I recently posted here about a tire wobble. I took the bike to a shop, and they said they trued the wheel, so I assumed it was done well. After a few comments on the video, I decided to recheck it and found this. Is this an acceptable level of wobble, or am I being too OCD?
by landavis
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If I did it myself I’d be happy with it but you paid a pro it should be perfect almost
It the wheel isnt rubbing on the brakes youre golden.
I don’t know what your wheel was like before, so.. Maybe the tech performed small miracles, maybe it could have been better. You’ll never notice it with disk brakes.
If it was my wheel, I’d probably try tweaking it a bit more.
The secret to wheel truing is knowing when to call it quits.
generally half a mm of deviation is acceptable for lateral truing. If you paid for a wheel truing, I would probably take it back if its much more than .5mm
[https://youtu.be/xz6nM6SY-aY](https://youtu.be/xz6nM6SY-aY)
Good enough for government work
Your level of perfectionism will increase the better you get.
I’d want to say that’s good enough, but my inner demons wouldn’t let me leave it like that… If I were doing it for someone else or myself. Other people being happy doesn’t bother me… Let’s roll!
On a used inexpensive mountain bike wheel, especially if it’s a cheap ebike, that is often as good as it can get.
Don’t just pay attention to the lateral true, also pay attention to the tension of the spokes relative to one another. Sometimes the rim needs a lot of encouragement from the spokes, and then the uneven tension causes them to start breaking
Get a spoke tensiometer and then loosen, not tighten spokes if the tension is already high in all the spokes. Get the rim true, then tension them all equally as much as possible. The drive side and non drive side will have different tension values. It’s not rocket science and a tensiometer gives you insight to exactly what the state of the wheel is.
Plenty good for riding.
I know plenty of people who would not want to ride like this just because it wpuld disturb their peace of mind.
That’s a personal question
Wheels can settle after adjustment. Having the same person that worked on it is somewhat helpful because they know what they did on every side and spoke basically, so should know where to provide relief or tension to set it straight quickly. Wheel building is not easy. Concepts are easy. Feel and art take a long long time.
I’ve had a similar thing with a decently out of true rim and was told it was done the best they could. Next time it went out of true I did it myself and got it dead straight
If there is even tension, then acceptable. If there are loose spokes involved, then re-investigate. For disc rims, that precision is not nearly as critical, unless the strength of the wheel is questionable.
Just buy a spoke wrench and do it yourself, will take you 5mins, you really dont need a truing stand. Also if its a rear wheel those spoke needs high tension to begin with.