I've been having trouble keeping my rear wheel true, I would true it and during the first ride it would develop a wobble. I thought my spoke tension was pretty good, but it appears it wasn't. I've been want to buy a spoke tension gage, but always seem to spend money on something else.
This week I was doing a quicky retrue on the bike before rides and yesterday the wheel went real wobbly when I was climbing a hill. I had to release the brake like doing a tire change to get home.
I was thinking of changing the high tension spokes on the freewheel side to straight gage, thinking those spokes might be fatigued from decades of use and me possibly being too heavy for the wheel.
I decided to release the tension on all the spokes and see what the wheel looked like to see if I needed to replace the rim too. After everything was loose, I looked at the wheel and it had a minor wobble, so I decided to retrue and see what happened.
Rode about 12 miles today and the wheel stayed true. I think the spokes were overtensioned previously.
This week I was doing a quicky retrue on the bike before rides and yesterday the wheel went real wobbly when I was climbing a hill. I had to release the brake like doing a tire change to get home.
I was thinking of changing the high tension spokes on the freewheel side to straight gage, thinking those spokes might be fatigued from decades of use and me possibly being too heavy for the wheel.
I decided to release the tension on all the spokes and see what the wheel looked like to see if I needed to replace the rim too. After everything was loose, I looked at the wheel and it had a minor wobble, so I decided to retrue and see what happened.
Rode about 12 miles today and the wheel stayed true. I think the spokes were overtensioned previously.