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you may only have a couple of loose spokes causing it to be 2cm out.
I wish that were true. In fact what happened was that a substantial load was applied sideways to it while the back wheel was in a stand, which substantially pringled it, before it pinged back to within a few cm. Some judicious bending later and it's back to no more than a cm out, so I'm wondering whether I can get it back properly true with spoke retensioning.
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if it has a kink or a crack then it is too far gone but if not it can be trued. I've trued up wheels that were like Pringles back in the day when doing trails riding and they were fine.
if you have ever built a wheel you will find it will start out massively out of true, just a matter of getting it all inline. you may only have a couple of loose spokes causing it to be 2cm out.