AdrenalineJunkie
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I was feeling rather bored while sick today so i decided to put my mind to work. I invented this all on my lonesome and if someone's already done it then farkin hell i didn't copy.
I have trouble truing front wheels that are disc equiped because there isn't the guides that you get with v brakes. At work i have to always take the wheel off and put em on the jig because i'm not good enough to do em on the bike yet :x when their disc specific. A highly annoying, time consuming, and not to mention embarassing proccess.
For those that don't work in a BS and want to true their own rims and have the same ineptness as me, then either u gotta pay for your LBS (and we do it very well at that :wink: ) to do it, or buy urself a jig.
Not anymore!
"WTF" i hear u say?
All you need is a thick rubber band, two pencils (one wit an eraser on the end perferably) and some sticky tape.
Well...
1. Sticky tape the pencil's together at the non-eraser end then cross em till bout 45degrees.
2. Put the sticky taped end on the inside of your fork and seperate each pencil to either side of the lowers.
Place the rubber band on one of the open ends outside the forks and stretch around to the opposite pencil.
HINT: When u seperate the pencils put the eraser-equiped pencil toward whichever direction u'll be adjusting the spokes from.
3. Wrap the rubber band back around to the first pencil, they should stay on the lowers without u touchin em.
NOTE: you may need to wrap your band a few more times to get it tight enough to hold the pencils together, depending on ur rubberband, length of pencils and the size of ur lowers. :wink:
4. Spin the pencils around so that the eraser-equiped one is facing which ever direction your truing from, and the rubber band is hard up against the lowers - wrapping around by 10mm or more is better still.
HINT: Twist the rubber band against the lowers as it makes the pencils stay better with the lowers.
5. Push the pencils towards/away from the rim, sliding the rubber band up/down the pencils accordingly, so that the eraser is closest to the rim at whatever distance you need to measure the variance in ur rim. (I've suggested u use a pencil with an eraser as it doesn't scratch ur rim - hmm yes like the wood of the pencil would anyway! but yer....)
DONE!!!
Your guage should look something like this....
TO FARKIN EASY!!!
Stay tuned for the new and improved version in a few days.
I have trouble truing front wheels that are disc equiped because there isn't the guides that you get with v brakes. At work i have to always take the wheel off and put em on the jig because i'm not good enough to do em on the bike yet :x when their disc specific. A highly annoying, time consuming, and not to mention embarassing proccess.
For those that don't work in a BS and want to true their own rims and have the same ineptness as me, then either u gotta pay for your LBS (and we do it very well at that :wink: ) to do it, or buy urself a jig.
Not anymore!
"WTF" i hear u say?
All you need is a thick rubber band, two pencils (one wit an eraser on the end perferably) and some sticky tape.
Well...
1. Sticky tape the pencil's together at the non-eraser end then cross em till bout 45degrees.
2. Put the sticky taped end on the inside of your fork and seperate each pencil to either side of the lowers.
Place the rubber band on one of the open ends outside the forks and stretch around to the opposite pencil.
HINT: When u seperate the pencils put the eraser-equiped pencil toward whichever direction u'll be adjusting the spokes from.
3. Wrap the rubber band back around to the first pencil, they should stay on the lowers without u touchin em.
NOTE: you may need to wrap your band a few more times to get it tight enough to hold the pencils together, depending on ur rubberband, length of pencils and the size of ur lowers. :wink:
4. Spin the pencils around so that the eraser-equiped one is facing which ever direction your truing from, and the rubber band is hard up against the lowers - wrapping around by 10mm or more is better still.
HINT: Twist the rubber band against the lowers as it makes the pencils stay better with the lowers.
5. Push the pencils towards/away from the rim, sliding the rubber band up/down the pencils accordingly, so that the eraser is closest to the rim at whatever distance you need to measure the variance in ur rim. (I've suggested u use a pencil with an eraser as it doesn't scratch ur rim - hmm yes like the wood of the pencil would anyway! but yer....)
DONE!!!
Your guage should look something like this....
TO FARKIN EASY!!!
Stay tuned for the new and improved version in a few days.
