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How To Align A Bicycle Wheel

Written by drbob on January 22, 2010 – 6:03 pm -

Truing a bike wheel is one of those things you may never have to do, or never want to do, in that case take your wheels to you local bike shop and have a trained experienced mechanic true your wheels. Aligning bicycle wheels, step by step Building and truing wheels is a very difficult thing to do, it can take years to learn, but your wheels may only be a little out, or your no where near a bike shop and you need to straighten a wheel, its good to know what to do in those circumstances. How to Start To build and true wheels properly you need a lot of expensive tools, such as: 1. Spoke key 2. Truing jig 3. Dishing tool but if you only need to do a little straightening all you’ll need is the spoke key and you can do the work in the bike frame,... more


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