If your rim is aluminium, ditch it – it’s a material that accumulates stress and becomes brittle from it. If it’s steel, you can probably bang it back in decent shape!
> The proper repair in this situation is first to bend the rim back to its normal shape, and then fine-true it with the spokes. Lightweight wheels can be bent fairly easily by placing your knee or foot right on the peak of the bend, and pulling with your hands on either side of the bend. This or a similar technique should be used whenever a rim is bent more than 1 centimeter to the side and there are no broken spokes. Even wheels that have collapsed into the shape of a potato chip usually can be made rideable again with this technique This is a very useful on-the-road repair — it even can be done without removing the wheel from the bike. If you are not sure of your skill, you are less likely to do further damage bending wheels over your knee, spectacular as it may look, than with a spoke wrench used carelessly.
zingzing175 on
Just gotta widen the rear end a bit!
/s
SaucyNelson on
In the streets to get home? Sure. Riding a skatepark tomorrow? No way.
kidbike on
Nope
Adventurous_Kiwi1901 on
The taco. You can true it but it will never be the same , though rideable
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If your rim is aluminium, ditch it – it’s a material that accumulates stress and becomes brittle from it. If it’s steel, you can probably bang it back in decent shape!
Start with [Sheldon Brown’s explanation about truing wheels](https://sheldonbrown.com/tooltips/truing.html).
> The proper repair in this situation is first to bend the rim back to its normal shape, and then fine-true it with the spokes. Lightweight wheels can be bent fairly easily by placing your knee or foot right on the peak of the bend, and pulling with your hands on either side of the bend. This or a similar technique should be used whenever a rim is bent more than 1 centimeter to the side and there are no broken spokes. Even wheels that have collapsed into the shape of a potato chip usually can be made rideable again with this technique This is a very useful on-the-road repair — it even can be done without removing the wheel from the bike. If you are not sure of your skill, you are less likely to do further damage bending wheels over your knee, spectacular as it may look, than with a spoke wrench used carelessly.
Just gotta widen the rear end a bit!
/s
In the streets to get home? Sure. Riding a skatepark tomorrow? No way.
Nope
The taco. You can true it but it will never be the same , though rideable
Bruh
No
RIP
Dunno why but that pic made my day 😂