Someone paid more attention than me to my rear wheel and noticed there was some offset to the… left? right? can’t remember now. I’m considering having someone adjusting the wheel dish if it’s simple and cheap enough. And I mean real cheap, because I’m very budget conscious at the moment.
Reasons for adjusting this would be… that now it’s wrong. And that I do feel like it slightly leans to one side and this could be the reason. And that I might want to take my road beast to a trail but not without putting on the widest of the tyres it can take, and the offset hinders that plan.
Many thanks!
EDIT: spokes count is 21, in groups of 3. Stupid Italian designs…
The wheel is not centered to the frame. In other words, it is closer to one chainstay/seatstay than the other. I don’t remember which one. I think it is because it was built for an asymmetric frame, or maybe it is a normal wheel on an asymmetric frame, but I don’t think Giant made any of those. I didn’t take a closer look.
I suspect the fix involves a complete new set of spokes and rebuilt, though.
I mean, it isn’t rocket science, but without the right tool the result isn’t going to be perfect, and I don’t trust myself for doing this. Or maybe I just don’t want to do it…?
Ok, looks like conventional stainless steel spokes. This should be a pretty straight forward job for any decent bike shop. If you trust your friend $300nt is a good deal. So long as the nipples aren’t seized is should simply be a matter of adjusting the tension.
I’d recommend this guy as he’s work is great, only deals with wheels, but will be more than $300 but likely less than $1000
If you were here, or I were there, I would fix it for you for free.
Lacking a proper Dishing Guage, if you want to check if the wheel is dished properly (the rim is centered on the axles), just take the tire off or at least deflate it, rest the wheel rim on 2 glasses/jars of the same size and measure the distance to the locknut/endcaps face as per photos below. Flip and do the same. The measurements should match.
With Campy G3 it is important to make adjustments gradually and treat each drive side spoke pair as a single entity (match tension). Above all, be sure to keep the bladed spoke from twisting with an appropriate tool.
If it IS out of center, but true (straight) it is most likely that the non drive side spokes have lost tension.
Yeah, I know him. He’s the one who gave me the quotation xD
It’s a good deal, but considering that this is an easy job difficult to screw, if I can get it done for 200, I’ll keep the 100. Yeah, I know, but as I said, I’m counting pennies these days.
Man, define here!
Nice workaround, still not ideal for this tedious job.
Yeah, I totally get that.
Huh… didn’t think of that, but yeah, I guess that could be a possible explanation. And yes, it is trued, other than the dish not being adjusted.
For normal wheels you adjust the nipple thing at the rim, to adjust the tension of each spoke and this moves the wheel rim to one side or other, and you keep doing this until the wheel is true. If you want to get really anal you can use a dial indicator to dial it in but this isn’t necessary. You can actually do this by turning the bike upside down, remove the tire and inner tube.
If it’s one of those exotic wheels, there’s plenty of bike shops around Taipei who might be able to fix it.
