such a stand to locate them easily in stores?

what about radial truing? was it ignored?

Can you make a video on truing an out of round wheel? What would you consider acceptable in an out of round amount.

@larrydaniels6532

2 жыл бұрын

0.5 mm

Great video, extremely valuable and useful demonstration, thank you! I personally found the music to be distracting/unnecessary...I don't mean to be rude, just giving some feedback on an otherwise outstanding instruction.

what if the nipple is really stuck? can i use some wd40 or it will mess with the innertube?

You got a typo on the video topic pal :)

Thank you for the video. If the rear wheel is out of true, how would I ensure that the rim is right in the center so I can begin to true it?

@MarkoVojvodic84

2 жыл бұрын

You can begin truing it before you center it. You can center it at the end, by evenly releasing and adding tension to the opposite spokes, depending on which side you want to go.

@larrydaniels6532

2 жыл бұрын

@@MarkoVojvodic84 Not a preferred method, it is never a good idea to over tension any spoke! To ensure proper dish in a rear wheel, one can reverse the wheel in the drop outs, then you can measure the maximum deviation of the rim in relation to the distance from seat stay, for both ways the wheel fits in the drop outs, normal- cogs on chain side and reverse- cogs on non chain side. Once you master this, you will never need a wheel dishing tool (totally unnecessary). This is a very simple version of trigonometry. It is the first thing I do when I put a wheel (front or rear) on my truing stand. This way you are starting from the starting point, it tells you from the start if you need to relieve tension or apply tension to specific spokes, because you can assess the out of true conditions and out of round conditions and develop a game plan. I've seen more than my share of bike mechanics tightening already over-tight spokes and not having a clue as to knowing how to properly true wheels.

If you want to edit 4k you'll need to use proxy files which aren't too hard to set up and use if your editing in premiere pro

can i just tighten the spokes without loosening others, I ride bmx and i would really hate to have any spokes loose

Any tips on getting the rim trued radially getting the rim round

@larrydaniels6532

2 жыл бұрын

It is by far the most important aspect of wheel building, a round wheel does not have to lift the center of gravity of the rider and bike each rotation (that is exactly what an out-of-round wheel does. It lifts and then drops the center of gravity with each rotation of the wheel). A really good wheel -truing stand is essential for best results. Then you can do your best, a round wheel is a thing of beauty.

U have great way to tutor bike fixing skills Thanks a million!

I suggest that you create chapter title time keys in the body of your description so that the viewer doesn't waste time on information that they know or don't care about, like what tools to use or how you tried to tape in 4K. This way the viewer can go directly to the area they are interested in.

My rim is slightly bent in the front and rear of my MTB, can I true it to fix it or do I have to bend it back first?

@eusuntaici

4 жыл бұрын

It depends how badly it is bent. The most extreme I had to do was to completely remove the rim and stand on its sides while the middle was on a 2/4 on the ground, checking from time to time against a very straight surface (like a door for example) until the lateral bend was solved. Then re-lace a.s.o...

@larrydaniels6532

2 жыл бұрын

If a certain extreme force puts a bend in a rim, then spokes can never get that bend out. It must have a force administered to the rim to negate that damaging force, loosen spokes in the affected area, apply just enough force, wood block and mallet to correct the issue. If you get lucky it will work.

Which part of the tire/rim/wheel/spoke were you hitting for the acoustic tuning?

@blueplasma5589

5 жыл бұрын

spokes with his little wrench.

Now you need to true your camera.

@user-yg6dk9eh8g

7 жыл бұрын

Robert Tomkinson what the hell is wrong with you?if you don't like ,don't watch it,liberal, WOOF

@djboostin20

7 жыл бұрын

+Robert Tomkinson I'd like to true your face.

@whaaaaatyyyy

6 жыл бұрын

Robert Tomkinson haha

@badline8621

6 жыл бұрын

how do politics even apply to this?

@h82fail

6 жыл бұрын

Lol yeah, from camera view it looks like the wheel is dished to the left but he says its to the right.

Hi. Great comprehensive guide! In my case I could use a little more information about radial tuning. I have a "pit" in my wheel. As you mention the spokes can not be adjusted to push the rim out to correct it. Is there anything else that can be done?

@h82fail

8 жыл бұрын

If only over a couple spokes and can't be fixed with lower spoke tension, could be a flattened/bent spot from a impact. Nothing will fix except a new rim.

@larrydaniels6532

2 жыл бұрын

Back in the day, we would repair these "flat spots" with three pieces of wood, two on the ground- rest the flat spot in between these pieces so that the flat spot is off the ground( you have already taken the spokes out from this area of the rim) with another piece of wood and a mallet you strike with just enough force to put the roundness back into the former flat spot. Very keen sense of touch is needed to do this right.