How the hell was this posted five years ago and I'm just now finding out about it? This should have been the pilot episode for its own season on NBC! It should have been shouted from the rooftops in every corner of the globe! Girlfriends/boyfriends should be sending cards saying thankyou for the return of their loved ones from the garage! The Presidential Medal of Freedom should be considered! Park Tool is a goddamned national treasure, some of your stuff may be a little pricey but I'm all in because of stuff like this! Keep it up!

I feel like every time I turn to youtube for bike repair insight I end up on a Park video of Calvin. Well done as always.

EXEPTIONAL Video, Great and fluent speaker, a very instructive and professional explanationTHANKS

@musamor75

7 жыл бұрын

Dan Arditi Couldn't agree more. This video IS exceptional! Thumbs up.

@ChristopherBrown101

7 жыл бұрын

Completely agree park and Al from mtbr have saved my bacon many times!!

Park Tool is serious about bike maintenance.. love it!

This is one of the most satisfying wheel related videos I have seen. Really great info and explanations for all facets of wheel checking, and it seems as if I'll be able to fix/build wheels with relative ease once I've had a few practice runs. Calvin rules.

I love the way you teach Calvin and your voice as well ! Thanks a lot ! It took me ages to understand wheel Tension and with this video, i feel like less stupid than before

This is brilliant, thank you so much! Splendid video to understand the use of both the tool and the WTA. So very detailed, yet easy to understand for the apt amateur to maintain wheels. The WTA not only simplifies the work with the TM-1, the analysis, documentational and archive functions are ingenious! Great tools, great service!

I got a tension meter years ago and didn't expect to use it except on the initial building, but it is so useful to go around a wheel and check before snapping spokes, before a big tour or after 4k miles or a few 100 after building a new set, the tools are very useful to know what's happening with a wheel.

Park Tool is the best for making these helpful videos, and also the helpful web "app" to achieve proper spoke tension.

Extremely high quality information and delivery. Thanks!

your mustache has its own parallel universe. love it

How do people dislike this? Great idea. Great for wheelbuilders. Let's be honest, the tool ain't cheap so this whole thing goes a long way to adding value to the process. Thanks.

@Durwood71

2 ай бұрын

Current price is $104. A bit steep for us weekend warriors.

Amazing tool, thank you so much ParkTool. I've use it for first time on by race bikes rear wheel. The spokes were creaking and loosed its tension. Its fanastic what the tool did to the wheel. Now with your tool i made the wheel like its just came out from the factory. Before i used only spoke wrench, testing the spokes with the fingers. As a result spokes were never perfect. But now they are fine tuned. Thank you!

Because of this video, I bought this tool. Park tools make very good tools. Now I understand more about wheels.

This is the best wheel tension video EVER!!!

I'm a newcomer to this aspect of bike maintenance. Thank you for creating products and the presentation of know-how to use them. With your good intentions, bicycling and the ownership/maintenance thereof are so much better appreciated.

@ChrisPowellMerleApAmber

2 жыл бұрын

Oh, let me add the elephant in the room - the wheel truing stand - now, also understood for what it brings to the process without really mentioning it. I see its importance: as a novice. I could have got caught up not recognizing an unsavable rim without being given a hint of the in-depth relationship between tension and causes of off-true.

This is.. amazing. Thank you all at Park so very much.

Congratulations, finally a clear and understandable video, where you can see and hear in an excellent way.

Top notch instruction by Park and Calvin

Thanks to the team Park tool. Please make a video on wheel building for a completely new 27.5/700c wheel, how can I choose the right hub for my wheel rim? How can I choose spoke length? This kind of video will be very helpful for us. Please. Thanks again.

The way this guy explains thing is so helpful. Great job man

Dadgum, that was an amazing video. High quality content, thank you.

Extremely helpful! Amazing how our local shops are oblivious to proper when truing and tensioning skills. Thanks!

@death2pc

5 жыл бұрын

New Age Kenn........... Are they? Hazard how wheels I have, built before the advent of New Age tensionometers et al. are STILL fully operational, never a broken spoke, most with over 50,000 miles.

@MB-jz3uu

2 жыл бұрын

@@death2pc I think experience varies a lot. Clearly if your are a really good builder ur going to build a lot of muscle memory with the tension of spokes.

this is one of the most informative videos on fixing wheel spoke issues ive ever watched! i should watch more park tool videos..

@LauriAP

6 жыл бұрын

I saw bike-polo team use park tool bike repair stand. The gripping part is essential to keep good grip.

I bought this tool only because this nice tutorial video. A nice tutorial make to us easier to understand how to use a tool and avoid a lot of headache! Thanks!

Great video. I'm doing this now. I had an absolute perfectly true and dished wheel but had a few outliers on tension. When I adjusted tension it changed the true a lot. Starting to get a better understanding of how they all play in to each other.

@KarlosEPM

11 ай бұрын

Look at 15:15 . If the rim/hoop is bent, it is unlikely that you will achieve both a true wheel and tight tension tolerances. To prevent this, the spokes must have ideal tension from the start... but this is seldom the case with generic branded wheels. Upon realizing this, I am in the process of teaching myself how to build wheels. It might be worth it considering how I ride 😅

I've learned SO much on this channel! Thank you for the education!!

Just purchased a TM-1, very glad I found this youtube video. The online Park Tools URL app is an excellent free resource, customers can hold bike shops to accountability. This is a simple java script, there's alot of s/w that can d/l this script, then you can convert it into android through an app porting utility. If you're working on the same rim all the time, perform the spec once, print it out and just use excel with a simple multiplication formula. I'll be fabricating my own truing stand with dial gauges instead of eyeballing the gap with typical store bought units. If Park's TS2.2 was at least 35% cheaper I'd buy it, however my higher precision DYI stand will be under $150 all in (3 dial gauges, angle steel, hardware, 2 hrs labor).

Brilliant video, thank you.

Very helpful video and app! Thanks for the explanations.

Keep up the great instructional videos! It is appreciated! Best Regards!

wow. Calvin, this is an excellent video. i am motivated to learn how to build wheels now. all i need is money for the tools ! for now, it's a spoke wrench, a wish, and a prayer every time i true a wheel. i do a pay what you can neighbourhood bike mechanic thing. i even wash every bike before i return it to the customer and do full tuneups, even if they just need a new tube. i get parts at cost from my local shop and pass the savings along ! I love bikes and my neighbourhood!

You guys are amazing!

Thanks Calvin, youre a bicycle scientist.

This is absolutely amazing and also insane at the same time!

I am not even building or fixing my rims but I watched the entire video.

Thank you so much for this video, app, tool and nice presentation.Thank you Calvin.

Fantastic video, thanks for sharing!

After you guys set your brain buckets down for the day, I'd like buy you all a round of beers. Great product line. Keep 'em coming!

You guys make a very good Video. Thanks

Great insight thanks. However I would like an example where spokes crosses each other, we always get these demos with almost no overlap between spokes. In my experience measuring spoke tension gets way more complicated when spokes overlaps/touches each other

The best teacher ever!

Thank you so much, very appreciated video. As always Park Tool is the best.

a five star video, imo.

Park Tool it's exceptional as always

Loved the vid. Very well done.

somehow i missed this video... very informative thanks Park Tool

You are professional bike maintainer :) spoke tension metering and computer aided problem solving. I am a poor man, I just grip spokes to feel with hand. You have a point in truing a bent rim that it is not lasting true long. Maybe a poor man has to true it many times to save a wheel, i hope.

Outstanding work!

Awesome app! Thanks for sharing.

Fascinating Tutorial. This sort of app really brings cycle mechanics to the 21st century.

@ChuckD59

6 жыл бұрын

I think a Bluetooth connected tensiometer would bring it into the 21st century. Typing is so 20th century.

@Hertog_von_Berkshire

6 жыл бұрын

If you were listening carefully just now, you would have heard me shouting "BLUETOOTH" from 7:30 onwards. The challenge would be to get the gadget to know which spoke it was on.

Thanks a lot for speaking at moderate speed :)

A cheap and easy way to do the same, is to bang the spoke lightly with a metal tool, and then listen! If the tension is the same for all spokes, and the wheel is correctly sat up with no going up and down, or to the side - it will give the same sound.

thank you park tools

Outstanding video. Very good tool.

A big thank you!

Trust the mustache, my friends. Trust the mustache.

Very useful video and explanation. Nice to see this kind of videos. Congrats ;)

a bit simplistic. As soon as you adjust a spoke's tension it affects the tensions of multiple spokes; those spokes adjacent to it and also opposite it. Also, I've found with that tool, that you have to jiggle it to get an accurate reading. Jiggle it a bit till the reading is stable. Sometimes the reading doesn't change much, sometimes it changes a fair bit. This should be obvious if you think about it. Once you think you've finished tensioning the wheel, measure all the spokes again - you'll get a surprise 😄. The bad news; there's more work involved. The good news; the amount of adjusting needed does diminish. This is why I do my own work.

this is so good thank you park tool, please make an IOS app for this so we don't need to bring a laptop or use a web based tool

AND HERE I SPENT MY LIFE JUST TIGHTENING THEM BY HAND WITH NO PROBLEMS

Long live this app!

Great video. But in terms of mm., what is the limit of acceptable out of round for a 26 in. wheel?

Exellent Tool and and excellent demonstration

Thanks ParkTool!! ;-)

My head hurts... Will there be a test on this? Excellent video, nonetheless. Thanks.

Sehr gut und hilfreich, regards from germany

Excellent tutorial!

Very informative. KZread can be an awesome tool if you know what to look for.

thanks a lot, I like, learn how to do by your Video, it very helpful ! ขอบคุณครับ

great explanation! You are a professional 🙂

I want to ask that even in rim brake the tension would be the same right and left side or the right should have more tension tnx more power to you

Awesome so well explained!

So usefull video. Thank you very much.

Can you Loosen and Tighten spokes with a deflated tire on or does the tire have to be removed to do this.???

Fantastic video.

Love this channel !

Good work!

Your feel ,eye & hearing is better than any app for truing wheels.

SUPER, many thx!

Very helpful!

WOW! Bad Ass!!! Thank you!

Thanks to this usefull and gratefull vido, ..Park Tool you are grateful , you are a grate teachers

Great Video! I am still slightly confused as to the tension on one side of the rim vs the other. why would the load not be evenly distributed between left and right side? Thanks for these videos !!!

@parktool

6 жыл бұрын

Good question. On most rear wheels and many disc bike front wheels the bracing angles are different as the hub flanges need to be offset to accomodate the gear cluster or the disc brake. The bigger the bracing angle the more it can pull the rim effectivly. When one side has more bracing angle, the smaller bracing angle needs to have a higher tension to keep up. So the side with less bracing angle has more tension than the one with a larger bracing angle.

I love this channel !!

Perfect! Thanks

That is spectacular! Thanks. Now I just have to buy the wheel truing stand and I am less anxious about spending the money.

One additional "marking" step would be to have the wheel in the stand, rotate the wheel, and mark the spoke measurement location on both sides for consistency.

Fantastic!

Thank you!

Excellent explanation, thankyou guys from Park Tool, that helped me understanding the theory of truing rims, more than the practical stuff I do on mine, I'd like to have this guy truing my wheels! Nice mustache hahaha

Does the TM-1 need calibrating after a period of use in a workshop where lots of wheels are being built?

In case of ALUMINUM spokes, are the all made from same type of alloy? Assuming that I have 2.54mm type1 alloy reading is showing me 25. And I'm making another wheel with 2.54mm type2 alloy, again reading is showing me 25 but one can be stiffer from the other right? Or It's so minimum differences that only people in Mavic,DT... are taking care about?

Спасибо! Все коротко и ясно!

What pen do you use to write on black rim? I have a silver Sharpie but I think it is paint rathet than ink so I don't want to use it and ruin my wheel. Please tell what pen you use and I will go buy the same one. Thank you.

Very interesting thank you

favorited this video, very very good. tysm!

Very nice. Tks

thats a very clever system.

HI ! Will you please give us an advice as to what spoke tension to consider between the tension when the tire is removed from the wheel and tension when tire is on the wheel and inflated? I mean I measured tension of an ultegra wheel without tire and got 19 on the scale of parktool tension meter , but when I measured without the tire inflated, it returned 16 on the scale. Which of two should we consider when checking against manufacturer tension recommendation? Thank you!

@parktool

7 жыл бұрын

It is normal for tension to drop from the tire under pressure. Manufactures give tension rating assume it is without tire, as if wheel building.