Is this DT Swiss X430 wheel fixable? Thanks
Update: took the wheel completely apart. I’ll try to salvage it, but most likely gonna need a your wheel. Thanks for everyone’s help.
by Radiant_Taste
Is this DT Swiss X430 wheel fixable? Thanks
Update: took the wheel completely apart. I’ll try to salvage it, but most likely gonna need a your wheel. Thanks for everyone’s help.
by Radiant_Taste
16 Comments
Absolutely fixable. There is no harsh bend and I don’t see much hop so it should tru pretty easily.
Work slowly around the rim. One spoke will not fix it. All of them together will make it work. There is still a chance it will not true.
Yes but you need to do a full rebuild. Take off all of the spokes, use a couple pieces of wood and your body weight to bend the rim back to roughly straight. Then put back all of the spikes and true. You cannot get it back to straight just by tightening and loosening the spokes. This also carries a risk that your rim will jot be as strong as before.
Try and if you fail oh well you’re going to have to get a rim anyway, also I hope you dont have rim breaks
I’d detension the wheel and try and get the majority of the bend out by pressing/stepping/hitting the rim then retensioning and trueing. Kicks that big are really hard to pull out with spokes and you often end up getting an egg shaped wheel. I work at a shop at a bike park and get stuff like this pretty frequently, usually we de-tension and step on the rim around the kick until it is relatively straight then re-tension and true as normal.
Everyone saying it is really doesn’t know as we don’t know the status of the current spoke tension (is it more bent but some spokes are masking it by holding the tension). Maybe you can get it better than it is now but the rim is compromised and you will likely start breaking spokes if you’re riding hard in anyway.
Its worth giving it a shot but if it’s getting worse as you try trying it, it’s probably worse than it’s letting on.
If the rim isnt deformed, yes. It’s probably a little deformed, in which case you can get it rideable but it won’t be perfect.
If the terms dish and radial true don’t scare you, loosen every nipple by 2 full turns, balance the tension out and start from scratch. Don’t do this unless you’re committed to the full process of building the wheel, including centering the rim and making it round.
Use teams of 4 spokes to make broad adjustments, tightening pairs to pull and loosening pairs to “push”. The wheel may not come out perfect if there’s a rim bend, but at the very least you can get some more riding out of it.
Yeah I’ve trued a wheel this bent before give it a shot. May not be as healthy a wheel for the future but hey
The rim is bent. You might be able to get it ridable but the spoke tension will be all over the place.
Probably not, but worth a shot!
I guess it is taco Tuesday after all
Toast
Eh, close enough
Nope. I’ve done the good ol floor whack and knocked them super straight…. but it will not stay that way.
Mount a Maxxis tire on that bad boy and the casing wobble will counteract the bent wheel and look straight.
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Lot of good advice if you care to undertake a restoration. It will burn time and energy, but the experience will probably be worth it. Take it to a friendly bike shop when you’re satisfied (don’t forget the beverages). You might get more good advice.