Bicycle Wheel Truing Stand Diy

This video demonstrates how to true a bicycle wheel using simple wooden tools that i made in my workshop.

Bicycle wheel truing stand diy.

Quick and basic procedure for truing straightening a bicycle wheel at home. Snug up your spokes first and then look for the wors. But the fastest cheapest way to fix it is to do it yourself with just a leg strap and a spoke tool. We ll take an inexpensive but solid performance spin doctor truing stand and add threaded indicators to make it much more effective faster to use more durable and light years more precise.

You can also buy a professional truing stand for about 50 to 80 or the gold standard park tools stand like this for 300. Seriously it will be as precise as any high end stand. Does not require a stand. If you really like truing wheels.

Build a precision bicycle wheel truing stand for less than fifty bucks. Or the 10 solution to warped wheels. But to do that i need a truing stand and i didn t want to spend the money for an expensive tool i won t be using so often. But being an aircraft technician with lots of experience balancing 120 000 rpm turbine discs i thought i should be able to true a humble bike wheel.

Foldable design folds away to take up less space. Not everyone has an expensive truing stand. This is just simple truing and assumes t. So i show how to true bicycle wheels with the wheel mounted on the bike.

Versatile the stand is able to check bearings along with balance wheels.