For the final, precision truing, you can essentially turn your frame into a truing stand by attaching a pair of zip ties to the stays, directly opposite the rim. Trim the extra strip so that they are just slightly longer than needed to touch the rim, and then rotate and slide them until they don't quite touch but are as >close< as possible. Just like with a real truing stand, they will rub a spinning wheel to indicate any wobble, high spots, or out-of-round spots. The dish part is done by eyeball, by looking for equidistant space on either side of the tire between the forward part of the chainstays. Or you can use a rule of some sort. That part isn't as precise as using a dish tool, but it actually gives better results anyway because sometimes bikes aren't built perfectly symmetrical anyway.
I think I have some ties attached to a frame somewhere. I can take a snapshot in the daylight tomorrow, if you need. On Sunday, January 17, 2016 at 5:31:49 PM UTC-7, Joe Bernard wrote: > > What is "the zip-tie method" ? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
