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In an emergency, you could try dissassembling the wheel, bending the rim straight, and rebuilding it again.
Fuck that for a laugh, I'd just twat the bent bit on the floor really hard, maybe stand on it a bit, then true it up as well as possible, then forget you broke it and carry on playing polo on it for another month.
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This.
Is the correct thing to do, if the rim got bent into that shape from a sharp impact, then it shall return the other way from a sharp impact. Tensioning fuck out of spokes to try and haul it back into line will likely result in carnage.Number of wheels saved by whacking hell out of them on a rubber mat on the floor over past 5 years if likely over 100
BrickMan
In an emergency, you could try dissassembling the wheel, bending the rim straight, and rebuilding it again. A friend did this in a campsite in Canadian Rockies, his only tools a spoke key and a park bench, many years ago. However, if the rim is actually bent, then unless you're in a campsite in the middle of Fucking Nowhere in Canada, you'd be better off rebuilding it with a new rim.
Or, in fewer words, what Snotters said...