Couple of months back, I installed a new rear wheel for my road bike. Its a wieman LP18.
Since then I had to get it trued at-least three times. Is this normal for new wheel?
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How many miles have you put on it in the past couple of months? – whatsisname Mar 17 '15 at 23:58
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I would say less than 500 miles. – feverDream Mar 18 '15 at 00:14
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"Normal" is a place in Ohio. When I've built wheels it's taken a few hundred miles for them to "break in" and maintain true. I bought a wheel from Peter White, however, and he guaranteed it to be true for life (and so far it's been great). A factory-built wheel should be somewhere in-between. – Daniel R Hicks Mar 18 '15 at 12:13
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1lol. I didnt know that you had to break in wheels. – feverDream Mar 18 '15 at 20:20
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It's normal for a new wheel that was under-tensioned, unevenly tensioned, inadequately stress-relieved or whose spokes are twisted.
Either that or it's being abused - ie. if you're really throwing it around, or are carrying heavy loads on the 24-hole version.
The repeated re-truing may end up with a decent wheel, since you're just performing the stress-relieving step while riding instead of in the workshop. It may equally damage the wheel before you get there, and you really shouldn't have to pay to fix a bad build.
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after it out of true again,put some locktite inside every nipples,but if you are constantly doing aggressive riding,you have to consider other solution.
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