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This might be one for @edscoble
Can you change wheel dishing by just truing it?
#CSB - TL;DR ->>>>
Background:
I have a Hinde Race Series road bike which I have build up with Ultegra 6700 and Mavic Aksiums (2009) fitted with 25mm Continental GP4000S.
I did exactly 18km with the bike before Christmas and everything worked as it should, apart from a slight rear wheel buckle.
No rubbing at the back (apart from one of the brake pads where when the wheel wobbled). Tyre clearance was OK, no rubbing on FD clamp or against rear stays.
My neighbour has his wheels stolen and since I wasn't using the Hinde, I loaned him the wheelset for a couple of months then got myself a truing stand for Christmas. I got the wheels back last month.
I trued the rear wheel at the weekend and managed to do a pretty good job (in my opinion) and corrected the lateral trueness to about 1mm on each side. I refitted the rear wheel and noticed that the radial trueness was way off and and I have a massive flat spot -> this meant that the 25mm GP4000s tyre was rubbing against the FD clamp on the seat tube at the flat spot at every rotation.
Last night, I removed the tyre and I re-trued the wheel both laterally and radially to a pretty good standard.
However, when I refitted the wheel, it looks like the dishing is about 5mm 'too much' on the driveside, which means that the rear wheel is not centrered properly when it is in the dropouts (no adjustments possible).
The tyre now constantly rubs on the FD clamp and also the driveside stay. It appears to be 5mm off centre so doesn't sit in the rear brake caliper nicely.
I was thinking I could deal with this problem by moving axle spacers around to re-centre the wheel, however the smallest cog of the cassette is about 3mm away from the frame so that will not work.
#CSB #WTFHAPPENED?
Views welcome and I will take photos tonight