Diy Bicycle Wheel Truing Stand

Aug 17 2013 i think bicycle wheels are beautiful.

Diy bicycle wheel truing stand.

My homemade wheel truing stand. Not everyone has an expensive truing stand. If the wheel is fixable it generally looks good but has a wobble you can expect your local bike shop to charge 20 30 to true it using professional equipment like a truing stand for the perfect line and roundness. I think bicycle wheels are beautiful.

You can also buy a professional truing stand for about 50 to 80 or the gold standard park tools stand like this for 300. Article by donna smith. This project requires no welding no special tools or equipment and can be made with materials easily available from a hardware store and with basic hand tools. This video demonstrates how to true a bicycle wheel using simple wooden tools that i made in my workshop.

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. For the home mechanic a shop made truing stand will do the job just nicely and costs a fraction of what one will cost in a bike shop. This is just simple truing and assumes t. The tools are based on plans found in chapter 3 o.

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. So i show how to true bicycle wheels with the wheel mounted on the bike. My homemade wheel truing stand. 2 1x4 6 2 1x4 24 14.

Build a precision bicycle wheel truing stand for less than fifty bucks seriously it will be as precise as any high end stand.