Cased a drop with my rear, and bent my rim and got a flat. Tried to straighten it but it cracked, or was already. Fairly sure it is a crack not a scratch because sealant was seeping out of it (pic 2). I sanded away the paint so i could see better. Is there any fix worth doing?
Also, how hard is it to build a wheel? This is on a i9 1/1 hub, I quite like. I've never built a wheelset, and it looks kinda fun to do, but I don't have a trueing stand, an it may be way more complicated than I think it is. I do my own lower leg service, hub service, brake bleeds, ect.
Also, any recommendations on hardy rims. I seem to be fairly hard on them, and probably also need to run more PSI. Thanks.
by vickrockafeller
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Burnt toast, friend.
Building wheels requires a zip tie, spoke key, a caliper for measurements and a lot of patience.
One of the hard parts is determining [spoke length](https://www.parktool.com/en-us/blog/repair-help/determining-spoke-length-for-wheel-building?srsltid=AfmBOooT4oWbJ0rdaEcG1T5d68LVFWsBlgWzhFBajR5qWuABmwQ0veJv) with the new rim.
Other resources include Jobst Brandt’s The Bicycle Wheel, or Roger Musson’s A Practical Guide to Wheel Building.
This rim is toast.
Changing the rim is not impossible without a truing stand but I highly recommend the right spoke wrench and a lot of patience especially doing it for the first time.
Burnt, my friend. Bummer!
If you can find the ERD of the rim online or the same rim for sale you can perform a rim swap which involves tapping the new rim to the old one and transferring the spokes across.
You need to de-tension the wheel first and retention it the right way before truing.
Download Gerd Schraner’s “the art of wheel building” and follow his process me