The wheel is true laterally but not radially. Should I just start over, loosen all spokes and do it slowly?
Did I hurry up too much and tighten one spot too hard before tightening others one by one?
What have I done and what should I do?
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by Fun_General_6159
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I feel like you gotta tighten the spokes at the bend on both sides equally, to pull it in
you tension the pair of spokes maybe a half turn each at the high spot if you want to bring this down and make the wheel rounder. but i personally wont bother and will just ride the wheel as the trueness is within reason for me. I have had tires less true than this wheel and there are only so many things in life you can give a fuck about.
Wheel truing has three components: lateral truing, radial truing, spoke tension. Your wheel is not radial trued at the moment.
Unless you’ve loosened spokes and 70% of the rim is the low-spot, you have to equally tighten left and right sides spokes on the high spot(where the wheel goes further from the hub, or closer to the brakes/frame) . The lateral truing might be off, afterwards. You should maintain a ballance between the three components, with the most important one being lateral truing. Spoke tension is not that easy to measure without a tool, so as a DIY you usually can do just radial and axial truing, and feel by hand so that spokes are not super tight or super loose.
You’re doing this right. No need to panic. In order to further true the wheel, you need to find the spot where the wheel “bulges” and then tighten or loosen the spokes on the opposite side of the wheel. This means that you have to turn the wheel a half round and adjust the spokes there. Tighten to lower the bulge, loosen to increase the bulge. This is how I learned it. You might have to adjust the sides again. Know that it’s extremely hard to get this perfect, so stop when your satisfied. Ps, English is not my native language so I hope this made sense.
I tried to straighten out such a wobble… A side wobble is not hard to straighten but i failed at doing so for such a wobble as you showed here. Better take the wheel to the shop would be my advice