rear wheel not running true?

rodriquez

hi there

just wondering if anyone could offer me some advice please? i've recently purchased a set of planet x ct45 wheels which I'm really happy with. When I was moving my bike out of the way this morning I noticed that the rear wheel was sticking a little in the brake pads. I loosened the brakes and even took the wheel off and put it back on. It looks to me like the wheel is not running true. I don't understand how this could have happened as I was out on it yesterday and it was fine. One of the kids may have knocked the bike over without me noticing but even something like that shouldn't affect the alignment of a wheel ? would it? could it be just something simple that I can fix myself or do I need to send the wheel back?
anyone have similar experience to this?
thanks

blobbie

One of these should do the trick

http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/ie/en/s?q=spoke%2Bkey

Youtube vid http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcZ1jjB_AdQ

Shouldn't need the fancy stand

detones

rodriquez wrote: »

hi there

just wondering if anyone could offer me some advice please? i've recently purchased a set of planet x ct45 wheels which I'm really happy with. When I was moving my bike out of the way this morning I noticed that the rear wheel was sticking a little in the brake pads. I loosened the brakes and even took the wheel off and put it back on. It looks to me like the wheel is not running true. I don't understand how this could have happened as I was out on it yesterday and it was fine. One of the kids may have knocked the bike over without me noticing but even something like that shouldn't affect the alignment of a wheel ? would it? could it be just something simple that I can fix myself or do I need to send the wheel back?
anyone have similar experience to this?
thanks

Probably not worth sending back yet. Spokes may just need a re-tensioning. Bike shop will do for a tenner (less than postage back to uk) . Would not attempt to repair myself. If problem persists send back to PX as may be a manufacturing fault.

rodriquez

great - thanks for the feedback, so it's just a tweak of the spokes that's required, think i'll drop it into my LBS for that job

kumate_champ07

this one here is sold in some local bike stores, I build alot of wheels and it does the job well

http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/ie/en/bbb-turner-spoke-key-twister-btl15/rp-prod3976

Muckers

There may be an easier answer to this. Make sure the rear wheel is sitting centrally between the 2 seatstays. Your issue happened to me on a spin last week and all that was required was to loosen the quick release skewer, align the wheel centrally and re tighten skewer.

rodriquez

Muckers wrote: »

There may be an easier answer to this. Make sure the rear wheel is sitting centrally between the 2 seatstays. Your issue happened to me on a spin last week and all that was required was to loosen the quick release skewer, align the wheel centrally and re tighten skewer.

I did try that because initially I thought that was the problem - i've taken the wheel off and spun it on it's skewer and to my eye it is spinning 'off' at a certain point

because it's a 45 mm rim I think i'd prefer to let an expert sort it out - I wouldn't even know how to get at the spoke adjusters anyway