I have some old wheels on an old bike that I'm constantly having to true. I'm new to truing and have just about gotten comfortable with lateral adjustments, and it's not a big deal to correct some side-to-side wobble anymore.
Anyway, when I was inspecting my front wheel today, I noticed a "low spot." It's quite minor but it's causing the brakes to rub a little bit there. All the stuff on vertical truing I've read deals with "high spots." That seems pretty straightforward, you tighten the spokes and it pulls the high spot back down into round. However with this low spot I don't know what to do. I read one thing that just said loosen the 2 spokes at the low spot but they're already looser than the surrounding spokes and doing that doesn't help.
I tried tightening the spokes at right angles to the spoke that leads to the low spot, and that helped very slightly. Well I've been playing with the thing for an hour and I've got the low spot from maybe 1.2-1.5 mm out of round to say 0.7-0.9mm
Anybody got any tips at this point? Replacing the wheel or even going to an LBS at all is not an option right now.
Anyway, when I was inspecting my front wheel today, I noticed a "low spot." It's quite minor but it's causing the brakes to rub a little bit there. All the stuff on vertical truing I've read deals with "high spots." That seems pretty straightforward, you tighten the spokes and it pulls the high spot back down into round. However with this low spot I don't know what to do. I read one thing that just said loosen the 2 spokes at the low spot but they're already looser than the surrounding spokes and doing that doesn't help.
I tried tightening the spokes at right angles to the spoke that leads to the low spot, and that helped very slightly. Well I've been playing with the thing for an hour and I've got the low spot from maybe 1.2-1.5 mm out of round to say 0.7-0.9mm
Anybody got any tips at this point? Replacing the wheel or even going to an LBS at all is not an option right now.