Wheel issue.

Inquitus

I broke a couple of spokes 2 weeks ago and was away on business, just picked up the wheel with new spokes and truing and fitted it to the bike.

The wheel now runs far closer to one of the rear forks that the other, see below (bad) picture.

Is this because whoever trued it did a poor job? and before I head back to the bike shop is there anything else likely to have caused this please?

Tnx a mil,

Inq

ashleey

Back wheels have different spokes on drive side to the other to account for the chain driving the wheel on one side of the hub. Maybe you didn't notice it before. The tyre and rim should look centred from above. If it spins without wobble when rotated by hand on freewheel and then also when driven by chain it is ok. What brand are the wheels? It shouldn't look ridiculously one sided.

Greyspoke

First off, are you sure that the wheel is in the dropouts properly - it's very easy to close the quick release with the axle not fully into the dropouts on one side or the other.
If only a couple of spokes were replaced then there's no way that the whole wheel should be so off-centre in the frame. If the wheel was completely rebuilt then it could have happened.

Inquitus

I took it back as I am going for a spin in the morning, this time I took it in on the bike, he trued the wheel again and its fine now. Not sure how it happened, though the loss of the 2 spokes had bent the wheel a good whack out of true in the first place.

LCRC_BAX

The dishing of the wheel is off in the picture above. In this case the non-drive side spokes were tensioned too much and pulled the wheel off centre towards the LH chainstay.

Raam

It took me a minute to actually see the tyre in the picture. I thought I was looking at the floor through the chainstays, d'oh!

triggermortis

Raam wrote: »

It took me a minute to actually see the tyre in the picture. I thought I was looking at the floor through the chainstays, d'oh!

Me too, until I realised it's a coloured tyre..

easygoing39

All's well thats ends well so!

levitronix

Worst dish i ve ever seen on a wheel, id take the wheel somewhere else i know you say its fixed now, but get someone to check tension because i guess your going to break more spokes, anyone who rebuilt a wheel that badly has to be useless !

Holyboy

The shop in question may have actually dished the wheel to center, it could be the frame or more precisely, the dropouts that could be out of alignment!
If the shop that sold the bike dished the wheel to the center of the frame (as I would do) before sale it may not actually have been exactly centered between the OLNs (if you follow me).
Most mass produced frames and forks are very poorly finished these days, I had a Cervelo carbon bike awhile back that I couldn't get the rear mech to shift properly on, so as I tried to narrowed down the possible problems I put on the dropout alignment tool and they were SO far off I was actually shocked, it turned out it wasn't the actual problem but for such an expensive bike I expected better quality!

So in short(or long) maybe the shop didn't do bad.