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Right, the bike's on the workstand and the wheels been inspected (by my amateur eyes). It looks like the wheel needs a bit of truing and one spoke has indeed got a bit of a twist in it and sounds like a bit of tightening wouldn't go amiss. I didn't get any tools for the wheels so I've just ordered a Park spoke wrench. These wheels need a 5.5 socket and my socket set's too chunky to get through the holes in the rim.
Possibly some of the flex could be that I am running a standard chainset and could really use a few easier gears on the back but am limited by the short cage so any hill climbing tends to be more brute force and less spinning so a lot more pressure is going through the drive. Of course I may be talking complete tosh.
We'll see what happens once the tool arrives.