Nephew brought it over, said he "doesn't know what happened" lol. Looks too far gone, but I tensioned all the spokes to the same to try to get a starting point, some were way off, but basically no improvement. Thoughts?
Bent, Cracked, or Way Out of True?
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by LightGuyJake1
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Bro is trying to revive a corpse
Only way to know is to get it straight and then check that the tensions are within the acceptable range
Holy crap. But also, I have that same truing stand. I quite like it.
Taco Tuesday.
none of the above, fucked.
need a new wheel or replace with new rim and spokes.
Lays potato chip. She’s done.
Go home wheel, you’re drunk….
The technical term for that is taco.
Usually, in most cases, almost every time, you can be almost sure of it, it will require a new rim.
you might be able to straighten it but it will likely break spokes. id replace the wheel.
How about “toast”?
I find the best way to fix this issue is aligning my credit card with new wheels.
At this point you might as well unlace the whole thing, see if the hoop will even pretend to go straight.
Edit: Never mind, just saw the crack. To the bin with this.
I think that one is called Fubar
This is the consensus I expected. So what should I call out my nephew for doing to it? If it was the front wheel I’d say he hit a freaking moose or something..
That’s a bent rim my friend. You can true it to buy some time, but it’ll never be quite right.
That is proper fucked rip rim
Holy shit! Throw it away.
To be fair. I once saw a bike mechanic take a wheel like that one, lay it on the ground on a wodden platform and “adjust” it with his feet. He took it up, set it on the bike and it was almost completely true. But I couldn’t do that.
Rim is gone. Just buy a new one, tape them together & swap the spokes across.
>Bent, cracked, or way out of true?
Yes.
Yes.
Toast
I had a similar one and i found out most of the spokes had not nipples on them (got unscrewed and lost).
Maybe your case… if not, you probably need to buy a new one… how it happened?
Yes
You can save it if you have the patience
Taco’d is how I’d describe it. Time for a new rim.
Rule of thumb:
Imagine you removed the spokes and the hub so you’re left with just the rim. Then you lay the rim down on a glass coffee table. If it lays flat then the rim is still true and the wheel can be tried by adjusting spoke tensions, if it doesn’t lie flat then the rim is bent. Depending on how bent it is, you *may* be able to adjust the wheel back to true with spoke tensions, but it will always be compromised due to uneven spoke tensions.
You could get it straight. And it would last 100 miles before that one spoke breaks and it folds into a proper potato chip, sending bike and rider flying into an intersection to land in front of a carload of peers who all break out in laughter just as the light turns green.
I may have some experience in such matters.