Untrue wheel after skid?

Posted on Thu 29th, July 2010

• #1

frankster

hey guys,

so I was riding through town last night and had to do a pretty long and hard skid. after that, my back wheel was untrue and beyond ridable. has this ever happened to any of you? any idea how this could have happened?

cheers,

frankster
• #2

deleted

was it untrue or had it slipped forward on one side of the axle?
• #3

Gav86

The pressure may have broken a spoke which would buckle it nicely.
• #4

hippy

Check all your spokes for breakages and for tension.
If the wheel was already a bit shit (ie. spokes too low tension) you could've made this worse.
Well built wheels don't tend to suddenly go out of true unless you hit something.
• #5

frankster

cheers guys I'll go and check it later, thanks for the advice.

to be fair, the wheel was pretty cheap and this might of course be the main reason (it's the bike I leave in the city and there aren't too many expensive parts fitted since I don't want to attract any unfriendly people...)
• #6

Nahguavkire

Just do a reverse skid of equal length and hardness, should true that wheel back to perfect tension in no time...
• #7

frankster

good call! I'll get right on it

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