People have all sorts of advice on how to lace or true a wheel, but how do you know how tight to tighten the spokes? Advivce on how tight is probably not common because it's hard to quantify spoke tightness. Should we get out our pitch pipes? I have a bad habit of just making the tension on all of the spokes the same, but how do I know how tight this should be? On my new bike, I noticed that the spokes in general are much looser than spokes on my other bikes. What's right and what's wrong? How do you know?
Please don't reply instructing me to buy the fancy spoke torque wrench gizmo. I'm not wishing to spend the money for one of these, obviously 99% of the folks out there get by just fine without one.
I think at dirt week i'll do a quick survey (with a cold drink in hand) to see how my spokes compare to others'.
Anyway, i'm wondering if it's possible to have spokes that ring when you tap on them, and feel relatively snug, but allow the front wheel to flex, causing poor handling.
Please don't reply instructing me to buy the fancy spoke torque wrench gizmo. I'm not wishing to spend the money for one of these, obviously 99% of the folks out there get by just fine without one.
I think at dirt week i'll do a quick survey (with a cold drink in hand) to see how my spokes compare to others'.
Anyway, i'm wondering if it's possible to have spokes that ring when you tap on them, and feel relatively snug, but allow the front wheel to flex, causing poor handling.