Timeline for How to tell if a newly built bicycle wheel is safe to ride?
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| Aug 20, 2022 at 18:16 | vote | accept | user1049697 | ||
| Aug 20, 2022 at 18:15 | comment | added | user1049697 | @pgee70 Still alive and well. | |
| Aug 20, 2022 at 4:21 | comment | added | pgee70 | @user1049697 how did it go? | |
| Dec 28, 2016 at 9:38 | comment | added | andy256 | Hi user1049697. I see you recently did your (first?) review task. Here is a resource that may help with future reviews. Cheers | |
| Oct 19, 2016 at 14:07 | comment | added | david1024 | Do not test-ride on busy streets or far from support/shop. (think short walk while carrying the bike--because if you have a terrible problem, that's what you'll do). Wheels, even poorly built ones, don't just EXPLODE and KILL you INSTANTLY the first time you ride them. Do a short ride, check the tensions and nipples and 'trueness' and then 'stress' the wheel with some out of the saddle pedaling efforts and hard stops (e.g. pull the brake lever and pedal out of the saddle at the same time...) Keep checking the wheel, and then load the bike and go for a longer trip and recheck. repeat. | |
| Oct 18, 2016 at 11:51 | comment | added | krzyski | Let your mother-in-law to try it. | |
| Oct 18, 2016 at 1:56 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackBicycles/status/788197029600256005 | ||
| Oct 18, 2016 at 0:11 | answer | added | Nathan Knutson | timeline score: 5 | |
| Oct 17, 2016 at 23:50 | comment | added | Criggie♦ | At some point you have to ride on it. You need to gain CMD - "Confidence in Mechanical Details" because you know you've done it right. Like testing parachute packing - there's no substitute for using it in anger. | |
| Oct 17, 2016 at 23:34 | comment | added | Daniel R Hicks | Before you finish truing you should always lay the wheel flat on the bench, with some sort of slight pad (eg a folded cloth) under the axle, and put about 50 pounds of weight (from your arms) on opposite sides of the rim (ie, one arm to the left, the other to the right). Do this several times on one side, rotating the wheel a bit each time, then flip it over and do the same on the other side. Then do the final check for true. This gets most of the "sproing" out of the wheel. Beyond that there's no reason to mistrust a newly-built wheel. | |
| Oct 17, 2016 at 20:03 | answer | added | Nate W | timeline score: 13 | |
| Oct 17, 2016 at 19:53 | history | asked | user1049697 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |