Out of true already? - Page 2

yea. there is your answer...

I did not notice that my wheel was horribly out of true until I washed it, so I checked right away to make sure it was in the dropouts correctly. The wheel is definetly out of true, BIG TIME. It took me quite a while to get in back in and adjust the brakes so that the wheel wouldn't rub. I would have gotten the problem taken care of, but I had a race that night. I do not know how to true a wheel, is there much to it? If all of these problems lava is talking about are true, do you think it was just a clinker bike he got? If it truly is all low end bontrager components are crap, do you think I would be better off trying to sell my 1.5 and buy another new bike with better components? As I said earlier, I have had my 1.5 for 2 months now. What would the resale value be? The bike has no imperfections in appearance except a couple small scratches on my brake lever, and works fine except the rear wheel. The bike originally is $1039.99. I love my bike, would it be worthwhile to get a new groupset and wheels or would that be more expensive than just buying an entirely new bike? Would the resale value of my components nearly compensate for the cost of a new groupset?

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"Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place." -Lance Armstrong

How big is "big time?" If you turn the wheel and watch how far it wobbles with respect to a reference, like the brake pad, you can post how far out of true it is. For instance if the wheel turns and stays centered except at one spot where it moves 1cm away from the pad it's 1 cm out of true.

If it's hugely out of true and this happened all of a sudden, then you ought to look for something else that's amiss, like a broken spoke or cracks in the rim, emanating from the spoke holes.

Cracked rim? You are scaring me now hehe, I don't think there is any serious damage like that, definetly no broken spokes, and I do not see any problems with the rim, would I need to take the tire off to see that? There are about 3 spots that stick out a bit, far enough to rub on the brake pad lightly.

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"Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place." -Lance Armstrong