Wheel truing

Just got some nice deep v's but they are out of true (possibly happened in transit)
would do it myself but don't have a jig
Where's best and whats the cost per wheel?
or

does anyone have a jig?

Ta

Robin

turn bike upside down, true on your forks using the brake calipers as guides.

thread closed. UTFS.

Thread reopened. Don't be so harsh benjam. Robin, there's a truing stand and dishing tool available for anyone to use at Cranks on Chapel Street Fridays and Saturdays. Get you some!

I'm not being harsh. I'm lovely. There's plenty of guidance available on this here forum and with every repeated thread Dave incurs yet another DB storage hit.

f*ck it, give em me and I'll do em at souths/wests for free.

Benjam, thanks for the advice... ten years as a bike mechanic I never would have guessed it. Tit

I use a jig to get wheels precise, and also as it's likely to be claimed for, I will need a receipt from a shop to claim the money back

Cranks you say? Do they have a dishing tool too? Might just do that then
See you saturday

Location = Brighton

Hence thread in Brighton sub heading

turn bike upside down, true on your forks using the brake calipers as guides.

thread closed. UTFS.

This isn't very accurate though issit.

I know it's been discussed before, sorry.
But, whilst I'm here. I was at a polo tourney and in between games there were quite a few bikes upended with wheels spinning slowly. Someone said this helps re-true them. I was pished so believed them but in the cold light of day, seems unlikely.
True or false?

never heard that one, but i guess the centrifugal force acting on the rims might help to re-true. might be a bit of a myth tho!

Benjam, thanks for the advice... ten years as a bike mechanic and i don't know any other mechanics in London that I could borrow a jig from so I have to start a thread on a forum and look like a tool

ftfy

Benjam, hate to state the obvious again but -
Location = Brighton hence why this thread is in the Brighton sub heading

When did asking where the best place in Brighton to get wheels true'd become a crime?

I don't think I'm the one that looks like a tool

This isn't very accurate though issit.

I know it's been discussed before, sorry.
But, whilst I'm here. I was at a polo tourney and in between games there were quite a few bikes upended with wheels spinning slowly. Someone said this helps re-true them. I was pished so believed them but in the cold light of day, seems unlikely.
True or false?

lol, thanks, I needed cheering up

i just find it surprising you know no other mechanics...

Recently moved to Brighton
Don't know any other mechanics yet, otherwise I wouldn't be asking where to take my wheels or find a jig and dishing tool

@ Wiksie - I'm off-loading some rainbow paint if you're interested...

I'd had half a crate of Crabbies, that amount of sugar sends you loco, AND there were at least 5 bikes doing it.

@ Wiksie - I'm off-loading some rainbow paint if you're interested...

dibs.

Just got some nice deep v's but they are out of true (possibly happened in transit)
would do it myself but don't have a jig
Where's best and whats the cost per wheel?
or

does anyone have a jig?

Ta

Robin

They arent peps nicked ones are they? ;)

Go to cranks, ignore Benjam

You can do it in the forks - stick of chalk/magic marker and elastic bands works fine, as does a pipecleaner - anything that rubs on the rim. Try it, it's suprisingly easy. Check the Sheldon thread on truing. Bit at at time is the key...

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We're a friendly lot in Brighton and as Rising knows us Btown polo boys are on here regular-like and are also truing wheels with frightening regularity then I put forward the case that this was, in fact, a good place to ask this question.

That's just my tuppence ha'penny worth though.

Look how much DB space we're taking up debating the point. Isn't life funny like that?

ive got a park jig. welcome round anytime.

Cheesecake_intl - you're a legend!
Have we met at polo before?
Are you around this weekend - like to get them all strait and put them on my new frame

Diceface - totally agree! Thanks mate

You work in Seaford? truing stand is at my parents house, just outside newhaven....

Seaford Colleg Petworth not Seaford unfortunately - Newhaven is the other direction
Thanks for the offer tho