[splat]

I bought another road bike last december , and when I bought from the guy ( from another forum) he had said the wheels were very new and had really only been used on the trainer. I belived him the Braking surfaces had barely been touched. So I have put may 300 Miles on these wheel when Yesterday I was doing a Metric century , and at about mile 40 I notice my back end is awfully loose. and In my lowest gear I have a Click . I stopat a red light and take a quick look and the spokes have no practially no tension , the clicking I am hearing is a spoke brushin the rear derailer . so I get home, take the wheel off throw it on the truing stand , wow is it out of true and a couple of spokes are so loose I can easily turn the nipples by hand. so I re-tension, re-tru, re-dish the wheel and now it feels soooooo much better!

I am now getting to the point I don't trust any wheel unless I built it !

 

[Zaskar Rider]

I've had even handbuilt wheels lose tension after the first couple rides or so. Not really a big deal as long as you watch them the first couple rides and retension them.

 

[Westy]

I have become very anal about my wheels lately. I kept having problems with all my not handbuilt wheels breaking spokes. I got a spoke tensiometer and went through all my wheels. Before long rides I like to throw the tensiometer on my wheels and check everything out. I have confidence in my wheels now but I will still find screwed up spokes that have gotten stretched from sticks getting caught in the wheel. I put a mark on spokes that I have problems with and if I have a problem with it more than once it gets replaced. I have been going on a lot of epic 40+ mile MTB rides lately and can not affort to get stranded in the middle of nowhere because of a trashed wheel.

 

[Damn True]

I have very little trust for machine built wheels.

 

[BigMike]

Originally posted by Westy
I have become very anal about my wheels lately. I kept having problems with all my not handbuilt wheels breaking spokes. I got a spoke tensiometer and went through all my wheels. Before long rides I like to throw the tensiometer on my wheels and check everything out. I have confidence in my wheels now but I will still find screwed up spokes that have gotten stretched from sticks getting caught in the wheel. I put a mark on spokes that I have problems with and if I have a problem with it more than once it gets replaced. I have been going on a lot of epic 40+ mile MTB rides lately and can not affort to get stranded in the middle of nowhere because of a trashed wheel.

Where do you get one of those thingies?

 

[JRB]

Originally posted by splat
I bought another road bike last december , and when I bought from the guy ( from another forum) he had said the wheels were very new and had really only been used on the trainer. I belived him the Braking surfaces had barely been touched. So I have put may 300 Miles on these wheel when Yesterday I was doing a Metric century , and at about mile 40 I notice my back end is awfully loose. and In my lowest gear I have a Click . I stopat a red light and take a quick look and the spokes have no practially no tension , the clicking I am hearing is a spoke brushin the rear derailer . so I get home, take the wheel off throw it on the truing stand , wow is it out of true and a couple of spokes are so loose I can easily turn the nipples by hand. so I re-tension, re-tru, re-dish the wheel and now it feels soooooo much better!

I am now getting to the point I don't trust any wheel unless I built it !

Roadie :eviltongu

 

[jdcamb]

Originally posted by splat
I am now getting to the point I don't trust any wheel unless I built it !

Me too....

 

[allsk8sno]

hmm so i guess my finger tensioning and randomn tightening is prolly bad then...some day i will have to learn how to build wheels...(shake fist):angry:

 

[splat]

Originally posted by loco-gringo
Roadie :eviltongu

here we go the roadie hate!

 

[Serial Midget]

Originally posted by splat
here we go the roadie hate!

Apparently it's in the by-laws of the jungle.

I do the old fashioned ping test, if it sounds good it MUST be properly tensioned. Right?

 

[jdcamb]

Originally posted by allsk8sno
hmm so i guess my finger tensioning and randomn tightening is prolly bad then...some day i will have to learn how to build wheels...(shake fist):angry:

I don't need no steekin' tensiometer.....jdcamb

 

[splat]

Originally posted by jdcamb
I don't need no steekin' tensiometer.....jdcamb

exactly ! I just can tell by feel . I used to have them checked by a shop after I had built them , they would tell me that I tend to be a little on the high side with my tension. Butthat is a hell of a lot better than being on the low side!

 

[narlus]

Originally posted by Damn True
I have very little trust for machine built wheels.

how did the wheels on yr giant hold up? mine haev been remarkably trouble-free, and i didn't retension them. in fact, i've done nothing to them.

 

[Damn True]

Originally posted by narlus
how did the wheels on yr giant hold up? mine haev been remarkably trouble-free, and i didn't retension them. in fact, i've done nothing to them.

The stock wheels?
Like crap.

a) I think the material itself has a rockwell rating just slightly higher than warm butter.
b) They wouldn't stay true worth a darn until I had them rebuilt at my LBS.
c) Even after the rebuild they flat spotted like crazy. Just too soft.

The 321's I had built at my LBS have been bullet-proof.

 

[Morryjg]

Originally posted by BigMike
Where do you get one of those thingies?

Almost anyone that carries tools has them. Your LBS would be able to order one up for you too.

Here's one

 

[BigMike]

Originally posted by Morryjg
Almost anyone that carries tools has them. Your LBS would be able to order one up for you too.

Here's one

$120??!?

No thanks, I'll just take my wheels to my shop and have them tension them for free

 

[fonseca]

$49.

 

[narlus]

Originally posted by Damn True
The stock wheels?
Like crap.

a) I think the material itself has a rockwell rating just slightly higher than warm butter.
b) They wouldn't stay true worth a darn until I had them rebuilt at my LBS.
c) Even after the rebuild they flat spotted like crazy. Just too soft.

The 321's I had built at my LBS have been bullet-proof.

oh, the Comp had different wheels than the Team, right? my team wheels (ringle hubs, 321 rims) have been bombproof!