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Good question! I gave up trying to use my truing stand. A
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I've successfully used a truing stand to build a couple of
unicycle wheels. I think I just sat the bearings in the
grooves somehow and kept pushing them back into place every
now and then.

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I just tool my KH in for truing, and the guy that does it
looked like I had brought in an alien life form. He had no
idea what to do. He ended up eye balling it best he could
and didn't charge me anything. I guess there isn't much call
for a uni truing stand, but you would think that the shops
that sell them would be able to service them.

I was thinking that the removing the cranks and setting
the bearings in a bearing cup, with a hinged cup on top
that locks with a quick connect would be perfect. It would
be nice if there was someone who sold something like this.
I may end up making something myself and start doing my
own wheels.

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Yeh one thing I'll add about what I did is that I took the
cranks off...that's a must.

Andrew

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I trued a friend's Coker the other day and found that the
thumbnail method is fine for Cokers at least because the
wheel has so much momentum so you can spend a while making
sure your thumb is sitting still before the wheel slows
down. That's the problem with truing my trials uni...the
wheel doesn't roll as easily.

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I'd just take the cranks off and use an indicator afixed to
the frame. The only weird part would be to get the dishing
right, but even this seems pretty easy. Just find a flat
surface, and when the wheel is true somehow find a way to
block it up with the spindle perpendicular to and touching
the surface, then measure the hight of the rim above the
surface in three spots. If they aren't even adjust the
blocking until they are. Record the average distance, flip
the wheel over and repeat the process. If all the
measurements agree the wheel is properly dished.

Or you could use a custom dishing gage.

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