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    Brand new bike has wobbly front wheel.

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    1. Shizzle44 on

      the wheel is untrue. if you don’t have a truing station and a spoke tension adjustment tool, you will pretty much have to take it to a shop

    2. Flyon_wall on

      Sometimes this happens. Do some easy checks first. Make sure the wheel is set correctly. Loosen skewer, and reset it. Then give it a spin. Another check is letting all the air out of tube and just messing with the bead a little and then fully airing tube up to re-bead. Sometimes it’s just a sloppy tire bead and that makes it look out of true. And if it’s still looking like this really check the wheel. If you don’t have a truing stand at home, there are some at home versions you can use, just check YouTube. Or go support your local Bike shop. They will happily true your brand new wheel for ya

    3. SunnyDaze9999 on

      This looks like a quick release instead of a through axle mounting system. If that’s the case, make sure that the wheel is properly seated in the quick release is nicely tightened.

      Secondly is the tire inflated? It may be that the tires just not sitting properly on the rim. One way to check is to remove the tire and just put on the rim and spin it

    4. reed12321 on

      This is very common. I have built thousands of bikes out of the box and the wheels are never true. They get bumped in the box when they’re moved around and it causes the wheel to be out of true. Those wheels are also machine-built and so it’s hard to determine if they’re detensioned after they’re taken out of the machine.

    5. rtwebb on

      Are you sure it’s even the wheel? The tire could just have a bit of a wobble and may not be seated fully

    6. MooseBlazer on

      Wait a minute. Do You know it’s the rim and not the tire?

      Did you hold your finger on the fork near the rim while you rotated it?

      The more affordable the bike, the more likely the brake disc is also not straight. There’s a special slotted tool for this.

      It’s pretty common for tires to not seat properly and also just be out of round from being deflated in a box in a hot shipping container on a loading dock somewhere.

    7. Illustrious-Dog721 on

      Check your wheel set if it’s aligned (skewer is properly mounted, rims are aligned)

      Reinstall your tires, sometimes the bead is not mounted properly to the rims so you should check that out.

      If these two are okay but it’s still wobbly, the tires are defect

    10. lowbandwidthb on

      You should be looking at the rim spinning, not the tire, to determine if the wheel is out of true. From what I could see in your video, the rim looks true, although I can’t be sure. As others mentioned, even if the wheel is true, the tire might still have some wobble in it for a variety of reasons. It’s bothing to worry about as long as it’s seated correctly and holding air.

    11. badweatherford on

      If you bought at a brick and mortar shop, take it back to them.
      I don’t agree with having to take it to a bike shop. Get a spoke wrench and watch a YouTube video. The rim isn’t bent, you just have some spokes that aren’t the right tension (either too tight or too loose). It’s easy. You can do it. Put a couple zip ties on your fork, and mark the spoke you start with with tape. You really have nothing to lose by trying to do it yourself.

    12. sjanzeir on

      First, undo the quick release, push the wheel down (up?) hard into the dropouts, and redo the quick release. Now check if the brake rotor still rubs. If it still rubs and the rubbing is all the way around, you’re going to need to recenter your brake caliper, which is an easy enough task if you know what you’re doing (if you don’t, either stare at it long enough until you do, or pull up any of the thousands of YouTube videos that’ll show you how how to do it.) if it’s just one part of the rotor rubbing, then the rotor has some runout to it that you can easily (but carefully) bend to true.

      Next, make sure if it’s the actual wheel rim that’s doing the wobbling, not just the tire being wobbly, which is fairly common, even with expensive tires. If the wheel rim is straight and true and it’s just the tire dancing around, just leave it alone. If it’s the actual rim (which I doubt it is, because what I see in the video looks more like a slightly misaligned tire carcass) then you’ve got some learning to do as to how to true a wheel.

    14. doosher2000k on

      Looks like a cheap bike with cheap construction and components. You can improve it but we are not talking about high end engineering here..

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