my spoke rubbing the brake
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id just adjust your stembar, get the tire wheel outta the way, and rebuild your seatpost
that should fix it up right nice
that should fix it up right nice
front wheel? rear wheel? new build, new problem? new problem on existing build?
Based on what minimal info you've provided, my best guesses are improperly spaced caliper or your wheel dish is off.
Based on what minimal info you've provided, my best guesses are improperly spaced caliper or your wheel dish is off.
I had this happen on a customers bike, his rear wheel was about 15mm out of dish.
We also had this same problem. Is it just one spoke or many spokes?
If its many spokes it probably is either a misaligned caliper or your wheel is dished wrong. Check to see if your wheel looks centered in your fork/rear triangle.
If its just one or two spokes like we had then the spoke may need to be tightened (too loose causing the loose spoke to be pushed out by the tighter spoke that is crossing under it) or the spokes on the opposite side may be loose causing the rim to pull slightly to the affected side. could be either
If its many spokes it probably is either a misaligned caliper or your wheel is dished wrong. Check to see if your wheel looks centered in your fork/rear triangle.
If its just one or two spokes like we had then the spoke may need to be tightened (too loose causing the loose spoke to be pushed out by the tighter spoke that is crossing under it) or the spokes on the opposite side may be loose causing the rim to pull slightly to the affected side. could be either
there's also the possibility that a spoke was improperly laced.
this is something I've had. spokes were going over where they should be going under.
it is happen on my front wheel, I did tried to adjust the caliper and even at the outest position they're still rubbing...
front wheel...it was old wheel without a problem and currently I just change with new coloured nipple and now here's comes a problem. still with same set up though...fork,hub,rims everything are the same except the nipple
happen to all of the spoke...I just checked the wheel and it is centered and no misplaced spoke...
use a ruler or a dishing tool. just because the wheel looks ok visually doesn't mean its actually properly dished. If you replaced the nipples, then you had to re-true the wheel. So the probably culprit is that the dishing is off by a minor amount.
did you relace the spokes too? did you lace up the offset drilled holes wrong, rimwise?
I had that same problem just a few weeks ago with my avid juicys - My pads were worn down to almost nothing - as I adjusted more and more it pushed my caliper closer to the spokes until it started tapping the spokes. Once I put in new pads and adjusted everything no more tapping
It could be the dish as other people have suggested. But it might just be the caliper/wheel combo you are using. I had a prebuilt Mavic wheel on a TALAS a while ago and the spokes rubbed the caliper. A few years later I bought another of the same wheel and put it on a different frame, fork and brakeset. Same issue. I tried a lot of things, checked it all out and the only solution was to adjust the caliper over as much as possible and file a little bit off of it.
Please keep up. The only thing part of his setup that has changed was replacing the nipples on the wheel and a few spokes.
didn't pay attention to it...I'm sure it was OK, no rubbing and such
It was OK before and I'm still using everythings the same...
pad still OK, it's not that old anyway. only had around 10 runs or so
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What happened to cause the spokes to break in the first place? Are you sure you don't have a flat spot in your rim our it's not true any more? Spokes don't usually just break.
the nipples wont have changed a thing, it's what you have done while changing them, more then likely you have crossed a spoke over in the wrong place.
look at your other wheel then look at the one with the problem and it will be pretty obvious, it's not witch craft
look at your other wheel then look at the one with the problem and it will be pretty obvious, it's not witch craft