Oh dear, time to rebuild?

I just built some wheels.

Had a nightmare trying to true the rear (road dished), then once almost-perfectly trued, it went totally wobbly on the 2 mile ride home with the wheels on my back... flippin wierd how much it went out.

I was scratching my head looking at these wheels. Then I realised the rims have spoke eyelets that are slightly offset from the middle of the rim - and I'd managed to lace them both the wrong way round, so the spoke is crossing the middle of the rim just before the nipple. Is this why the truing is going so badly wrong?

If I do have to rebuild, how do I dismantle? Do I have to undo each spoke gradually all the way round the rim?

Any help gratefully receieved.

matt builds his wheels using opposite hole, as you get better angle from inside to get to nipple. sounds like you didn't crank enough tension into spokes or bed them in. i'd just re-tension all the spokes

OK cheers dogs, good to know it isn't about to collapse.

I have been stressing the spokes in between truing and de-bumping.

Re-tensioning: Would you almost undo em all to the bottom of the nipple thread and start again, or just loosen them a bit?

if you're not confident, maybe go back to bottom of nipple.

matt builds his wheels using opposite hole, as you get better angle from inside to get to nipple. sounds like you didn't crank enough tension into spokes or bed them in. i'd just re-tension all the spokes

Not all the time. Depends upon the rim, sometimes you cant.

And also.. you will be pleased to know Dogs, that i have started building Jobst's way. Figured i would spice things up a bit.

Also could be that your spokes were twisted torsinally i.e the spoke itself was twisted and suddenly it untwisted itself, hence how it quickly became 'wobbly' again......